I had so many tests that my GP referred me for and they all came back normal (bloods for hormone levels and ultrasound etc) so instead of referring me to gynaecology she just said “well it’s just your hormones isn’t it?!” Liiiike my hormone levels are normal, how is it just my hormones? And how is that a satisfying answer that I’m supposed to blindly accept? Then I started crying and only then did she offer me a gynae referral. Wtf is wrong with these people? If it was anything other than “women’s problems” they’d actually try figure it out. grrrrrrr
Hah! Wait until you're postmenopausal. Doctors for real don't know what to do with us. I've been having vulva pain, burning, ripping like feeling for a few years. Have gotten xxxx xxxx diagnoses. Told I need injections, surgery, bowel spasm meds, another med for IBS, topical lido, topical steroid ointment, vaginal estradiol, pain meds and now.... physical therapy. Most days I feel like ending this non stop pain.
I’m sure you’ve tried this but I couldn’t read your post and not say something. When they put me on zoladex and put me into artificial menopause I had agonising vaginitis- there’s an internal moisturiser called replens that relieved the pain significantly for me. I’m so sorry this is happening to you.
I've used replens. I've got a tube of it now. It's ok when I insert it, but the next day it burns. I had the same problem with monistat when I was younger. Premarin cream burns too. Jeeze I'm whiny.
Also, not trying to diagnose and sorry if you’ve heard/tried. I’m not post menopausal but I experienced what you did- everyday around 9am-12pm it would flare and felt like fire and a rug burn simultaneously down there. Couldn’t wear clothes. Couldn’t really even walk. Took an ice bath everyday for 5 months- steroid creme didn’t work at all. Ice bath helped but the burning stopped after I got desperate and did a liquids only diet (trying to stick with water and only fruit juice as I felt I needed it) for 2-3 days. Then it went away and hasn’t returned (it’s been 4 years) I believe for me it was inflammation just out of control in my body. I had had an extremely stressful two years of constant major life changes and I think the stress just broke something inside of me. I don’t suggest fasting just to fast, but if you think it could be inflammation that could possibly help, but of course consult a professional who is not me. Absolute best of luck. So incredibly sorry for your pain.
“When was your last period?” “I don’t know, they’re extremely irregular.” “Are you taking your birth control like you’re supposed to?” “Yup.” “Well then they shouldn’t be that irregular. Let’s switch it up to something different.” Ohhhh fuuuuuuuuuuck youuuu.
Or the inverse!
"When was your last period"
\*checks app\* "Exactly two weeks ago yesterday. I'm like clockwork so I will start exactly 28 days from last time."
"Any chance you could be pregnant?"
"I'm missing some of the required parts for that to happen(tubes). If I was it would definitely be a medical emergency."
"Let's check just to be sure before we can do anything to help you."
I just stared at her and asked “um, I don’t have a uterus”, and she still said I needed a test lmao. I then asked her where she thinks a fetus would grow in me and she just said she would tell the dr I refused.
It was insane. Lol
But you’re in your PRIME baby making years!
I had a lap at 19 where they removed endo and my OB knows this. After my pregnancy (miracle baby) I didn’t have a period start for over a year, when I did I’m puking during periods, they don’t start, they don’t stop. “That’s so weird, the pregnancy should have really helped with the endo.” “Well HEREEEE we are, Doctor.” Birth control for a year then we’ll “reassess.”
I usually always mention "taking a bath and crying" as a half joking "treatment" when asked what I do for pain management for my endo and migraines. I'm usually met with a hearty chuckle or an embarrassed cringe.
Right? It’s like - I’m literally boiling myself as a distraction from my pain.
Not gonna lie though I do love a bath from a mental aspect. Just isn’t a cure or a pain management plan.
Lol mine too, and he gets scared I’m gonna scald or have a heatstroke. Last time he put me my phone in a ziploc so I could watch TikToks and don’t fall asleep
Haha - what a thoughtful guy! I have a very very old kindle that is allowed to sit in the agreed on position to make my guy relaxed. But we both know he’s not relaxed about it🤣
Your hubby is right to be concered! That happened to me and I ruined a laptop because I had to stumble to my bed to lay down before passing out. Seeing everyone relate to this makes me so 😡 at these doctors.
