A year today from my last op...

[lifewithendo]

I cannot quite believe a year has passed since my last op! Its sad to say i haven't noticed any real difference in symptoms/pain relief, if anything I'd say I've got worse symptoms and new ones for that matter. I'm not entirely sure if they are all endo related, my problem is I've just kinda been getting on with them and not told my GP. I did however go back to the my doctors for the pains which haven't changed and they sent me back to see the gyne who did my previous op, actually think I've seen him twice and both times I wasn't happy. He told me that he couldn't understand why i was in so much pain when the endo he removed was only minimal, he doesn't agree that I'm in so much pain from that and thought there could be another underlying health issue and wanted me to go onto early menopause to see if they was anything else. I wasn't happy with what he was saying and knew that it didn't matter how much endometriosis you have as it makes no difference to whether you have a small amount or a large amount! Which got backed up when i asked for a second opinion and got refereed to a bsge center in October, again they gave me the option to go onto early menopause all though they agreed it would more than likely is just the endo causing the pain but by doing that i may get some relief but i wasn't happy to proceed so i never. They don't want to operate again as they said its unlikely that's its come back that fast and with the risks of an operation so said to see me in 3 months time and see where to go from there. Agreed the main thing is managing the pain and my fertility as i want to become a mum desperately however not in a relationship at the moment I was told that going back on the pill or having the coil fitted may help me in the meantime but I'm still in two minds...i just think I'm not sure i want to put my body through anymore side effects and then of course its when i come of them the time my body would take to go back to normal. They basically said there is no cure at this moment in time for endometriosis and its just trying to manage the pain which they only said about over the counter medications which don't help! I knew that of course but when someone sits and says basically there's not a lot we can do, well it just hurts...safe to say there was a few tears that day. I know there is a few options i could take but i just don't think i am happy with them so i went back to my gp and asked for stronger pain relief which again i didn't really want to do but i got prescribed dihydrocodeine which most of you may know is an opiate drug but thought anything is worth a try for when i have really bad days but guess what they haven't really done me any favors I've only taken them a handful of times but they gave me no relief

There isn't a lot point to this post but thank you if you got this far of reading it, I'm just thankful of such a great community on here and its nice to know I'm not the only one. Hope everyone's pains aren't too high today xxx