sounds really odd. I have a high pain threshold as well. But when it gets up there then it gets harder to manage the longer it goes on.
So its like a new pain?
I would hate to be in that much pain, i prob wouldnt be able to sit here and type and sit up straight ill tell ya that much. What would the dr tell you? To go to the ER? Sucks you have to go through all this stuff with drs and crap its gotta be a royal pain, Hopefully you get it figured out soon. Hope your doing ok

do u have your appendix???

umm... it wouldn't be an ectopic because you and .steve haven't been having sex, right?

but umm... that sounds pretty serious, hon. You might want to call.

I am so sorry you are going through this! I know that sometimes I just wish that they would cut off my legg! When do you go see your specialist? ? I agree with you on the pain killers but sometimes you have to do what you have to do and dr's are so good about writting out prescriptions or calling something a syndrome because they don't have the real answers. Have you tried a hot water bottle on the area. I hope that you find some relief somehow! Are you still bleeding? I do kind of agree, I would at least call the dr. I don't think you are a whimp!

It's like period pain only much much worse.
Although to be honest at the moment it's dropped to a discomfort (around a 1.5-2)

My doctor would just tell me to take pain killers - that he'd prescribe me co-codamol if paracetamol wasn't strong enough and to hold out until I see the endocrinologist on the 28th June.

Definately not ectopic - I haven't had sex this year yet lol

I handed my appendix over to the medical field in 1992
by the time I complained of pain it was severely infected with gangrene and it burst during the operation but before they had actually removed it.
I have a gorgeous 6" scar from that!

and yup still bleeding. I'm on 20mg progesterone (5mg is birth control) per day and I'm still bleeding through it lol - yup at the moment I can laugh - I'll cry later. As of today we are on period day 64!

nov 28 - dec 07 - 10 day period - 73 day cycle.
feb 09 - mar 05 - 25 day period - 48 day cycle.
mar 29 - now - period!

dec 20th and 27th were when I had my faint positives then I had negatives on 22nd, 28th and also 1st jan

That sounds awful...did the pain come on suddenly, or has it been gradually building?

I posted this in my thread too, but, I'm so confused about progesterone. That is what My dr rx me to start my period But in a higher mg. Maybe, yours is too high and thats why your still bleeding? I'm reaching here. Because honestly, I have no idea.

Is there any way to get your appt with your endo moved up?

the pain has built up over the past few days.

I've written up a brief explanation in your post about progesterone but no too high a dose won't lead to bleeding.
(for anyone wondering why go read Christy's post )

It's too little progesterone which is causing me to bleed (or too much estrogen depending on how you look at things).
For now this dosage is stopping the bleeding from being heavy.
And it'll have finished in time to clear my system before I see the endocrinologist guy.
So he'll be able to get a clear view of what my hormone levels are and hopefully balance them out again.
As you can imagine I am loathe to control my cycles with birth control because this further reduces any chances of pregnancy spontaneously happening (although I hear sex is also involved in that )

A worrying factor is that sustained high levels of estrogen often lead to an increased risk of conditions such as osteoporosis.
women who never have a full term pregnancy are at a greater risk.
This is believed to have connections to the low estrogen, high progesterone state of pregnancy being sustained over an extended period.

Sex does help in the baby making process.

I have considered going back on birth control and just royal screwing it up just to see what would happen. It's worked for other people!

Yeah, I'm on 400mg a day. (2 200mg tables at bed). But I can see why you would want to have things, at least kinda, straightened out by the time you see the endo.

I really hope your are feeling better soon. Since you are on this med you wouldn't have ovulated right? So there's no way its a cyst. Other than that, I don't really know. Sorry, I wish I could be of more help.

I have no idea what is going on with your poor body. I'm really sorry you have to go through all this stuff.

I don't think I've ovulated since I got my faint positive (which my doc and I believe to have been a blighted ovum) back in dec.
I think I ovulated on dec 13 (my bday lol) and I haven't since which is why I think my cycles are so messed up.

I understand why my doc is giving me progesterone - and from his position I agree with him.

but what I hope the endocrinologist will do is prescribe a course of hormones that will stimulate the follicles (a bit like they do when you do egg donation) and cause a cycle to begin from that point instead.

I hope you feel better.