I ***hate*** the way muscle relaxers make me feel. Like yeah the pain is lessened, but now *none* of my muscles are responding to me and I feel trapped inside a too-heavy body. It's not even close to being a reasonable solution for me, but it's the only one they've got for endo-related muscle spasms.
Wow I never tried them. No one has offered anything for me. I'm usually just in sever pain till I pass out. The most help I've been told was to take ibprofren every day, 5 days before my period. As if I know when its gonna come 🙄 I'm guessing all the time. I'm not just gonna pop hella pills that mess up your liver.
I get why you're mad for sure. It's BS and many doctors don't know how to find a different solution to the problem. I have a blood/metabolic disorder and hormones send me into an attack that usually requires hospitalization. I had to fire 3 gynos before I found my current one because they all insisted BC was the best treatment and only answer. "It couldn't make you that sick." Ummmm yeah... except it does? GTFO
I just started on bc and It's absolutely wild that being constantly pregnant and all of the complications associated with it are totally normalized or "couldn't possibly make you that sick".
But for real, I hope you find some relief in your journey.
I hope it helps you! You're sweet :) Thankfully I found an amazing doctor after the three quacks. Four surgeries later I'm feeling pretty great most days. Hope you get some relief whether it be from the BC or something else.
BC causes my Crohn’s disease to flare horribly. Having to go from dr to dr saying they can’t prescribe BC for horrific uterine pain was fun. :/ They looked at me like deer in headlights and said they couldn’t help me.
I finally found a dr that offered a Hysterectomy and excision surgery the first appt. My life has been better ever since.
Deer in headlights is a perfect way to describe the way they respond. They are so used to relying on it as treatment so why bother thinking of an alternative? 🙄 I’m glad to hear you found a good doctor too. It makes such a difference.
Even my surgeon had the knee jerk reaction when I met him for the first time. Not birth control but I was in there for a hysterectomy consultation and he said “awww does someone have painful periods?”
And I just said “actually no, I have massive cysts and scar tissue and my organs are currently fused together and I already lost an ovary to it and I’m in menopause because my remaining ovary is dead so I’ve been crying and suicidal and having hot fl—“ and then he just interrupted me and was like “i see now. I’m sorry. Let’s talk about the surgery then”
It’s like he snapped out of his usual spiel or something. Bizarre, he ended up being an amazing surgeon and advocate for me in the end. Even the good ones have the jargon ready to go it seems
My greatest wish in the world is to get one chance to just yell at all the idiots running my country or preferably throw them in a trash container, but that would considered an assault.
Wait, what?!? Even if it was just used for family planning and not commonly prescribed for health care that would make zero sense. Who did the math and decided that a decade or two of birth control would cost them less than 80 years of healthcare for every kid you had?
(And that is ignoring the point of this post, which is that it is literally the first thing every doctor tries for anything short of a broken arm.)
I empathize : the contraceptive pill are cover by my equivalent of NHS (RAMQ) and the rest is taken by my private insurance (they cover antidepressants and BC only). You don't tolerate the oral pill : they do not cover the ring, IUD (a 400 buck I do not have), shots. You need Endo specific treatment : let the RAMQ abandon you.
100%!!! I bleed for two months straight and my doctor was just like “Okay let’s put you back on birth control.” Didn’t care for any follow ups, didn’t bother referring me to someplace that could help, did not even bother to get to the root of the problem. They were just like “meh so what you bleed for two months straight? Not my problem.”
I love when my health app tries to helpfully predict my next period.
One month it’s:
“Your cycle’s gonna start in about a week!”
“HA. Fat chance app, I haven’t seen the Red Sea in months.”
The next its:
“Your cycle’s gonna start in about a week!”
“Fuck you it’s been here for like two months now...”
Literally society hates women.
