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Fliss,

I understood all that you said. When I was in high school and started my period

I was having one every other week. My mom said I would regulate and not to

worry. This went on for a year. The period pain was horrible and I would often

ask to stay home from school because I could barely stand it. My mom said I had

to learn to live with the cramping as it was part of being a woman. I couldn't

stay home from school because of cramps. She was only doing what she thought

was right.

Turns out I had endometriosis from a yeast infection that I didn't know I had

because I couldn't talk to my mom about such stuff, so I suffered with it until

the pain finally went away, but never knew it was that serious. and then it

ended up being more severe than that to the point where when I was 16 I was

hospitalized and told I would very likely never have children. I'm sure my mom

felt horrible not believing my painful episode but never said so. The doctors

told me I would always have extremely painful periods because of scaring and

that to help reduce the amount of pain I should have a hysterectomy. I refused

and 9 years later I finally got pregnant with my beautiful son, who is the light

of my life.

Rambling on......I am on the depo because I can not handle both pancreatic pain

AND period pain. It's not fair, it's not fun and it's not right. With the pain

we suffer with from the pancreas aod SOD...who needs period pain too!

Sandy in Ca

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Hi Sandy and Laurie,

Interesting thoughts indeed!

I remember

as a teenager having menstrual pain which made me gasp, forcing me

to sit down and cry when it really gripped me, but thinking at the

same time that it just didn't compare in destructiveness with

my " gastric " pain (as I thought it then). Of course, one might say

that menstrual pain is " natural " in a way which pancreatic pain

obviously isn't.

Fliss (UK)