Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Thank you to everyone and one more question

Thanks to all who replied...glad to know I'm not the only one who has been in this boat (but sorry to hear a lot of you suffered on the pill as well). Just thought I should clarify a few things...my mental health is so bad right now that ACTUAL birth control wouldn't be a concern if I were to go off. My fiance understands and we'd figure something out. I'm not even on it for ACTUAL birth control, I was placed on it years before for endometriosis.

So here is the big question...while I know it will likely be hard to go off, it will be even harder for my endometriosis. Hormonal treatments are some of the only treatments out there, and if my body isn't responding well to the pill, there is a good chance that it won't respond well to any of the other ones. Plus, if stopping the pill corrects my imbalances and fixes my cortisol (fingers crossed) no doc in the world will put me back on any hormone treatments.

So...I'd be faced with either trying to go with untreated endometriosis (not going to happen) or having a hysterectomy. I've given this a lot of thought. I don't want children, my fiance feels the same, and we've both decided that if we were to change our minds as we get older we would be more than happy to adopt. Plus, I'm one of the lucky ones with endo who really only has problems during her period. So, I could like keep my ovaries which means natural hormones woudl still be produced and I could avoid surgical menopause, but I would not have to suffer through the periods.

Hope you guys don't think I'm nuts but the pain is so bad with the periods I get even now (usually puts me in bed for somewhere between 3-5 days and sometimes in the hospital) that I just can't go through that at a higher intensity EVERY month.

Any thoughts/feelings? A lot of people freak out when I say that but I'm 24 years old and sick of having such a low quality if life. It's been because of the mental problems, and if that turns out to be the result of the BC pill than I'm not just going to be "bring on the pain" I'd like to have it all taken care of and live a semi-normal life.

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