https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:23:28 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/endometriosis-without-the-pain-symptoms#post-1357002 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:56:21 +0000 raintreebee 1357002@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs Green Grass: :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/endometriosis-without-the-pain-symptoms#post-1356985 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:50:39 +0000 mrsvdv 1356985@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My only symptoms were mid-cycle pain - literally a few stabbing pains on one day in the middle of my cycle, and some discomfort during sex. Lap showed several blood cysts, a mess around my bowels and one ovary. I posted about it before, it's been almost two years by now (fx it doesn't come back) and I realize I've forgotten a lot about it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/endometriosis-without-the-pain-symptoms#post-1356965 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:41:15 +0000 Mrs Green Grass 1356965@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@raintreebee: I had the debilitating cramps (like I might die) a few times before BCP, and just this month, I couldn't get out of bed in the morning without Advil...I called my husband to bring it up to me. : ( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/endometriosis-without-the-pain-symptoms#post-1356964 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:38:54 +0000 Mrs Green Grass 1356964@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@septca: Ugh. I am really starting to suspect that I may have it too and it sounds a lot like you. BCP 11 years, no symptoms that I know of. Now post-partum I'm having some really heavy periods, pain around O (and what I think are normal cramps with AF), and lots of tenderness in the abdomen especially around O (like it I push on it or lo steps on it). And then a history of 20 months of infertility to go along with it...one natural chemical pregnancy, one successful IVF.</p> <p>I'm going to follow along! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/endometriosis-without-the-pain-symptoms#post-1356914 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:13:36 +0000 raintreebee 1356914@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have been diagnosed with endo due to a stuck ovary seen on the ultrasound. Other symptoms I have are a tipped uterus (although many woman have this without endo), diarrhea during AF, and occasional severe pain (not necessarily during menstruation). The pain used to happen more when I was younger, maybe a few times a year. No it is more like once or twice a year. But it is debilitating--cramps so bad that I basically have to stop in my tracks and scream. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/endometriosis-without-the-pain-symptoms#post-1356526 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:42:59 +0000 septca 1356526@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I shared my story on the thread linked to above, but my answer to the pain question is yes and no. As a teenager, I had all the classic endo symptoms. I was on BCP for 11+ years and had very few symptoms. When I went off BCP to TTC, I did NOT have the typical endo pain with AF, but I started having a lot of pain around O. Now that I am TTC#2, the pain is the same - only around O. </p> <p>Whether and when you have pain depends on whether there is endo growing (versus scar tissue) and where the growth/scar tissue is in your body. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/endometriosis-without-the-pain-symptoms#post-1356500 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:34:26 +0000 mrswin 1356500@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@swedishfish: I responded to the thread @Happygal: linked about my experience. I do not have the typical symptoms but have endometriosis as diagnosed by my lap surgery </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/endometriosis-without-the-pain-symptoms#post-1355842 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 07:49:54 +0000 Happygal 1355842@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I just shared this thread with @Cole: <a href="http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/laparoscopy" rel="nofollow">http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/laparoscopy</a> and I think info in there will be interesting to you. </p> <p>I haven't been definitively diagnosed through surgery, but the RE strongly suspects that is what we're dealing with. I have pain sometimes during sex (but I always thought that was just the position), and I definitely have discomfort in one area. It's strange--it can really bother me, but when I touch that area, it's not tender to the touch. It's like the pain is deep inside me. </p> <p>I've been to my (now former) midwife for this one painful area, and she said it's round ligament pain. When I researched round ligament pain, I found that it's something people who are pregnant or have endo complain about! I don't have heavy periods or lots of pain during them--I will get cramps on the first day or so, but it's nothing drastic. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/endometriosis-without-the-pain-symptoms#post-1355826 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 07:22:33 +0000 blackbird 1355826@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Pain is not always a symptom. it's one of the reasons why endometriosis is a leading cause of infertility--many women don't know they have it until they can't get pregnant, then the RE does a lap surgery and finds a whole mess of stuff going on. </p> <p>my symptoms were classic--heavy periods and pain, mostly. When they opened me up, they found that the scar tissue had fused my bladder and bowels together and was causing some issues there. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/endometriosis-without-the-pain-symptoms#post-1355820 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 07:13:10 +0000 swedishfish 1355820@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Has anyone been diagnosed with endometriosis? What were your symptoms? Does pain have to be a symptom? </p>