Joined: 14 Jul 2007 Posts: 7 Location: , Australia
Endometriosis...? Posted: 07-14-07 01:58am
I have had abdominal/pelvic pain on the
left side where my ovary is located for
about 3 and 1/2 months now and the doctors
have done numerous ultrasounds, urine
tests to check for infections, swabs, a
CT-scan and just about everything you can
think of to diagnose me with something
causing my abdominal/pelvic pain. It
started in early April 2007 when I was
diagnosed with a 4.6cm hemorrhagic cyst
that was bleeding into itself which ended
up rupturing in the first week of June
2007. I thought the pain was from the cyst
and so did my doctor and we thought that
the pain would go away but it stayed. My
doc recently had another CT-scan and
ultrasound done which came back normal and
has referred me to a physio therapist as
he thought I may have strained a muscle in
my back (I have had lower back pain - only
left side since early April too).
The physio said that I did strain a muscle
in the back and have given me light
exercises to do. I couldn't do some of the
exercises as I had too much pain on my
left side (ovary area). I went to the
physio again last Tuesday and told him
that it was too painful to do some of
these exercises and he felt around the
area on my left side where I have the pain
and after I nearly jumped through the roof
from pain as he pushed and rubbed, he says
that it looks like I have strained my
groin muscle. I would be happy if this was
my diagnoses, except my normal doctor is
going to refer me to a gyno and I'm seeing
the gyno in early August because my doctor
thinks I might have endometriosis. (I have
also had really painful periods and pain
with intercourse and bleeding between
periods and very irregular periods and
that while on the pill). My doctor and
another doctor at the practice that I go
to agree with each other that I have a lot
of the symptoms that’s pointing towards
endometriosis.
I had a brown discharge on Wednesday (11
Jul) and went to see my doctor on Thursday
(12 Jul) and he did a pelvic examination
and swabs as he thinks I might have an
infection. I have to see my doctor again
on Monday (16 Jul) to find out the
results. I had another follow up
appointment with the physio yesterday (13
Jul) and am in more pain today than I were
earlier in the week, he pushed down on my
"grown muscle" I supposedly strained and I
cried that much it hurt. I will be telling
my doctor about it on Monday (16 Jul). My
question now is. Could this groin muscle
pain be confused with the endometriosis or
the other way around? And does a person
have symptoms like painful intercourse,
painful periods, irregular periods when
it's only a strained groin muscle? Would,
if these symptoms you get with
endometriosis also be felt with a strained
groin muscle?