My daughter who is 27 now had awful menstural pain from the time her periods started at 10 years old. Her GP prescribed antiinflammatories and later the pill, both which helped only a little. At the age of 6 she had had tonsillitis for the first time and subsequently suffered regular bad strep throat usually lasting many weeks and requiring many courses of antibiotics. It took nearly 20 years to get her tonsils removed! In the meantime the pain with her periods got worse and worse and she also started to experience abdominal bloating. At Uni she was constantly visiting the GP or hospital due to tonsillitis or abdominal pain. Endometriosis was mentioned and she had an ultrasound scan which was inconclusive, though she was told her uterus was retroverted. The Mirena IUD was prescribed and fitted. This was about 3 ½ years ago and did help with her pain but she has continued to suffer with bloating and occasionally very sever pain and gradually more and more unpleasant symptoms which could be the result of mirena; fatigue, back and neck pain, lack of mental clarity etc. Her current GPs did ests and they all came back normal so now they want to send her for counselling... basically telling her it's all in her mind. I have been reading about endo, and this is what crossed my mind; I've read that it is normal for endometrial cells to migrate to other parts of the body, but that normally a woman's immune system deals with them. My daughter however had been suffering very badly with inflamed tonsils before, during and after she began menstruation and I am wondering if this stress on her immune system meant that it was not able to deal with missplaced endometrial cells? This is the reason I came to this web page, to find out if anyone had noticed a link between a condition such as chronic tonsillitis and endo?
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My daughter who is 27 now had awful menstural pain from the time her periods started at 10 years old. Her GP prescribed antiinflammatories and later the pill, both which helped only a little. At the age of 6 she had had tonsillitis for the first time and subsequently suffered regular bad strep throat usually lasting many weeks and requiring many courses of antibiotics. It took nearly 20 years to get her tonsils removed! In the meantime the pain with her periods got worse and worse and she also started to experience abdominal bloating. At Uni she was constantly visiting the GP or hospital due to tonsillitis or abdominal pain. Endometriosis was mentioned and she had an ultrasound scan which was inconclusive, though she was told her uterus was retroverted. The Mirena IUD was prescribed and fitted. This was about 3 ½ years ago and did help with her pain but she has continued to suffer with bloating and occasionally very sever pain and gradually more and more unpleasant symptoms which could be the result of mirena; fatigue, back and neck pain, lack of mental clarity etc. Her current GPs did ests and they all came back normal so now they want to send her for counselling... basically telling her it's all in her mind. I have been reading about endo, and this is what crossed my mind; I've read that it is normal for endometrial cells to migrate to other parts of the body, but that normally a woman's immune system deals with them. My daughter however had been suffering very badly with inflamed tonsils before, during and after she began menstruation and I am wondering if this stress on her immune system meant that it was not able to deal with missplaced endometrial cells? This is the reason I came to this web page, to find out if anyone had noticed a link between a condition such as chronic tonsillitis and endo?
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