Hi Linda, hope your daughter is doing alright with her infection.

Mumzword, When is your date for surgery? goodluck with it all. Hope you are pain free very soon.

My story, I was only recently diagnosed wtih Endo, though we had suspected that I've had it for awhile. I had painful periods as a teenager, irregular and heavy with the usual clots. Was put on all of the 'basic' pills according to my GP, and in the end was sent away with a prescription for painkillers.
I saw a gyno, who told me that I had symptoms and family history, but was too young to 'have it, as you don't get it until you are 25' he sent me away and told me to go back and see him when I turned 25, and he would then operate on me to remove my endo!

I recently had a lap to investigate why we have been having trouble with TTC #2, and was then told that I have endo. FS said I don't have the typical chocolate cysts, but have sheets of it behind and in front of my uterus, around my ovaries and little spots all over the place.

I had problem periods for years until I found out I was pregnant with my DD, then after she was born, and AF returned, they were absolutely normal, no pain whatsoever, not even a need for panadol, and they were regular!

I'm currently on Synarel for 3 months ( only have about another 7 weeks to go) then we start on IVF.

My mum had it bad when I was younger. She had a hysterectomy at 31. It was everywhere and they initially diagnosed it as cancer and gave her less than 3 months. Obviously they found out they were wrong, and did the hysterectomy and she ended up with a double colostomy (which she no longer has)because it had spread that much.

Nic