About 4 years ago I began suffering from the most hideous periods. Terrible terrible pain and sickness, resulting in my having to call into work sick. Just hideous but never any heavy bleeding. I was put onto various pain relief medication and pushed into having the coil but, for my own reasons, I avoided any kind of hormonal help. The tablets they put me on worked ok, they made the pain manageable. But it didn't cure it and I still had shooting pains in my legs, terrible diarrhoea etc.
I was desperate and went private for a consultation. After a thorough check up she referred me for a laporoscopy. She said my organs felt free so I probably didn't have the kind of endo where your organs become stuck together. She said it was possible that it could be the kind where it's like a dusting but still painful.
I've had various scans and all look normal.
After literally years on the waiting list, last year my name finally came to the top. FOUR times I prepared for surgery and FOUR times it was cancelled the night before or even on the day of.
I was in an incredibly difficult job situation and this put a lot of strain on it so I ended up telling them to postpone. I never heard from the hospital again.
However...... one month about 6 months ago I forgot my tablets on holiday. And I didn't get severe pain? So the next month I tried not taking them. 6 months on, after 4 years of excruciating pain, I'm not finding that although still uncomfortable and painful, they are in the realm of more normal pain? I don't feel sick as much either. Shooting pains have gone.
Am I cured? I'm 38 and also getting a lot of hot flushes. My period is lasting longer etc. could this be peri menopause?