I've had endometriosis since age 11 and struggled with extreme pain and severe mood issues because of it. When I first started menstruating, I knew something was wrong, but the doctors told me I would have to wait a few years to see if things ever straightened out. They never did. When the gyno found out I'd had a heavy period for 5 months straight, she put me on lupron for 6 months. The only problem I have from it as of now is memory loss. It's a big inconvenience, but I deal with it. From the time I hit puberty, I had a thickened uterine lining, swollen to 5 months gestation all the time and I experienced mourning sickness just about all the time as well. During my teenaged years, I tried nearly every birth control pill on the market and they made things worse for the most part. The only one that ever remotely helped was the progestin-only pill. Even that didn't help much. I gained weight rapidly and uncontrollably regardless of what I did to prevent it for my entire adolescence. Years later, I'm taking bioidentical progesterone. In the first few weeks of taking it, I lost 20 lbs.
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I've had endometriosis since age 11 and struggled with extreme pain and severe mood issues because of it. When I first started menstruating, I knew something was wrong, but the doctors told me I would have to wait a few years to see if things ever straightened out. They never did. When the gyno found out I'd had a heavy period for 5 months straight, she put me on lupron for 6 months. The only problem I have from it as of now is memory loss. It's a big inconvenience, but I deal with it. From the time I hit puberty, I had a thickened uterine lining, swollen to 5 months gestation all the time and I experienced mourning sickness just about all the time as well. During my teenaged years, I tried nearly every birth control pill on the market and they made things worse for the most part. The only one that ever remotely helped was the progestin-only pill. Even that didn't help much. I gained weight rapidly and uncontrollably regardless of what I did to prevent it for my entire adolescence. Years later, I'm taking bioidentical progesterone. In the first few weeks of taking it, I lost 20 lbs.
February 17, 2013 - 7:44pmThis Comment
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