Feeling it!

[Chellarella84]

Hi, after my discussion with Mummy1982 I have now booked in with my GP to push and see my specialist again. This week I have really felt it and feel like I am being pushed to my limits. My body is aching so much and I just want to cry. This site has helped me understand that what I have been going through isn't in my head. After my lap I was told that I just needed to have a baby and they would see me when my symptoms come back!! I didn't know what symptoms I was looking for until I read your blogs. I have been suffering in silence with tiredness, shooting pains, headaches. My partner said to me recently "there is always something wrong with you" (he didn't mean it in a nasty way) I thought I was being a hypochondriac.....maybe not. I feel so angry and upset all the time. The fact that since I was 21 I have been on and off depression tablets and to find out that my endo could be the cause makes me more upset. I wasn't given any information at the time of diagnosis.

I am sorry for ranting, I just feel I don't have anywhere to turn to at the moment. Can anyone help me with what to say to my GP, I don't want to go in ranting like a crazy woman but I need to get my point across. I went to see her recently and she was discussing lupus with me which has similar symptoms to endo, I cant get my head around that this was flagged up. My endo never came up in conversation apart from when I said we wanted to try for a baby in the near future.

Thank you in advance for any advice you can give me xx

[Mummy1982]

Hi hun.

I'm glad that you are making a appointment but sorry to hear you are suffering hun.

I would speak to your Gp about you previously having Endometriosis which is enough with your symptoms and your previous diagnosis to have a referal to a specialist.

I understand what you are saying about your partner unfortunately people who don't have endometriosis seem to struggle to understand it as there isn't a lot of awareness about it.

I don't know what you are currently taking for relief of your pain but I would try and discuss this with your Gp also as you will be in for a wait for your referal and then for the laparoscopy, it makes it all worse when your pain isn't under control.

I hope this helps hun and that you get the treatment thar you need xx

[Chellarella84]

Thank you so much for your advice. I am now collating some information to take with me to the GP. My partner is away the day I go to the GP but hopefully if I get to a specialist he will be able to come with me.