Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Not exactly the same but very similar

I've been ping-pong-balled back and forth between GYNO and GI specialists for 2 years now becasue it's very hard to discern what all is affecting what "down there". I don't have endo but I do have problems there that were previously chalked up to IBS or "just gas" (almost punched one dr when he said that, I was in terrible pain).

The concensus rigth now is that I DO have IBS but it dramatically changed in its pain/affect on me after birth of my 3rd baby. I hung it up to stress a while and then thought, there's no way, something else is wrong.

Finally we've determined I have cystocele and rectocele, both causing me problems, and internal varicose veins all around my left ovary causing gobs of pain. I'm about to set up surgery to correct the "celes" and probably remove my left ovary, I haven't quite settled on whether I want to undergo ALL that yet or not.

I'd definitely get thoroughly checked out by a GOOD gyno. My first one was a lot like my first GI dr, not too great. Treat your first appointment like an interview and YOU decide whether they're hired or FIRED!!! You have to have good doctors who listen to you and see you situation as a whole rather than bits adn pieces.

GL!

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Take care,
Michelle
...the greatest of these is LOVE. (I Cor 13)

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