Scared Mom, Full of Endometriosis and Cysts – Tina’s Story

I’m sitting in front of my kid’s school crying in my van – something I’ve done a lot this week. I spent my teen years and 20s dealing with painful heavy periods that were anything but regular. 28 day cycle…what’s that? They put me on the pill young to try to control the bleeding and the pain. I married at 25 – wanting to be a mom all my life. We started trying to conceive on our honeymoon. Five years later after many many tears and negative pregnancy tests we discussed IVF. After finding out that my husband and I both seem to have issues we decided we couldn’t handle more heart break and decided to start the adoption process. We have since adopted two amazing children that I love more than I ever thought possible. In 2006 I had to have my gall bladder removed after bring sick for over a year. Then in 2008 an balloon ablation to try to control my excessive pain and bleeding. Then a year or two later another ablation – this time a rollerball ablation. In December 2011 I started having excruciating back and side pain. After escarole trips to emergency where they did nothing but give me morphine, I finally got an ultrasound which found a massive cyst on my left ovary. A thirty minute surgery was scheduled to remove my ovary and my tubes. Three hours later I woke up violently vomiting up find out the surgery was not successful. They got in there and found out I had endometriosis everywhere – attached to my bowels, bladder...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - Category: OBGYN Authors: Tags: Endometriosis Your Stories cysts Source Type: news