Endometriosis creates it's own estrogen so nothing including a hysterectomy or menopause is a cure. There's not a cure. 😖😔🤯

Hysterectomy is a major procedure and should considered and not taken lightly as sadly it does not cure endometriosis there is no cure and the treatments are barbaric , it's a decision that shouldn't be taken lightly as it will not receive the pain or cure endometriosis itself x

I was on depo-provera for my stage 4 endometriosis for 2 years. I Do NOT recommend this drug. Although it did improve pain somewhat, I Gained a crap ton of stuff weight )I wanna say I gained 60 lbs total if not more from this drug. I also still got flare ups and it does increase appetite. I don’t recommend it for anything. That is just my opinion. I am on MYFEMBREE for stage 4 endometriosis I had a hysterectomy a little over a year ago with ovaries left in I can only also be on myfembree for 2 years ( same with the depo) because of its bone marrow loss side effect. Myfembree has been helping I am also not gaining weight in this.
Harlee

I have not had a hysterectomy. I have always had very painful periods. But, they were regular and like clockwork when I was a teenager. I had one child, and afterwards started using Depo as birth control. This was starting in 1995. Several years later of being on Depo, it came out that it could be problematic for my bones and I was taken off it. While on pills the periods were still painful, so a doctor agreed to give me active pills for most of the time and suggested I have 4 periods a year. A few years later I was told I could just stay on active pills consistently. But there was some time while I was taking pills that I stopped taking anything because I would drop 20 lbs fairly quickly if I did. So, when I would stop taking pills at that point, each time my period would come sooner than it had the last time until it would get to be about 2 weeks between and I would restart pills. More years later, I have HORRENDOUS pain and it turns out to be a "functional cyst" and I am given nSAID pain relief like Anaprox, until it goes away. But when checking with an ultrasound to confirm everything was ok, another cyst was forming on the same ovary. I demanded to have the ovary removed. I was not willing to wait and see how painful it would get again. So the gynecologist I saw at the time did take it out, but he was not a very good doctor and he knew my history but never thought I had endometriosis. When he did the surgery laparoscopically, he said there was no evidence of endometriosis. However the biopsy on the cyst and fallopian tube that was removed found that there were more cysts inside the fallopian tube. I tried other types of birth control to try to stop cysts from forming and none of them were working. Since the last time I was pain free was on Depo a new gynecologist suggested I go on Depo again, but make sure to have a calcium supplement.

So I have not had a formal diagnosis, however I had a lot of the symptoms of Endometriosis and so I asked the question to see if there was some possibility that due to so much being unknown, could the doctor have found no evidence of endometriosis when I had the surgery but I could in fact still have it, but due to not having active periods at the time the surgery was being done, might have left little evidence of it, and if there was any, he missed it?

I recently started perimenopause so it probably is never going to matter, but I thought from some of what I had read online there might be something to this idea.

Thank you for your responses, I appreciate it very much.

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u or not everyone is different and your gynecologist needs to have some training and education on endometriosis as she is giving you innacurate misinformation as most of them do hysterectomy will never cute endometriosis it will always grow back wether you have a uterus or not and this has been proven time after time people really need to educate themselves more on the disease rather than accepting innacurate information from supposed health care professionals