Awful pain shooting down my groin, my gynaecologist said it was vitamin b deficiency but my blood test has come back normal.......

[emlou12]

Any idea what this could be? Also I get random horrendous pain in my left side abdomen and back. Anything else I can try to help it I am already on 8 tramadol tablets a day. Are painful joints associated with endometriosis? Sorry for such a long post it's my first time on here and I don't know anyone else that has endometriosis. Thank you for any help in advance.

[sparkle22]

Hi I'm really knew to all this as well. Have you been checked for cysts? I had a cyst on my ovary and the pain was excruciating eventually that's how they discovered I had endometriosis. The only thing that comforted me at all was a hot water bottle. Tablets didn't seem to do anything but make me drowsy. Hope this helps a little xx

[stevieflp]

Hi - sorry to read what you are experiencing. I wont go into detail but I recommend you read a book called "Estrogen dominance" by Dr M Lam and also "Stop Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain" by Andrew S Cook". These two books alone will not only hopefully be an interesting read but will arm you for consultant discussions. You will see from the book on estrogen dominance that both endo and joint pain are thought to have the same root cause, just different symptoms.

Maybe your gynae consultant is possibly trying to go down all other avenues first before exploring for endo but an experienced consultant would not need to do that with such classic symptoms and it rather points to this person perhaps not being such a specialist. This is exactly why on average we all take several years before being properly diagnosed unless lucky enough to have a switched on GP and get to see an endo consultant. We often get told it is IBS, waterworks infections - all sorts - I don't think I have come across vitamin B deficiency before though, must be a not so common one :). Whilst the pains you describe could be caused by something completely different of course, they can possibly be attributed to endo, including endometriomas which are cysts.

I think I would seek an onwards referral to an endo specialist consultant rather than a gynae (OBS/GYN), or at least to a gynae who does specialise rather than generalise.

All best wishes x