Thanks Tricia for your info. Endometriosis seems to be very hard to
understand.
Tricia wrote:
> Hi Bonnie....
>
> You are not the first person I've seen post in here about continuing to
> have endo problems post hysterectomy.
>
> Typically, endo tends to feed on estrogen (although in anecdotal
> situations on here I have heard of women having their endo respond to
> progesterone rather than estrogen). You may not have been having a
> menstral cycle in the sense of bleeding but I would guess from what you
> have described that you may have been having the hormone fluctuations
> associated with a menstrual cycle. Abdominal pain, back pain, and IBS
> are all things I have heard other women on the group mention in the
> past.
>
> If you do a google (or similar) search on endometriosis and sup****t you
> should be able to find both Heather and Carey's websites which have a
> lot of information in them, including I believe links to official
> medical sites, etc. Unfortunately I don't recall their URLs right off
> the bat.
>
> Sorry I can't be of more direct assistance.
>
> Tricia
>
> Bonnie wrote:
> > I recently underwent abdominal surgery for a bladder suspension and
> > removal of
> > right ovary due to cyst. Once in surgery It was found that I had
severe
> > stage IV
> > endo and adhessions. My OB/GYN removed the ovary and fixed my bladder,
> > but said
> > that the endo was on everything he also removed it.
> >
> > I don't fully understand having edno since I had a radical
Hysterectomy
> > 7 years ago
> > and everything was removed but my right ovary.
> >
> > I was having severe abdominal and back pain for the past year in
> > addition to IBS.
> > I have seen so many specialist that I now wonder if the endo has been
> > causing all
> > my problems all a long. Any info about endometriosis would be
> > appreciated.
> >
> > All the info I have found has to due with menstral cycle. I have not
> > had a menstral
> > in 7 years.
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