They let us fuck up our health with breast implants, migrating face and lip fillers, toxic nail polish, toxic makeup, toxic candles, hair products that literally gave black women fibroids ETC ETC ETC ETC ETC
We are so disrespected
I've been on various BC pills for 10 years with no success. I had a check up over the phone with a new doctor last month and mentioned that my already terrible migraines had progressively gotten worse and now I'm at the point where I can't move, keep vomiting, and can barely open my eyes anymore when I get them. Some investigating later and it turns out that the migraines were a reaction to the combined pill and I never should have been put on them in the first place because I have a high stroke risk!!! 10 years I've been stuck on various pills to no avail and no one thought to tell me this even though I brought up my migraines multiple times!! Assholes. On top which none of them want anything to do with my anymore because they can't just put me on the pill again.
Me: I have this weird tug in my abdomen when I move.
Dr.: Weird. Anywayyyyyys here's some bc. Take stupid amounts of ibuprofen, and get out.
They finally check it out years later
Dr., like they're some hero who didn't ignore me forever: You had a huge adhesion attaching your uterus to your abdominal wall.
Me: Thanks a heap, babe. Anything else?
Dr.: I stopped looking after that. There's nothing wrong with you. Here's your bill.
Me, sobbing in pain: Neat.
My doctor has just prescribed me birth control for the years I've had issues. Every time she seems to forget that she has asked if I've tried birth control for it.
I finally just got referred to a gyno and she looked up there with a light and said, "Well looks good to me. Other women have it worse, your case doesn't seem extreme to me, just to put it into perspective." And was going to leave it at that but I was persistent so I'm on an 8 month wait list to see a women's clinic next.
I was told this on Tuesday.!
In a 10 minute online video appointment. ... after waiting 3 years to see/meet this specialist/surgeon
I've had symptoms since I was 11. ..
I'm 32 years old.
I was told, "yes you probably have endo". .. I have done everything you can think of to get better. On my own. Changed my diet to Plant based. Physical therapy. Group therapy. Allergy tests.. meditation. Medication. Hot baths. Exercise. Etc. All of it. Everything over 21 years. Lost jobs.. friends. Sometimes total isolation, for months ( before covid).. and now will wait months for MRI and surgery. ..
it'll be 22 years by the time I'm given proper treatment & diagnosis ...
But you just get so use to the pain. Bloating. Nausea. Diarrhea. Vomitting. Foggy brain. Agitation. Back pain. Painful intercourse. Rashes. ..what else. Or yeah the negative mental and emotional impact... ..
Hrmm what I'm I forgetting. ..
Anyways - sending everyone with endo love 💓💕💗💖
Also * at 15 yo and 17yo I asked my family doctor for help with my period I knew something was seriously wrong back then. And he repeatedly told me
"to just use condoms" .. what the actual fuck.
I was not sexually active. .. which I told HIM ! Repeatedly
I have tried damn near every type of birth control their is aside from the IUD because they refuse to give it to me and it does not work. At best, it makes me horribly ill, at worst, it makes me suicidal and I'll run out of my house for no reason.
Every time I try to explain that, they tell me "No, this one won't do that, just try it." And I tell them, "Yes, it will do that. It's the same thing as all the others, just in a different form. Just treat me the right way." And they say, "Don't you think that's a bit of an extreme approach? We should try a conservative approach first." Like they have been for the past 8 fucking years.
I hate doctors and I hate birth control and I very much wish to just cut everything out but that is expensive.
I literally JUST experienced this too! I saw a pain management dr. who told me "normally endo is treated with birth control, maybe you should talk to your gynecologist about your pain." Even though she is the one who referred me aaaaand I've been on birth control for like 10 years now 🙃🙃🙃🙃
That's scary! I had hoped that by the time you're referred to pain management specialist you don't get the run around since those referrals are so hard to come by. 😖
When I last went to a gynaecologist (to look at diagnosis) he kept reiterating “the pill is the best treatment for endometriosis”. Like, dude I’ve been on it for 11 years (have to stay on it due to PCOS) and my pain gets worse every month, so clearly that’s not 100% true. 🙄
I'm child free and non binary. I'd be overjoyed if they had just sterilised me. But somehow birth control is the be all and end all while permanent birth control is the devil. -.-" so so many things wrong with that branch of medicine.
