After speaking to my local GP and being told by her that there may never be a good time to have the surgery with my mum's cancer. I relied on my friends and had surgery on Monday with only two friends knowing. As my mum is sick and as she was having chemo this week I had to lie to her and tell her I was working interstate otherwise she would have been hurt that I didn't stop in and visit her. So Monday I had my surgery. It was supposed to last one hour but lasted three, after getting sick from the anesthetic and getting high on the endone pain killers I was given for the pain, I spend the week in bed at my best friend?s house. I saw my doctor yesterday who told me that my endo was bad and all intertwined in my bowel. So 6 months of Zoladex injections is what he believes is the best option and after my next AF, i am back to my Dr for the first of 6 Zoladex injections. So I drove from my friends house to visit my Mum and nearly passed out with the pain, sitting up is not a very nice experience, but each day as more of the gas moves and my stomach returns to normal, (it is very swollen at the moment) I will feel back to normal.
I am glad the surgery is over and I can look forward to getting on with my life (so I hope) without endo being in the way. Had anyone been on Zoladex and had any positive or negative reactions to it. I hear that hot flushes may be a problem
Dabs - I would definitely look at the naturopath option. I have had friends with endo and others with PCOS who have had great success with diet and supplements through specialised naturopaths. Most are claimable on Private Health Insurance and as I don't think there is anything to lose by trying it out - if it doesn't work for you then maybe look at other options.
I have personally had success with naturopaths for hormonal related weight issues after the birth of DD. I will definitely be doing the same if I have the same issues after this bub.
Dabs, I'm so glad to hear that you did end up having the surgery. Not good that they found the endo, but must be a relief for you to know what is going on and have a plan of attack for it?
Can't comment on the Zoladex sorry. I'm sure there are some girls on here who will be able to help you out with it though.
Don't forget to keep us updated on your progress.
Dabs this probably doesn't relate to you, but I thought I'd post in case on the rare chance it did.
I had bad periods and ovarian cysts since I was 19. It was so bad I couldn't function the day I got AF. AF got so bad that in May this year at 30 years of age that I was vomiting on AF day. One month later I went in to a doctor who was skeptical of my request of a blood glucose fasting test but gave me a blood glucose test.The test showed I had high blood sugar and diabetes. I ended up in hospital the next week due to that test for diabetes type 1 with dehydration.
I have been on insulin ever since and since starting the insulin my bad periods went away to like they were before I was 18. I had type 1, a slow forming type that instead of developing in childhood slowly develops in your 20's and often doesn't show up in fasting blood glucose tests. It doesn't show up because slow type 1's can have good basal insulin ( the insulin that lasts all day) and bad meal insulin (the insulin that lasts 1 hour after a meal. To test for slow type 1 a HBAC1 test is required as it shows an average of blood glucose over 3 months unlike the fasting which doesn't show the post meal time blood sugar levels.
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