3rd lap approaching..

[Redkitten]

Morning, this time next week, I will be (hopefully) in hospital waiting for my excision surgery. It has taken 2 previous laps, to get a diagnosis than I have known for over 22 years!

Feeling a lot more anxious this time round...

[plotments]

HI

At last your getting somewhere......22 years is a long time to be waiting for a diagnosis but I understand how much of a struggle it is to get it.

I hope all goes well for you at lap and treatment sorts your symptoms out. I'm waiting on 3rd lap for bowel endo and I know I'm anxious already and I haven't even got a date yet!!!

Easier said than done but try not to get too worked up over op you have done it before so you know what to expect and can prepare better for it ....is there something in particular that is making you anxious about op ?

take care and best wishes

[EndoJaz in reply to plotments]

Wishing all the best. It’s horrible when you know there is a problem but it doesn’t get taken seriously. I waited 30 years for my diagnosis although I wasn’t aware of endo until I was diagnosed but I knew it wasn’t normal and can’t believe it took so long. It makes me so angry and sad. I am recovering from my latest treatment so am being positive and hoping it won’t return yet again! Good luck x

[Redkitten in reply to EndoJaz]

Thank you...how you feeling? I know the anger, I have been told that only option for me to conceive is IVF and due to my age it would need to be private. Just feel that if i had been taken more seriously 20 years ago, my wish for a family might have been easier.

But no point dwelling on what you can't change. Just focus on getting well and living my life. 🙂

[plotments in reply to EndoJaz]

Thanks for reply

It is so frustrating when you hear so many women have struggled to get diagnosed

I hope your treatment has been successful and your recovering well

sending you lots of positive thoughts

take care xx

[Redkitten in reply to plotments]

I think possibly the pandemic is making me more anxious and also knowing that I will be in hospital overnight. I am hoping it will help and I can actually live my life now. 🙂

[EndoJaz in reply to Redkitten]

Yes I started my family young and had my first at 21. 2 years later decided to try for the 2nd and that took 2 yrs. I am just fortunate that I decided to have them young or I probably wouldn’t have any. I feel I have wasted years fighting for answers and am so angry about all the school days missed and drs telling me it’s in my head etc. It’s such a awful disease. I am just so glad they have removed it again this time. One week on and it still hurts on the right where it was removed but going to take it easy and give myself time to heal properly. I was very stressed before the op too but to know it went well meant so much. Good luck x

[plotments in reply to Redkitten]

I had to stay in overnight when I had my second lap....to be honest I felt recovery was a lot easier being left still in bed instead of having a bumpy car journey home.

The pandemic will play on your mind but the hospitals have extra precautions in place to keep us all safe. I hope all goes well and your able to live your life when fully recovered

take care