I had surgery twice for endo. Once when I was 17 and again when I was 25. I was told I could not get pregnant without medical intervention. Well, I got pregnant at 18, about a year after my first surgery.
The endo grew back over time and had to have surgery again 8 years later. It has been 6 years since I last had the surgery. I Have flair-ups every now and then and feel pain like I had prior to having the surgery, but no where as bad as it was before.
The way I understand endo is that it is really just a fluke thing re whether or not it will grow back. Some women have success after one surgery, some women don't.
Yes, endo can not be diagnosed unless they go in. But when they do go in they can remove it then.
As far as pain, ask your gyno for either darvocet or annaprox. My dr was always very willing to give it to me when I needed it. He knew I did not abuse it and was in pain.
One thing I have found is that my male gyno who I have been with since I was 16 is so much more sympathetic, understanding and caring than some of the women drs GP's I have been to for yearly physicials. I quit seeing my gp and either go to my gyno for all female problems (and other things, if I am there to see him and I have ear pain, I get him to check it for me) or I go to a specialist (ENT, Internal, etc.) One woman dr I went to even alluded that my pain was the result of something not making a "connection with my body to brain". To me that sounded like telling me I was crazy. I think women drs who have not experienced painful period/ovulations/endo/PCOS, etc do not understand because they have their periods and they are not "bad". Just my opinion !
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