Just another endo victim...
My mom, her sister, and her mom all have endo so I was next in line. I was actually surgically diagnosed at age 16 when the scar tissue from the endo took over my appendix and caused me immense pain. I was put on a three month BC and that worked for about 5 years. Started having bad periods again so I tried 6 months of the Lupron Depot shots. They honestly didn't bother me a bit. When I came off of them it took me 6 more months for my body to regulate my cycle. My husband and I have been TTC since. That was 14 months ago. My periods are downright awful. Painful, bleeding heavily, a lot of clots. I'm almost to the point of giving up but there's a part of me that just can't yet. I am going to start looking at ways to improve our chances that don't involve the fertility clinic because we just can't afford thousands of dollars on treatments and surgeries that may not even work. Im 23 and I know I have at least a little more time to keep trying but the three women in my family before me have all had to have hysterectomies before age 28 because the endo was so bad. On top of that I was diagnosed with high grade cervical dysplasia 4 months ago and had to have a freezing of my cervix. I haven't had my follow up Pap smear (supposed to go next month) so I can't even be sure that it's gone. What's a girl to do at this point? I see success stories all the time and I just pray that one day, I am one of those stories. Until then, I'm just another victim of endometriosis.
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