Endometriosis surgery 2 months ago. New rib pain

[faye89]

I was diagnosed with endometriosis, following diagnostic laparoscopy in 2015 where they removed the endometriosis from my ovaries, bowel, POD and uterus, they inserted the mirena coil at the same time. I also had adhesions at this stage.

I had a reoccurrence in 2016. Was put on danazol, but that didn't help hugely. I was getting bladder symptoms too. They finally agreed to repeat a laparoscopy (new hospital and surgeon). This was done 2 months ago at the end of December 2017. They found endometriosis on the bladder so removed, a cyst on my ovary, released my ovaries and bowel as adhesions had formed fusing them together.

I recovered from this slowly, I ended up with pneumonia- but more because I picked up a viral cold from work. The coughing delayed healing, but I finally managed to go back to work after 4 weeks off.

Since that I've been doing well. The bladder symptoms are much improved, I still experienced about 4 days of pelvic pain (which was the normal level for me).

I started bleeding 72 hours ago, first time since the surgery, I had some pelvic pain but nothing unusual. 48 hours ago I developed a stitch pain in my left side, right under my rib. Which has continued to get worse. Im unable to take a full breathe in, and i've been taking pain killers in high doses.

I'm worried that could this be endometriosis related? or would it be unlikely as its my left side? I had a lap so recently. I didn't have these symptoms pre lap, so Im unsure how detailed they would have looked at my diaphragm?

I had my 8 week follow up 2 weeks ago, and I was doing so well I was discharged by gyne. I'm worried to go back to my GP for this if its something so simple as a pulled muscle. But equally Im worried to just leave it. Ive had to miss work now for 2 days related to the rib pain, is it likely to go away on its own or should I be doing something proactive about this?

[Catness]

I personally feel any new symptom you should get checked out by the GP. It’s very easy to dismiss something as an endo symptom but then again, it could be something else entirely. Better to go and be told ‘you’ve just pulled a muscle’ then not go and worry or not know about the true cause xxxx