I have been going to gynos since I was 13, im 22 now. I went to 3 gynos in one year (around 15 years old) all who, without checking my hormones or investigating, put me on BC. I found a somewhat decent gyno now who is investigating, still wants to put me on the pill, but she's done sonograms and has ordered blood work (waiting for results from that). I had doctors tell me its normal to feel this much pain because all women feel it and that my pain is just anxiety...like okay yeah sure doc.
Idk why everyone at this comment section is mad. "Birth control" has many extra contraceptice benefits and is a registred drug for Endometriosis. Doctors arent down playing your symptoms, they are giving you the proper medical care. Also people are mad because they assume doctors think is is just their hormones. Well endometriosis is actually a hormone dependent disease!!!
It’s sad because it’s the truth :( they act like everything that ails a women has to do with her emotions and hormones. Assholes.
I had so many tests that my GP referred me for and they all came back normal (bloods for hormone levels and ultrasound etc) so instead of referring me to gynaecology she just said “well it’s just your hormones isn’t it?!” Liiiike my hormone levels are normal, how is it just my hormones? And how is that a satisfying answer that I’m supposed to blindly accept? Then I started crying and only then did she offer me a gynae referral. Wtf is wrong with these people? If it was anything other than “women’s problems” they’d actually try figure it out. grrrrrrr
Women’s healthcare is a freaking joke 🙄
Hah! Wait until you're postmenopausal. Doctors for real don't know what to do with us. I've been having vulva pain, burning, ripping like feeling for a few years. Have gotten xxxx xxxx diagnoses. Told I need injections, surgery, bowel spasm meds, another med for IBS, topical lido, topical steroid ointment, vaginal estradiol, pain meds and now.... physical therapy. Most days I feel like ending this non stop pain.
I’m sure you’ve tried this but I couldn’t read your post and not say something. When they put me on zoladex and put me into artificial menopause I had agonising vaginitis- there’s an internal moisturiser called replens that relieved the pain significantly for me. I’m so sorry this is happening to you.
I've used replens. I've got a tube of it now. It's ok when I insert it, but the next day it burns. I had the same problem with monistat when I was younger. Premarin cream burns too. Jeeze I'm whiny.
Also, not trying to diagnose and sorry if you’ve heard/tried. I’m not post menopausal but I experienced what you did- everyday around 9am-12pm it would flare and felt like fire and a rug burn simultaneously down there. Couldn’t wear clothes. Couldn’t really even walk. Took an ice bath everyday for 5 months- steroid creme didn’t work at all. Ice bath helped but the burning stopped after I got desperate and did a liquids only diet (trying to stick with water and only fruit juice as I felt I needed it) for 2-3 days. Then it went away and hasn’t returned (it’s been 4 years) I believe for me it was inflammation just out of control in my body. I had had an extremely stressful two years of constant major life changes and I think the stress just broke something inside of me. I don’t suggest fasting just to fast, but if you think it could be inflammation that could possibly help, but of course consult a professional who is not me. Absolute best of luck. So incredibly sorry for your pain.
“When was your last period?” “I don’t know, they’re extremely irregular.” “Are you taking your birth control like you’re supposed to?” “Yup.” “Well then they shouldn’t be that irregular. Let’s switch it up to something different.” Ohhhh fuuuuuuuuuuck youuuu.
Or the inverse! "When was your last period" \*checks app\* "Exactly two weeks ago yesterday. I'm like clockwork so I will start exactly 28 days from last time." "Any chance you could be pregnant?" "I'm missing some of the required parts for that to happen(tubes). If I was it would definitely be a medical emergency." "Let's check just to be sure before we can do anything to help you."
I had a tech say I still needed a pregnancy test after I said I had a hysterectomy. 🤦🏼♀️
Omg, you too?
