Just curious - if you had a lap - did they find endometriosis?

LucyPevensie · June 2011

In my case they did - but it was found to be "mild" - and I remember my doctor basically saying that if you did a lap on almost any 35 year old woman (my age at the time) - you'd probably find at least some mild endo. I am just curious to see if anyone had a lap and there was NO endo found. Just collecting random data for no good reason other than my own curiousity. Thanks for playing! Cool

cmw&tdm · June 2011

I had a lap when I had my ectopic removed and they found no endo at all, but I was 26.

At my mom's hysterectomy done in her early 40s they told her there was no endo.

ETA: my mom asked about the endo because her sister had endo really bad and needed to do IVF (in the late 80s/early 90s) because of it and she thought she might have some of the symptoms.

b3bell · June 2011

I've had two laps and they found endo both times.

LisaandBryan · June 2011

I had one and there was none found but I was only 28 at the time....

RoxBride · June 2011

I've had 2 and had tons, and they removed it, and still found tons when they did my c/s.

Kahana · June 2011

I had a lap done when I was 32 and 36, endo was found both times.

epphd · June 2011

Before I went under for my colon tumor removal (which was done laparascopically), I reminded the doc to look for endometriosis He said they were looking for more cancer, and given how closely they'd look, they'd find even the minutest trace of endo.

They found no endo.

Yay?

Sara Scissors · June 2011

I did and they did not find a thing. I was 26 at the time. My Mom had severe endo and couldn't get pregnant with me for nearly 2 years and after meds to get rid of it. I had been TTC unsuccessfully and unexplained for nearly 2 years myself when I insisted we at least take a peak and see. The following month I found out I had MTHFR and 10 days later I got pregnant!

jenber77 · June 2011

I had minor endo ("stage one or two," he said) when I had a lap when I was 30 years old.

sescms2004 · June 2011

LucyPevensie:
In my case they did - but it was found to be "mild" - and I remember my doctor basically saying that if you did a lap on almost any 35 year old woman (my age at the time) - you'd probably find at least some mild endo.

My RE said the SAME exact thing, word for word. He basically tried to talk me out of it, esp. if we were considering IVF, b/c it would bypass endo issues anyway. I was not ready to consider IVF at that point, and wanted to try everything we could to avoid it (3 more IUI's and 2 more c/p's later, we gave in). Anyway....I was 33 at the time, and he did find Stage 1-2. I had zero symtoms and no family history. Some was on my ovaries and ute. May or may not have played a factor in egg quality, he said. Biggest thing he found was one of my tubes was a bit kinked....may or may not have been a contributor to my IF. Even though I'd had an HSG before, in which the dye flowed, but it did spill very slowly on that side. I tend to think some of my c/p's were a result of the egg getting caught up in the kinked tube (one was possibly ectopic).

Sorry to digress.....but yes, my case would line up w/ your dr's stats!

laura&dan05 · June 2011

I had a lap/myomectomy done a few weeks after I turned 30. My RE found endometrioma (endo in the form of a cyst on my ovary) but he didn't find it any other place.

flbeachcouple · June 2011

Nope, I was 34.

queenbone · June 2011

I had a LAP/HSC done when I was ttc#1 and he removed my uterine polyps and "a touch of endo". I was a month from my 31st birthday.

When I had tttc#2 he felt like the symptoms that led him to assume endo the first time hadn't returned. When I ended up having another c/s he looked to see if anything had returned and it was all clear. I was 35 then.