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I won't know everything for sure until my follow-up August 22nd...I can likely get the blood results over the phone before that (in about a week) and interpret them myself, but I won't be seeing the specialist until August unless things look REALLY bad.

Don't worry about saying what you said about the hysterectomy. I totally understand where you're coming from and it's not like it isn't something I haven't heard before. Obviously I would give it more thought and I believe at my age you have to go through some psychiatric counselling before they will even do the surgery on you - but I still think it might be something I would want. It seems to always happen eventually to the women in my family...and the kids thing has been the way I've always felt. Plus, I don't think I would be capable of raising a child with the terrible endo pain (assuming the lap didn't work and I know it could) AND Cushing's (which could take a long time to get under control).

Plus, my fiance REALLY doesn't want children. I know he could also change his mind but I find it highly unlikely and with him being so against the idea of having kids I don't see it in our future. And we've been together 8 years so I've known that's where he stood (and he's known where I stand) for a long time. We both would love to get a big house where we could adopt a lot of animals (and maybe foster some) because we definately do better with animals than children.

That being said, I promise, I'm not just going to jump on an operating table in the next few months and let them rip it out or anything. IF the BC pills are the culprit (and they may not be) I will just take it under serious consideration.

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