On May 31, I experienced a horrible crampy stabby pain in my abdomen and pelvis. Looking back, that was about the time I should have been ovulating (period I'm may began on the 14th). Pain was so bad I almost passed out. Took some ibuprofen and went to bed. Pain was still there, if slightly less intense the next morning. A few days passed in moderate pain, and the pain itself receded from my abdomen and focused in my pelvis, on the sides, just medial to my hip bones, more on the left than the right.
On day 3 of the pain, I woke to a numb sensation in my left leg. It wasn't pins and needles, but like a limb that was asleep but now mostly awake. That lasted until I went to the Dr. On 7/6. She gave me a sterroid shot and pills, thinking it was sciatic pain as my lower back was sore. Ordered an ultrasound, as I have a long history of ovarian cysts, many of which like to rupture.
Thanks to the laziness of the referral dept. My ultrasound was not scheduled until 2 weeks after my appt. June 20th. My period started on the 13th, and the first day and a half were brutal. The pain returned full force.
During my period, I also had hot flashes. I'd just get really warm all of the sudden and start radiating heat. I took my temp and it was 99.2 or below. The lymph nodes in my groin and neck were swollen, the ones in my neck painfully so. Because of this, my Dr. Admitted me to the hospital.
My blood work is "perfect" my urinalysis is clean. No infection. Dr. thought mono. Negative. He's now running blood work for Epstein Barr and Parvo, but as soon as my period ended, the lymph nodes went back to normal, and my fevers are practically gone.
While in the hospital, they did a ct, and it was normal except for my mesenteric lymph nodes, which were swollen.
When looking back, my periods have been mostly normal. There was this stretch of time when I was 20 that I would skip 2-3 months of having a period, then have one. There was also a stretch of a few weeks last year when I was 27 that sex and orgasms were painful.
I brought up the possibility of endo to my dr since my mother had it, and he dismissed me, shamed me for googling my sumptoms, and told me if I had endo, I would have known it by now. I would have had these symptoms since my first period.
So, does this sound like endo, or am I barking up the wrong tree?