Thanks to all who replyed to previous post

I want to thank all of u who replied with ur thoughtful answers! gives me some ideas. Im just gonna have to be more assertive with my doc to do further testing to get an affirmative on the actual causes so I can use some of the suggestions you all have giving me. being that I am jobless and attending college fulltime, im on medi-cal which is very limited on options. there were only a few others I could sign up for as in pcps but they had no openings. so im stuck with who I have. and if there are specialty docs for the various possibly causes of my pain that u all have shared, id still have to go thru my pcp. county offices are a pain. they just want to throw meds at u. after he got reslts from cuture of my urine that it was bacteria-free...he called me back and told me to take myralax and just diet. He just thinks by what I told him that its possible it ibs and ic...but not a definitive answer. but yet he didn't pursue to do further testing, xrays etc to rule out things or get visuals etc. Just left me hanging on my own. And he led me to believe at the appointement that if no bacteria was found, that we would proceed with further steps. im just tossed to the side. And I cant afford to go to a specialist on my own. For a few year or so both my mother and grandmother(who is now deceased) thought it could be my female organs/cysts that are causing such issiues. my gram had gone through a lot with cysts and such and had a hysterectomy etc. my mom had some issues but no removal. My today still thinks this doc should look into my my female organs and such. I have always on and off had issues with my period, overbleeding etc. the birth control plls help regulate but I still have inconsistencies being on it. So Monday I will call that office again for them to look further into my condition.

Again, I would try some of the suggestions u all made, but I need a more definitive from that dum butt doc, so I know what to focus on. Thanks you all and its nice to have peeps to talk to about this....by the way my grandma also had fms

Fibro can cause issues with your period. I had issues with my lady bits since I was a teen. I recall calling my mom to pick me up from high school because I was in so much pain from my period. I had heavy bleeding, terrible cramps, stabbing pains, it would last for days upon days upon days, no regularity what so ever. I took BC pills in my teens. They helped at first, but quickly didn't do much for me.

When I was 19 I had some massive abdominal pain that I thought maybe was my appendix but wasn't allowed to go to the doctor's to find out (yay military - my sgt. thought I was faking). It lasted for about 36 hours, it was so bad i couldn't even stand up right to walk more than a foot every 5 min or so. Afterwards, I could feel tugging in my abdomen when I would move in certain ways. About a year later, it was accidentally found that I had two extremely large cysts on my ovaries. A 7 lb cyst the size of a softball and a 10 lb cyst the size of a volleyball. I had immediate surgery to remove them and it was found that I had had numerous cysts pop over the years. Including one that the doctor told me I was really lucky to have survived since it was so big it could have ruptured other organs (gee, thanks sgt). The tugging came from the gunk on the inside of the cysts. It causes organs in the area to adhere to one another.

It wasn't until I was 30 that I started having more issues beyond the numerous, painful popping cysts. I started to feel like I was bloated, all the time. It finally got so bad I went in and found my uterus was one giant fibroid mass. A hysterectomy soon followed and by the time it was removed, it had swollen to the size of a woman's who is 16 weeks pregnant. Sadly, I asked the docs in the Army who cut me open to take out the cysts to remove my uterus. They told me I was too young to make that decision. Yet they removed both of my tubes....

Now I laugh at other women buying tampons and pads - I'm evil!

Maybe for female issues you can go through something like Planned Parenthood? I don't know if they do that kind of thing, but maybe they can give you a route to look down.

Thank you for sharing the information and ur experiences. Ill be insistent on doc/the office to get my female organs checked out so that can be ruled out or if the problem taken care of. my mom hates that office..she is almost near wanting to go with me cus im not assertive enough, gotta luv her. but yeah im not as assertive on docs as she can be. Like u I always feel bloated..i feel like my waistline hips and tummy are big as a 700 pound person not a 260pd. I get sprouts of cramp/pain that shoot but a lot of dull aches, back pin, feel like tightening rubber bands in my lower sides of tummy faint burn in vaginal area, sometimes some naseua etc.

