I get horrible horrible pains 98% of the time when I have to "bm". 😖😫😡 o find a super hot bath and the good old Mary Jane( marijuana )is also a game changer for myself. Most of the time that combo takes care of the pain. I've also been on opiate painkillers for the last 9 years(prescribed by doctors for 9 yrs) but I am almost weaned off those completely. I've had 3 laposcopy in the last 9 years and I have asked to looks by my bowels but he said it's a huge risk to go in that area. It's been 12 years of daily pain. Started really having problems when I was 18. I live in a small town where there is one clinic so all the drs work together. Well I had every test done, cameras in every hole, drank a lot of nasty chalk stuff it all came back negative. They called me a faker drug seeker depressed attention seeker was told I had ibs chrones colitis diverticulitis and whatever else they could think of. The only thing I hadn't had done was a laparoscopy. So I had that done after four years of hell because I had no idea what was happening Then I woke up from surgery and the doctor had told me they burned off six adhesions. Then a year later another six and a few years after that I had another one but the dr. said he never saw anything. I think he missed something. And only 1 out of around 20-25Drs.(that's including all the er visits)apologized and said sorry we never believed you. I have now moved to a different community with different doctors and I will see what they can do for me. I got bumped up from a two year waiting list to see the gynaecologist so I lucked out big time. I am now 31 with no children not really sure if I want children. I was asking my doctors back home for a hysterectomy for the last five years but they would say I was too young and I might change my mind about children. But now I have been reading a lot of people's stories and now I am worried that a hysterectomy would not cure everything. sorry for the long long babbling. All us women can do is just keep fighting and listen to your own bodies because you know better than any doctor what you feel like inside. XO XO to everyone.

yes! Gut health has been a huge part of my struggle. I have a lot of adhesions and scarring on my bowels and each month...they bleed and cramp. It produces symptoms like ibs but I was told its just the endo manifesting in a different way. I see an integrated holistic doctor who ordered a poop test (no joke) and it let us know what my body needed and I began to attack bad flora and add the good with probiotics. Its been tricky because some probiotics just DO NOT work with my body...
also it helps to try to not have any solid food the day before, and the day of my period starting.

I was diagnosed with endo August 2014 and IBS February 2016. My IBS started after my laparoscopy and now I frequently get food poisoning, gastroenteritis, and daily pain and bloating. I am on a restricted diet. Not on the pill as it makes my period more frequent and makes me ill.

I was diagnosed with ibs two years before my endo diagnosis and I've realized that the ibs symptoms were most likely caused by the endo. The ibs symptoms have much improved since my lap surgery last June. I also take norethindrone daily so I don't have a period. I recently started taking Zofran every other day (it's usually used as an anti nausea medication but has recent studies that show it helps with ibs symptoms). This has helped so much! Of course being careful with my diet and learning trigger foods is also key!

Yes, I have awful IBS symptoms - doctor says that is very common with deep endo which is what I have. I found it was IMMEDIATELY relieved (not completely but sooooo much better) when I stopped eating dairy. I dropped two dress sizes in a week from not being bloated and painful any more!