good luck tomorrow Judester!!!

Just wanted to wish you the best of luck with your scope tomorrow Jude........may they find and get rid of all the adhesions and endo there is.......and may you feel like a million bucks after this (well not right that day, but you know what I mean )

Please let us know how it went when you feel up to it......are you staying in or coming home tomorrow? What time is your surgery?

Big for you sister we'll all be rooting for ya!!

{{{Judy}}}
You will be in my thoughts and prayers as you head to the castle tomorrow. Your sisters will be with you in spirit.

Let us know how you're doing as soon as you feel up to it.

and keep us posted -- I'll be sending good healing thoughts and gentle hugs. I do hope this is the end of your pain.

Dear Judester,
I will keep you in my prayers and send many healing thoughts your way. I pray that this surgery marks the end of the road of pain and the beginning of a healthy life for you. Please keep us posted.
Love, Light, Blessings
Druid

Sending you healing thoughts and wishing you the best of luck on your scope. I hope this is the end of the long and winding "road" for you.
Carmel

Sending lots of 's and a big old your way!

You'll be in my thoughts and prayers Hon! Take care of yourself and keep in touch. I hope you are feeling much better very soon!

~ Lisa

Awww...thanks ladies for all of your kind words and encouragement. Special thanks to you Gidge for thinking of me, and posting this. You are so sweet to think of me while you are suffering so...

Well fasten your seatbelts... I couldn't believe it when I was told after the lap that I had a "considerable amount of active disease (Endo) in my abdomen." I truly expected the adhesions...but I really never believed that she would find the Endo especially now that I've had the LAVH/BSO! I will be seeing my doc in about a week and a half, and I do have a million questions for her I am to cut my hrt pills in half from now until then, and she has ordered me lots of rest. Apparently she did a lot of removal of both adhesions and endo...I guess that's why I'm feeling so tender. Oh and that has got to go...it especially hurts in my right shoulder-seems to everytime.

Its funny though, cause I vaguely remember my dr muttering something to another doc about a chocolate cyst. In my dreamy state I thought "I can hardly wait to tell my sisters that I have cysts covered in chocolate."

So we'll see...hopefully this will make me feel a whole lot better. How and why the endo returned is beyond me! I waited several months before starting hrt, and was having the old pains before that!

Thanks for all of your love and support for each and every one of you!

If any of my fellow Endo sisters would like me to ask her anything in particular, I can add it to my list, and ask her...she really seems to know her stuff.

{{{Judy}}}
I'm glad that you're home and resting and happy to hear that they didn't remove your sense of humor

So sorry to hear about the endo returning. I don't know anything about endo but I think I remember reading some posts here that it may be helpful to take progesterone with your estrogen, that it may help keep the endo at bay. Not positive on that, but you may want to look into it. Do you take progesterone as part of your hrt?

Sending s s s

Thanks Kim...'s right back at ya sweetie! I've been using some natural progesterone for months now. My gyn didn't seem to care one way or another (the previous one - ugh ) but I haven't talked to the new one about it yet...so we'll see. Thanks for thinking of that for me hun...I was taking Premarin 1.25...my new doc thinks that's too much considering my Endo history...

Dear Judester,
I'm so sorry that the awful endo has returned but glad that you at least discovered this and had the lap to help take care of things. When I was 29, (41 now) my doc first disgnosed me with endo. I had what they called the "chocolate cyst" on my left ovary and had surgery to remove both the cyst and the ovary. They said it was the size of an "orange" seems they like to use food to help us understand - lol. That marked the beginning of my journey into the land of hystersisters. From then on I had two D&Cs and then a lap in '99 for a lot of adhesions, the year before having my hyst. Amazingly, the endo seemd to only be found on that one ovary during that whole time. I had a large fibroid which caused lots of pain and bleeding and that was what led me finally to the hyst. I wonder if the chocolate cyst thing is a one type of endo or if it's just mentioned when the endo is found in a larger mass. I still have one ovary and I'm not taking any hrt, but have been wondering if I need although my urogyn has said no. He's checking for endo during my lap on Aug. 13. I surely pray that this marks the beginning of healing for you. So many of the sisters here are well versed in the HRT issues and endo so you know you will continue to have support from all of us. Keep us posted.
Love, Light, Blessings
Druid