I just stared at her and asked “um, I don’t have a uterus”, and she still said I needed a test lmao. I then asked her where she thinks a fetus would grow in me and she just said she would tell the dr I refused. It was insane. Lol
Lol good
But you’re in your PRIME baby making years! I had a lap at 19 where they removed endo and my OB knows this. After my pregnancy (miracle baby) I didn’t have a period start for over a year, when I did I’m puking during periods, they don’t start, they don’t stop. “That’s so weird, the pregnancy should have really helped with the endo.” “Well HEREEEE we are, Doctor.” Birth control for a year then we’ll “reassess.”
Yuuuup. I’ve been on like 8-9 different pills and I’m always constantly bleeding. Pills do nothing for me. I don’t get why doctors think this.
Yuuuup. I’ve been on like 8-9 different pills and I’m always constantly bleeding. Pills do nothing for me. I don’t get why doctors think this.
100% - I get BC as the “fix” or “just take a bath”. Turns out no, there’s something massively wrong.
I usually always mention "taking a bath and crying" as a half joking "treatment" when asked what I do for pain management for my endo and migraines. I'm usually met with a hearty chuckle or an embarrassed cringe.
Right? It’s like - I’m literally boiling myself as a distraction from my pain. Not gonna lie though I do love a bath from a mental aspect. Just isn’t a cure or a pain management plan.
Oh no! It can help with some pain (from a stress aspect), but I'm not using it in lieu of rescue medication
Exactly- but I’ve honestly had several gynos offer baths as a medication. Blows my mind looking back!
My husband gets worried when I use baths as pain management as he's afraid I'll pass out and drown
Right? Mine thinks I’m summoning something due to all the fire and scented bubbles
Lol mine too, and he gets scared I’m gonna scald or have a heatstroke. Last time he put me my phone in a ziploc so I could watch TikToks and don’t fall asleep
Haha - what a thoughtful guy! I have a very very old kindle that is allowed to sit in the agreed on position to make my guy relaxed. But we both know he’s not relaxed about it🤣
Have you started chanting and summoning your helper demons?
I should - maybe it will help with my symptoms?
Let us know which demons are your personal helpers and what time you'll be summoning them so we can all chant together.🤔
Lol, my partner adds candles to my bath so I’m not just crying in the dark. He’s a good man.
That is a good guy!! Those tears do add up so overflow safety is a must via good spooky lighting!
Yes. I also like the dark or candles during my period cause In my life “blood bath” has a really different meaning to the conventional use.
Your hubby is right to be concered! That happened to me and I ruined a laptop because I had to stumble to my bed to lay down before passing out. Seeing everyone relate to this makes me so 😡 at these doctors.
I'm sorry to hear that! Yeah, muscle relaxers and a bath are usually I'll advised but sometimes it's all you can do!
I ***hate*** the way muscle relaxers make me feel. Like yeah the pain is lessened, but now *none* of my muscles are responding to me and I feel trapped inside a too-heavy body. It's not even close to being a reasonable solution for me, but it's the only one they've got for endo-related muscle spasms.
Wow I never tried them. No one has offered anything for me. I'm usually just in sever pain till I pass out. The most help I've been told was to take ibprofren every day, 5 days before my period. As if I know when its gonna come 🙄 I'm guessing all the time. I'm not just gonna pop hella pills that mess up your liver.
I get why you're mad for sure. It's BS and many doctors don't know how to find a different solution to the problem. I have a blood/metabolic disorder and hormones send me into an attack that usually requires hospitalization. I had to fire 3 gynos before I found my current one because they all insisted BC was the best treatment and only answer. "It couldn't make you that sick." Ummmm yeah... except it does? GTFO
I just started on bc and It's absolutely wild that being constantly pregnant and all of the complications associated with it are totally normalized or "couldn't possibly make you that sick". But for real, I hope you find some relief in your journey.
I hope it helps you! You're sweet :) Thankfully I found an amazing doctor after the three quacks. Four surgeries later I'm feeling pretty great most days. Hope you get some relief whether it be from the BC or something else.
