I'm new to this site and just wanted to post up some information about my current ordeal.

I have had painful periods since I was fifteen years old. I would get unbelievable cramping when my cycle would begin. I would also get terrible diarrhea that last for two or three days. It would be so bad that attending school was out of the question. I became pregnant at eighteen and delivered a beautiful and healthy baby boy at age nineteen (1995). He is my only child.

In 2007 I had the horrible pain again but this time it was mid-cycle. I went to the ER and was found to have a large cyst on my right ovary. It was a dermoid cyst and I ended up losing my ovary completely. Still no change in the pain.

In August of 2008 I began to have terrible lower abdominal pain and almost constant diarrhea. I had several Emergency Room visits for this pain. I also developed pain in my upper right quadrant. The doctors attributed this to Gall Bladder disease and ultimately removed it. This did not help the pain.

I then made an appointment with a gynecologist who told me it was caused by functional cysts on my remaining ovary. Unsatisfied with the diagnosis I saw another gynecologist who performed an exploratory laparoscopy. He told me that he found nothing.

I was then sent to a GI doctor via another ER visit. He performed a clonoscopy, Small Bowel Follow Thru and a Capsule endoscopy. I was told that I had Irritable Bowel Syndrome. I was perscribed several different medications for this and none of them helped the symptoms.

I was just recently in the ER again for pelvic pain that was so bad I could hardly stand up. After a pelvic exam, blood work, urinalysis and CT scan I was told that I had Plevic Inflammatory Disease and given antibiotics. They found microscopic amounts of blood in my urine and Free fluid in my pelvic cul-de-sac. How much fluid I don't know. I wasn't told. I am scheduled for an Ultrasound this Thursday and I have another gyno appointment that day as well.

I have been online looking up as much information as possible on Endometriosis. That's when I found this website. I'm looking for any information about the experiences that others with the disease have had.