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Is this an endo symptom?

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Does anyone else experience a pain like this; the best way to describe it is like a stitch pain but deep sharp and spasm like directly over the womb/ bladder area and can take your breath away at is sharpest? For me it can last a few hours and up to a whole day when it's at its worst, it comes and goes throughout the month including when I'm on my period, I am also aware of the pain when I wee. Years ago it was thought it was IBS related but a colonoscopy couldn't find a reason for it so I'm starting to think is it an endo symptom....I was told I had mild endo roughly 11 years ago and had a short course of Zoladex and after my last laproscopy 6 years ago was told no endo was present. So has my endo reared its ugly head again? Only a laproscopy will tell me this I know. Since January of this year I have noticed that I have been getting this pain much more frequent, It is something I have had on and off at different times of the month since the original diagnosis. I am 43 my cycle varies from 20 days to 30 days and I also have chronic mid cycle pain lasting 5 to 9 days per month with this pain being completely different to the ovulation pain. Any ideas ladies?

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Thank you for replying Lindle. Yes I have noticed my cycles getting shorter as have my actual bleeding days but I have also noticed I now have strong PMT never used to get this in the younger years and I have one child who is almost 12 and my symptoms have gradually worsened since having him.

I have read the post you suggested with great interest and I identified with many of the things mentioned. At the end of 2013 I was put on the list for a hysterectomy to cure me of my ovary pain but as we know it's not an endo cure so after 5 months on the list and without a surgery date I took myself off the list that's when I tried to mirena which was the most uncomfortable thing ever to be inserted but after 7 months of what felt like being stabbed by it with each period I had it removed and that pain has stopped.

I can see a visit to the GP coming yet again.

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