So I'm on the waitlist for laproscopy and a little bit terrified by the number of posts of people saying they felt worse? Or had long term issues? I don't feel I have much choice in the matter cause basically all birth control screws me up and I *have* to try to find out why my periods and the pain directly before in other parts of my body are so debilitating, especially since most painkillers have stopped working and the only one that I can get that still works makes me exhausted and has horrifying side effects if I use it to actually prevent the pain for the whole time, I can only really use it once a day for when I need to get stuff done urgently or to leave the house... But kinda scared the investigation will disable me further? Not to mention that because of the reactions to birth control, if I do have endo I'm likely to end up picking between: - living with the intense pain and hoping the endo doesn't cause too much organ damage, - using birth control and giving up on having mental health good enough to keep my job - getting a hysterectomy and having to rely on the NHS's opinion of how much HRT I need (I gather that because their guidelines are for people going through menopause at the usual time the level they aim for is low if you're in your thirties) not to mention the possibility of having the same issues with mental health from that as from bc, on top of a risk of bone density loss.... Like.... Are there seriously no options that aren't "well, guess you're fucked, which disability would you prefer?"...   submitted by   /u/Chaotic-Menace [link]   [comments]