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Women's Health |
3 day period12/13/2007 |
I`m 20 and for the past year my period has only been 3 days long and lighter then it used to. I used to bleed for 7 days and real heavy with bad cramps and now i hardly ever have cramps. my doctor told me at 13 i have endometriosis. I`ve also been having well they feel like hot flashes I guess where I am burning up but not sweating but a little. can you please tell me what`s going on? also I have been having unprotected sex with my b/f for about 5-6 months now and haven`t got pregnant. Does all of this have to do with my endometriosis? and is it possible I can`t get pregnant or is it going to be hard to? Should I consider putting my eggs in a bank or something?
Endometriosis is a condition in which cells that usually grow in the lining of your uterus (called "endometrium") appear or grow in other places within your abdominal cavity. At the same time that the tissue in the uterus bleeds and causes a period, this tissue can also bleed inside of you, causing very painful periods and internal inflammation that can lead to scarring or adhesions (organs being stuck together).
The only way to know for sure if you have endometriosis is to have an operation where a surgeon looks inside your abdominal cavity. A doctor might have suspected it when you had bad cramps, but that is a pretty common complaint of a 13-year old, and endometriosis does not usually show up in adolescence. Endometriosis does not cause your periods to be light or irregular.
Endometriosis can cause difficulty getting pregnant, but this is usually due to the tubes getting inflamed and sticking to other structures. Again, the only way to know this would be to have a surgery or X-ray that examines the tubes. But if you are sexually active and don't want to be pregnant right now, it is very important to use some form of birth control until you are ready.
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Jonathan A Schaffir, MD Assistant Professor Division of General Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology College of Medicine The Ohio State University |
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