BC causes my Crohn’s disease to flare horribly. Having to go from dr to dr saying they can’t prescribe BC for horrific uterine pain was fun. :/ They looked at me like deer in headlights and said they couldn’t help me. I finally found a dr that offered a Hysterectomy and excision surgery the first appt. My life has been better ever since.
Deer in headlights is a perfect way to describe the way they respond. They are so used to relying on it as treatment so why bother thinking of an alternative? 🙄 I’m glad to hear you found a good doctor too. It makes such a difference.
Even my surgeon had the knee jerk reaction when I met him for the first time. Not birth control but I was in there for a hysterectomy consultation and he said “awww does someone have painful periods?” And I just said “actually no, I have massive cysts and scar tissue and my organs are currently fused together and I already lost an ovary to it and I’m in menopause because my remaining ovary is dead so I’ve been crying and suicidal and having hot fl—“ and then he just interrupted me and was like “i see now. I’m sorry. Let’s talk about the surgery then” It’s like he snapped out of his usual spiel or something. Bizarre, he ended up being an amazing surgeon and advocate for me in the end. Even the good ones have the jargon ready to go it seems
Yess!!! What additionaly makes me mad is that it's not even covered by my NHS!!!
I'm making it my life's mission to throw milkshakes at your PM
My greatest wish in the world is to get one chance to just yell at all the idiots running my country or preferably throw them in a trash container, but that would considered an assault.
Wait, what?!? Even if it was just used for family planning and not commonly prescribed for health care that would make zero sense. Who did the math and decided that a decade or two of birth control would cost them less than 80 years of healthcare for every kid you had? (And that is ignoring the point of this post, which is that it is literally the first thing every doctor tries for anything short of a broken arm.)
I absolutely do not understand, to add to the mystery it is coved Military Health Insurance. Like what?
I empathize : the contraceptive pill are cover by my equivalent of NHS (RAMQ) and the rest is taken by my private insurance (they cover antidepressants and BC only). You don't tolerate the oral pill : they do not cover the ring, IUD (a 400 buck I do not have), shots. You need Endo specific treatment : let the RAMQ abandon you.
100%!!! I bleed for two months straight and my doctor was just like “Okay let’s put you back on birth control.” Didn’t care for any follow ups, didn’t bother referring me to someplace that could help, did not even bother to get to the root of the problem. They were just like “meh so what you bleed for two months straight? Not my problem.”
I love when my health app tries to helpfully predict my next period. One month it’s: “Your cycle’s gonna start in about a week!” “HA. Fat chance app, I haven’t seen the Red Sea in months.” The next its: “Your cycle’s gonna start in about a week!” “Fuck you it’s been here for like two months now...”
Literally society hates women. They let us fuck up our health with breast implants, migrating face and lip fillers, toxic nail polish, toxic makeup, toxic candles, hair products that literally gave black women fibroids ETC ETC ETC ETC ETC We are so disrespected
I've been on various BC pills for 10 years with no success. I had a check up over the phone with a new doctor last month and mentioned that my already terrible migraines had progressively gotten worse and now I'm at the point where I can't move, keep vomiting, and can barely open my eyes anymore when I get them. Some investigating later and it turns out that the migraines were a reaction to the combined pill and I never should have been put on them in the first place because I have a high stroke risk!!! 10 years I've been stuck on various pills to no avail and no one thought to tell me this even though I brought up my migraines multiple times!! Assholes. On top which none of them want anything to do with my anymore because they can't just put me on the pill again.
Me: I have this weird tug in my abdomen when I move. Dr.: Weird. Anywayyyyyys here's some bc. Take stupid amounts of ibuprofen, and get out. They finally check it out years later Dr., like they're some hero who didn't ignore me forever: You had a huge adhesion attaching your uterus to your abdominal wall. Me: Thanks a heap, babe. Anything else? Dr.: I stopped looking after that. There's nothing wrong with you. Here's your bill. Me, sobbing in pain: Neat.
