Can't say my endo was caused by tampon use as I have never found them that great and so have only used them on the rare occasion....

Certainly interesting reading though.... kinda glad i have not been a fan of them ........because, if they do cause all the problems that have been mentioned in this thread...... I can only imagine how much worse my endo could have been..... as it is, its just about as bad as it can get and that is without the use of them.......

Scary!!

I have also read that endo is genetically passed on...... that's why it affects more than one generation it can also affect cousins... so if your sister has it but you don't your daughters can still have the potential for it being passed on in recessive genes IYKWIM?? This is how I believe mine came about as my first cousin has also suffered from endo terribly but I was not aware of this until I was diagnosed as people don't tend to talk about endo openly unless they are directly affected about it and with people who are also...... its seems to be kinda tabu IYKWIM....

I can only hope that my daughter will not suffer the same problems I have had with TCC and pain, fatigue etc. It certainly an argument for TCC earlier in life and not putting off having kids in favour of career, mortgage or both...... I wish that we had started earlier but thems the breaks also.... We seriously started trying when I was 27 and I was not sucessful in having DD till I was 30 and have been TCC for last five years again....

Well enough about me .....