Yes I had quite a few surgeries for endo, but it can and does come back.
I'm on IG and the women who pretty much have themselves defined by endo is shocking. I truly know it's a nasty disease, but once you've had your family, there's medication that does work.
I do have problems from endo but I truly believe that it shouldn't be the sole focus of my life. You have to look for the positives, as hard as it can be at times.
I'm lucky really that I grew up through the forum era & all that jazz. As it's allowed me to get a sense of what some people can be like. I think the most important thing with any illness is to look at any new symptoms as being independent from endo, until it's proven that it definitely is the cause.
The young girl who got grazes on her legs or had nose bleeds and convinced herself that her endo was possibly even on her brain (though it was conjecture, she got the usual PMS headaches many of us get.) really was the final straw in me trying to help people that way.
I can see why pain relief is needed, but when there was the oxycodone fad, I thought it had really gone way too far. As obviously you develop either addiction or tolerance, neither are nice. They pretty much convinced themselves that they were in pain constantly at a very high level, to justify the painkiller use.