So I still have the abdominal pain, chest pain, joint pain, back pain, and pressure in my head. It has been 224 days since the pains first started and every test I have had has come back normal except for the laparoscopy which showed I have endometriosis which is all quite frustrating. I was trying acupuncture to help with the pain from the endometriosis but it was not working so I stopped, the acupuncturist admitted that he was unable to...

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February 3-5 was the 7th annual Caring for Kids Radiothon here in Calgary Alberta Canada. It is a 3 day event that is held at the Alberta Children's Hospital that tries to get people to join the miracle network and donate to the hospital to help buy important medical supplies. For just $18 dollars a month or 60 cents a day people can help make the hospital a better place for the kids. The radiothon...

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So a couple of weeks a go I went in for a set of chest x-rays and x-rays if my knee to try to figure out what was causing the pain. My doctor thought that the chest pain could be caused from trapped air in my chest after the laparoscopy that I had but the x-ray's came back normal, and she thought that I might have to start of arthritis in my knees but those...

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I am 19 and for the past 3 or 4 weeks I have had 1 or 2 nose bleeds a day. I was wondering what could be causing them, I am on Alesse (birth control), Pulmicort turbuhaler 200MCG and Bricanyl Turbuhaler 0.5MG for my asthma, and have been taking advil to help numb the pain I have been having from the endometriosis that I have recently been diagnosed with. Could these be causing the nose...

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Back in December I was diagnosed with endometriosis and have been dealing with quite a bit of pain for the past 6 months. I have tried several different pain medications that my doctor gave me and nothing has really helped. MY GYN said that I should go on these hormone shots but Im not too sure that I want too and I can not really afford them at the moment. I am looking for different...

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So today I went and had my head CT scan done, I had to be at the hospital by 7:00am because my scan was at 7:45am. The scan went well and only took about 10 minutes and the person that did my scan said that I would have the results by Wednesday. Later on in the day my doctor phoned and said that she had the results, since I was told I wouldn't have the results...

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So I went to the doctors today and I finally got the results back from my surgery. The pap smear was normal but they did find that I do have endometriosis, these are not the results I was hoping for. The doctor said that the pain should eventually go away on its own and told me to make an appointment to see her in January. She said that she will see how I am doing then...

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So it has been 14 days since I went in for my laparoscopy and had the pap smear done. On the day of the surgery (Monday November 23rd) I arrived at the hospital at 6:30am with my mom and dad to check in and was taken to into the room that I would be in before and after the surgery around 7:20am. One of the nurses tried to put the IV into my hand but when...

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So I went to see a GYN today and she told be that she would like to perform a laparscopic surgery on me to look for endometriosis. I go in for the surgery on November 23rd one day before my 19th birthday. I am hoping that she will find something and that I will be able to start working on getting better and back to normal. If she finds nothing I may have to go on a new drug...

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It has been 102 days since the pain first started, I have been in and out of the doctor's office having more test run and still nothing. In September my doctor sent me for an Upper GI and an FT hoping that something would show up but yet again it came up blank. She switched me over to Novo Ketorolac 10MG to help with the pain, I took it for over a month, at first...

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So it has been a month and a half since that pain started and they still cannot figure out what is wrong with me. The pain has now moved it is still the right side of my abdomen, but now it has moved above my belly button, the pain in my back has gotten worse and has moved up farther and not I have had a pressure in the back of my hear for 3...

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For the past 2 weeks I have had a pain in my lower right abdomen and over the past few days it has gotten worse an moved to my back, I have also had some nausea and a loss in appetite. Sometimes the pain is barely there and other times the pain can be debilitating. My family doctor thought it the pain was caused from a ovarian cyst or a problem with my kidneys so...

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2 years ago I was diagnosed with psoriasis, I had small scaly patches all over my body. My doctor sent me to a dermatologist where I was given 2 different medications to help clear it up. Eventually all of the scaly spots disappeared but I was left with some small white patches where some of the spots had been. And now some of these areas do not tan like the rest of my body. I was just wondering...

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