Inflammatory conditions

[luthien]

Has anyone with endometriosis (post surgery, pre surgery or just managing it) been diagnosed with other inflammatory conditions? Or just diagnosed with inflammatory conditions?

I'll explain:

I've been seeing my physio post surgery for lower back problems and inbetween surgeries for other things such as upper back / shoulder aches, neck aches, neck tension, knee pain, ankle pain and maintenance of my Thoracic Outlet Syndrome. She think's I'll need further treatment / diagnosis by a specialist as after taking to a few of her colleagues including doctors they feel all my conditions are linked to my Endometriosis. I also have high white blood cell counts, sometimes low haemoglobin concentration and low ferritin, my thyroid antibodies are high. I agree with my physio; there's strong indicators for autoimmune problems causing bone / muscle / joint pain. I've not had a CRP test for inflammatory markers. We have looked up Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; we think my symptoms match these conditions but cannot work out whom we would see to diagnosed these,

Has anyone else had similar problems and what did you do? What specialist were you referred to?

For reference; here's one of the studies / research carried out on Endometriosis and autoimmune conditions - which create inflammatory conditions. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/312...

[EmTee]

Hi luthien .

Sounds like quite a challenge you're experiencing. From what I understand Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue both fall under the Rheumatology field.You may need to ask your doctor to refer you to have either or both looked into but I'm not sure there is a particular 'test'. It's more a case of ruling out other possible conditions first which can take time.

Hope this helps.🙂