Posted: 03/03/08 - 14:39 Post subject: post-ablation syndrome
Hi
I am 48 and was recently diagnosed with post-ablation syndrome after 6 ½ years of pain. I understand now why it took so long when so few doctors seem to have heard about it. And of course since I‘d had the ablation and wasn’t bleeding anymore I never really knew when my cycle was and didn’t connect it to a menstrual thing myself. The pain wasn’t that regular until recently.
Still I’m surprised there’s so little information out there. I’ve found only a few sites that seem to repeat the same info though some say you just need the fallopian tubes removed while most say a hyst. is necessary.
I’m now waiting for a hysterectomy but I have a few questions. I’m not sure how much of the pain I have I can attribute to the PAS. I’ve been getting heart flutters [don’t know how else to describe them] occasionally and pain that goes right to my knees now. I am constipated during my cycles but it doesn’t seem like REAL const. [i.e. not hard and dry] -- it seems more like something is constricting my colon so my stools are all pencil-thin when they come. It’s only during my periods so I don’t think it’s anything else.
Also, do you think the inflammation from the PAS that causes back pain could actually make my back “go out”? I’ve been going to a chiropractor for the back pain before my diagnosis and it does help sometimes.
And the hysterectomy really stops the pain, right? [please say yes!]
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