Rubber Ducky said:

Fibro can cause issues with your period. I had issues with my lady bits since I was a teen. I recall calling my mom to pick me up from high school because I was in so much pain from my period. I had heavy bleeding, terrible cramps, stabbing pains, it would last for days upon days upon days, no regularity what so ever. I took BC pills in my teens. They helped at first, but quickly didn't do much for me.

When I was 19 I had some massive abdominal pain that I thought maybe was my appendix but wasn't allowed to go to the doctor's to find out (yay military - my sgt. thought I was faking). It lasted for about 36 hours, it was so bad i couldn't even stand up right to walk more than a foot every 5 min or so. Afterwards, I could feel tugging in my abdomen when I would move in certain ways. About a year later, it was accidentally found that I had two extremely large cysts on my ovaries. A 7 lb cyst the size of a softball and a 10 lb cyst the size of a volleyball. I had immediate surgery to remove them and it was found that I had had numerous cysts pop over the years. Including one that the doctor told me I was really lucky to have survived since it was so big it could have ruptured other organs (gee, thanks sgt). The tugging came from the gunk on the inside of the cysts. It causes organs in the area to adhere to one another.

It wasn't until I was 30 that I started having more issues beyond the numerous, painful popping cysts. I started to feel like I was bloated, all the time. It finally got so bad I went in and found my uterus was one giant fibroid mass. A hysterectomy soon followed and by the time it was removed, it had swollen to the size of a woman's who is 16 weeks pregnant. Sadly, I asked the docs in the Army who cut me open to take out the cysts to remove my uterus. They told me I was too young to make that decision. Yet they removed both of my tubes....

Now I laugh at other women buying tampons and pads - I'm evil!

Maybe for female issues you can go through something like Planned Parenthood? I don't know if they do that kind of thing, but maybe they can give you a route to look down.

Thank you for sharing ur information . definitely suspicious if it is any cysts or female organ issues

Kimberlynn1978 said:

Thank you for sharing the information and ur experiences. Ill be insistent on doc/the office to get my female organs checked out so that can be ruled out or if the problem taken care of. my mom hates that office..she is almost near wanting to go with me cus im not assertive enough, gotta luv her. but yeah im not as assertive on docs as she can be. Like u I always feel bloated..i feel like my waistline hips and tummy are big as a 700 pound person not a 260pd. I get sprouts of cramp/pain that shoot but a lot of dull aches, back pin, feel like tightening rubber bands in my lower sides of tummy faint burn in vaginal area, sometimes some naseua etc.

Rubber Ducky said:

Fibro can cause issues with your period. I had issues with my lady bits since I was a teen. I recall calling my mom to pick me up from high school because I was in so much pain from my period. I had heavy bleeding, terrible cramps, stabbing pains, it would last for days upon days upon days, no regularity what so ever. I took BC pills in my teens. They helped at first, but quickly didn't do much for me.

When I was 19 I had some massive abdominal pain that I thought maybe was my appendix but wasn't allowed to go to the doctor's to find out (yay military - my sgt. thought I was faking). It lasted for about 36 hours, it was so bad i couldn't even stand up right to walk more than a foot every 5 min or so. Afterwards, I could feel tugging in my abdomen when I would move in certain ways. About a year later, it was accidentally found that I had two extremely large cysts on my ovaries. A 7 lb cyst the size of a softball and a 10 lb cyst the size of a volleyball. I had immediate surgery to remove them and it was found that I had had numerous cysts pop over the years. Including one that the doctor told me I was really lucky to have survived since it was so big it could have ruptured other organs (gee, thanks sgt). The tugging came from the gunk on the inside of the cysts. It causes organs in the area to adhere to one another.

It wasn't until I was 30 that I started having more issues beyond the numerous, painful popping cysts. I started to feel like I was bloated, all the time. It finally got so bad I went in and found my uterus was one giant fibroid mass. A hysterectomy soon followed and by the time it was removed, it had swollen to the size of a woman's who is 16 weeks pregnant. Sadly, I asked the docs in the Army who cut me open to take out the cysts to remove my uterus. They told me I was too young to make that decision. Yet they removed both of my tubes....

Now I laugh at other women buying tampons and pads - I'm evil!

Maybe for female issues you can go through something like Planned Parenthood? I don't know if they do that kind of thing, but maybe they can give you a route to look down.