What do you make of this?

[IRememberSoIDo]

Hi there,

Just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on this. Dd was 13 a couple of months ago and has had her period for about 18 months. She's been pretty regular since the start and is in or around the 28 days. Some months she's had a lot of pain and cramping and others have been fine. This month has been the worst by a mile and she had to change her pads very regularly for the first couple of days. She had awful pains which went with ibuprofen. However, we're now ten days on from the start of the period, which lasted five days, and she's still having waves of really bad pains in the same place and got sick last night one time from it. I had a hysterectomy last year at 39 as I had severe endometriosis, fibroids and adenomyosis. My problems actually only started after dd was born and although I do remember having pains as a teenager I don't remember anything like what dd has had over the last 10 days. Has anyone come across anything like this with pains lasting after the period? If it hadn't settled down by next week I will bring her to the GP just to get it checked.

Sorry hit post too soon, wanted to finish with thanks for any thoughts!

Take her to the GP now. This isn't normal and should be checked ASAP.

Endo does tend to run in families, not hereditary but I think my Mum had it, I definitely have it. Mine did start in the early teenage years where I couldn't sleep through the pain and no over the counter meds would help.

I was just "diagnosed" as "severe dysmenorrhoea" so basically painful periods in the late 80s. They put me on the combined pill much to my Catholic mother's horror when I was 15 to control the pain which massively helped to control the symptoms. I don't know how you or your poor DD would feel about that route.

Later I had a laparoscopy in my mid 20s which confirmed endo. They don't like to do laps though due to the risk of adhesions as you probably well know.

Thank you both for your responses which I really appreciate. I'm in ireland so different set up so I'm going to ring my GP shortly as he has a short Saturday service and if he can't see her I'll go to another "out of hours" service that we have to be in the safe side as I am a bit anxious and while there's a very good chance it is linked to her cycle I don't want to dismiss other possibilities.

I feel for you and your dd op. Painful periods really do impact your life.
I've always had really painful periods, often feeling sick with it.
A couple of years ago I had a kidney stone. The pain is very similar. For me the pain was worse (needed morphine immediately - rushed in at A&E) but the stone got stuck and blocked my kidney.
At first they did a scan, realised I had fibroids and (wrongly) said that was what was causing the pain.
Do get it checked out if it carries on.