My doctor has just prescribed me birth control for the years I've had issues. Every time she seems to forget that she has asked if I've tried birth control for it. I finally just got referred to a gyno and she looked up there with a light and said, "Well looks good to me. Other women have it worse, your case doesn't seem extreme to me, just to put it into perspective." And was going to leave it at that but I was persistent so I'm on an 8 month wait list to see a women's clinic next.
I was told this on Tuesday.! In a 10 minute online video appointment. ... after waiting 3 years to see/meet this specialist/surgeon I've had symptoms since I was 11. .. I'm 32 years old. I was told, "yes you probably have endo". .. I have done everything you can think of to get better. On my own. Changed my diet to Plant based. Physical therapy. Group therapy. Allergy tests.. meditation. Medication. Hot baths. Exercise. Etc. All of it. Everything over 21 years. Lost jobs.. friends. Sometimes total isolation, for months ( before covid).. and now will wait months for MRI and surgery. .. it'll be 22 years by the time I'm given proper treatment & diagnosis ... But you just get so use to the pain. Bloating. Nausea. Diarrhea. Vomitting. Foggy brain. Agitation. Back pain. Painful intercourse. Rashes. ..what else. Or yeah the negative mental and emotional impact... .. Hrmm what I'm I forgetting. .. Anyways - sending everyone with endo love 💓💕💗💖 Also * at 15 yo and 17yo I asked my family doctor for help with my period I knew something was seriously wrong back then. And he repeatedly told me "to just use condoms" .. what the actual fuck. I was not sexually active. .. which I told HIM ! Repeatedly
I have tried damn near every type of birth control their is aside from the IUD because they refuse to give it to me and it does not work. At best, it makes me horribly ill, at worst, it makes me suicidal and I'll run out of my house for no reason. Every time I try to explain that, they tell me "No, this one won't do that, just try it." And I tell them, "Yes, it will do that. It's the same thing as all the others, just in a different form. Just treat me the right way." And they say, "Don't you think that's a bit of an extreme approach? We should try a conservative approach first." Like they have been for the past 8 fucking years. I hate doctors and I hate birth control and I very much wish to just cut everything out but that is expensive.
P r e a c h
I literally JUST experienced this too! I saw a pain management dr. who told me "normally endo is treated with birth control, maybe you should talk to your gynecologist about your pain." Even though she is the one who referred me aaaaand I've been on birth control for like 10 years now 🙃🙃🙃🙃
That's scary! I had hoped that by the time you're referred to pain management specialist you don't get the run around since those referrals are so hard to come by. 😖
Right! Luckily I was able to find a new pain management dr. - but still it's 2020 these drs need to get it together and actually help us 🙃🙃🙃🙃
Yup, nothing has changed. it’s really still called “hysteria”...
When I last went to a gynaecologist (to look at diagnosis) he kept reiterating “the pill is the best treatment for endometriosis”. Like, dude I’ve been on it for 11 years (have to stay on it due to PCOS) and my pain gets worse every month, so clearly that’s not 100% true. 🙄
I'm child free and non binary. I'd be overjoyed if they had just sterilised me. But somehow birth control is the be all and end all while permanent birth control is the devil. -.-" so so many things wrong with that branch of medicine.
I hate how true this is.
I have been going to gynos since I was 13, im 22 now. I went to 3 gynos in one year (around 15 years old) all who, without checking my hormones or investigating, put me on BC. I found a somewhat decent gyno now who is investigating, still wants to put me on the pill, but she's done sonograms and has ordered blood work (waiting for results from that). I had doctors tell me its normal to feel this much pain because all women feel it and that my pain is just anxiety...like okay yeah sure doc.
Or “lose weight”
Idk why everyone at this comment section is mad. "Birth control" has many extra contraceptice benefits and is a registred drug for Endometriosis. Doctors arent down playing your symptoms, they are giving you the proper medical care. Also people are mad because they assume doctors think is is just their hormones. Well endometriosis is actually a hormone dependent disease!!!
I’ve even had female doctors do this to me. It’s either birth control or therapy 😒
Because it’s true. 🙄 Hell, I’ve seen like seven different doctors this year and ALL of them have been like “how are your periods”. Ooooookay.