How to bring it up to your Dr?

Question

Hi, I have been having heavy, irregular periods since I was 11. I had seen several dr during my teenage years that just wrote me off. A couple years ago I went to get a check up after passing out from the pain. ( Which I don't just experience pain during my period, I experience it 95% of the time its just worse on my period). That dr. Mentioned to me endometriosis. She sent me to see a on/gyn who told me I was to young for it. I was 19 at the time. So I stopped seeing him and have just kinda been powering through it. But it's getting worse. I am experienced pain with sex and after for days, pain is just awful, I'm on BC and periods still super heavy and I predicable, nauseous all the time ( which is my normal), experience old blood bleeding sometimes 3 weeks before my period and after.i started using the flex disc which I have to change 2 times a day plus a few pads. Before the disc I would go through 2-3 boxes of pads a month.  Could it be something else? Idk any thoughts and advice would be great! Thank you for you time😁

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You really need to see a better doctor. Continue until you find one who listen to you.

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Keep advocating for yourself. You know your body better than anyone, even a doctor! You know the pain and discomfort you’ve endured. 
I started my period at 12, and from the start it was terrible. Super heavy and bad cramps. When I hit 14 or 15 years old, I legit would have my period for three months nonstop. Then it wouldn’t show up for three months. The main issue was the heaviness of it. But once I turned 20, the pain and cramps became much worse. I went on birth control at 21. That helped my period to not be so heavy most of the time, but the cramps have only gotten more and more horrendous. I’m now 31, and 6 months postpartum. (It took me 3 years to get pregnant after intense hormone therapy) Once my period restarted two months ago, the pain came back with a vengeance. I’ve also been struggling with cyst pain for a year. Honestly, it’s probably been more than a year of me getting cysts, it was only a year and a half ago that I found out about it. But it would explain some of my pain for sure. 
I went to my obgyn two weeks ago and told him how I think my cyst is still there causing a lot of pain and my periods are just horrendous. At first, he wrote me off. I then continued to explain to him that this has been ongoing since I was 12, I have pain during sex, I’m essentially incapacitated during my period, I’ve fainted before because of the pain...and he was still skeptical of me! He was like “oh well women get cysts and cramps all the time...but we’ll do an ultrasound to check.” And sure enough the cyst is 5cm and still there, and my ovary is so enlarged from the cyst it’s 9cm. My other ovary is only 2cm. And he suspects endometriosis and immediately said I need surgery. He apologized to me too for not listening initially, which was nice. So now I’m just waiting for them to call me to set a date for my surgery.

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Your story is exactly like mine, I was 18 when things started to really change because since then I've been having rectal bleeding during my period; I've been to 7 doctors and they all finished with "so severe cramps and heavy bleeding?" Because it's "a giant chain reaction" so if you fix one symptom you apparently fix it all which isn't the case for me and quite frankly probably not for most people either. What leaves me a little puzzled is they told me to take ibuprofen for 2 weeks during my period which thins your blood making you bleed more so how was that gonna work? I hope you find someone that listens and takes you seriously. You're never too young. Oh and I was 11 as well.

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