THIS IS GOING TO BE A LONG POST TIA FOR READING
I hope I’m in the right subreddit for this. I am 25 going to be 26 in a few months. I have had my period since I was 12. Ever since I started my period they are HORRIBLE. I mean just absolutely terrible. The first time I had my period I passed out from the pain. My legs go numb from how much pain I’m in and it’s hard to walk, nausea, it feels like I have a gunshot wound in my spine and someone is pressing their finger in the wound and the pain radiates through the front of my pelvis. I have to do breath work to not hyperventilate from the amount of pain my periods cause me. I am so fucking miserable. My grandma on my dads side had stage 4 endometriosis (I’m pretty sure it was stage 4) she had a complete hysterectomy at 38 and said that she had the same symptoms I had and even worse. My mom does not have endometriosis but also had very similar periods to myself and my grandma prior to menopause. I went to gyno for the first time when I was 22 due to seeking female sterilization, and at that time expressed all of my symptoms , while my gyno was SO NICE (and I did not expect being sterilized to treat my sx) she said my options were pretty much hormonal birth control. I have never been on and never want to be on any type of birth control. I understand birth control helps a lot of people, all of the women in my life that I had discussed prior with about birth control have absolutely nothing positive to say about it whether they took the pill, shot, IUD etc. So 2022 I get my bilateral salpingectomy and they told me they only find a benign cyst but no evidence of endometriosis.
My surgeon told me to give it a few years and if I was interested in a hysterectomy she would give me one well those few years have passed and she is no longer with the hospital I originally had the surgery through and no one there knows where she went to practice.
I’ve tried OTC pain relievers, weed, they rx’d me naproxen which did absolutely nothing neither do the OTC pain relievers and I’ve tried holistic methods such as certain teas, stretches, nothing helps. I have to take pretty much the maximum daily allowance of acetaminophen at one time in order to feel slightly functional for a few hours. I joke that maybe I need a horse tranquilizer but that’s truly how I feel. I feel so discouraged going back to my gyno because while she’s super nice all she can suggest is birth control. Is there anything else people have tried that has helped or am I pretty much fucked until I hit menopause?