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busymum 
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Posted: 08 March 2008 at 7:15pm |
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Do immune systems recognise that the endo building up around various places is a "malfunction" and try to fight it? Just wondering if endo could be a cause of feeling tired etc (or if I'm overworked!]
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cuppatea
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Posted: 08 March 2008 at 7:37pm |
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Have you had your iron levels checked recently? I seem to get anaemic anytime i'm not taking supplements even though I eat plenty of iron rich foods.
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busymum
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Posted: 08 March 2008 at 9:13pm |
I thought about that, I've never really had probs with iron except in third trimester - but even then still within 'normal'. Bit reluctant to take iron suppls with constipation already though!  
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Posted: 08 March 2008 at 10:22pm |
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Take them with Kiwi juice and you should be ok.
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Posted: 09 March 2008 at 8:47am |
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Tiredness is a huge sign of endo, busymum...
This is taken from the NZ Endometriosis Foundation website...
The more classic symptoms are:
• Pain with periods (dysmenorrhoea)
• Painful intercourse (dyspareunia)
• Sub-fertility or infertility
• Bowel involvement eg. pain before defecation, painful wind, bloating, constipation, diarrhoea. These symptoms are often associated with a period.
Other general symptoms may prevail:
• Constant tiredness
• Depression and mood disturbances
• Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)
• Pain at other times (eg. with ovulation)
• Pain in other places (eg. Lower back pain)
• Abnormal menstrual bleeding
• Pain before or with urination
Are you being treated for it??
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Posted: 09 March 2008 at 8:48am |
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Oh, and organic iron supplements don't constipate you at all...talk to your local health store specialist...
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Posted: 09 March 2008 at 1:09pm |
Yes and has been for year; a bit of it is to do with lack of Iron (i'm looking at getting another course of jabs) but I also had GF when I was 16 and that sometimes like to come back not at full strength but enough to knock me out for a few days.
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I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived!
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Posted: 09 March 2008 at 5:35pm |
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My "treatment plan" is the Pill until I can get an op (prob next year sometime, I'm on public). Didn't realise it was a symptom, I'll have to mention it to my doc next time I see him (probably in 4 weeks time after next month's Ov).
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Posted: 10 March 2008 at 12:07pm |
wow!!! i don't really know much about endo except that i have it and reading that symptoms list has explained alot! the only one i don't have is fertility problems....i'm abnormally fertile!  
i'm tired all the time and DH can't think why......bloating is my major issue, i'm taking 'mintec' tabs for it now which seems to be helping
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Posted: 10 March 2008 at 9:24pm |
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I was thinking more on this today... it's probably not a immune system thing but just that the body is so busy doing heaps more work than it ought to be. Either way, I'm getting rather quickly sick and tired of endo!! I want it out and I have to wait waa waa waa
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Posted: 10 March 2008 at 9:43pm |
 ShellandBella wrote:
Tiredness is a huge sign of endo, busymum...
This is taken from the NZ Endometriosis Foundation website...
The more classic symptoms are:
• Pain with periods (dysmenorrhoea)
• Painful intercourse (dyspareunia)
• Sub-fertility or infertility
• Bowel involvement eg. pain before defecation, painful wind, bloating, constipation, diarrhoea. These symptoms are often associated with a period.
Other general symptoms may prevail:
• Constant tiredness
• Depression and mood disturbances
• Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)
• Pain at other times (eg. with ovulation)
• Pain in other places (eg. Lower back pain)
• Abnormal menstrual bleeding
• Pain before or with urination
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I'm so glad I'm having my op next week! I just sat here and checked off all but one on that list 
For me it seems like the endo knows it's days are numbered as I'm having a killer of an AF and have been popping Panadol every 4 hours all day and night! 6 days to go!
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busymum
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Posted: 11 March 2008 at 6:03pm |
I have all bar 2
6 days to go for you - woot!! Do you have to have a bowel prep? Something you get when you google too much 
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Posted: 11 March 2008 at 7:22pm |
I have all but 1 on that list.
Teresa I never did a "bowel prep" when I had my ops. Just the usual no eating for so many hours.
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I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived!
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Posted: 11 March 2008 at 10:14pm |
bowel prep  No mention of that - just no eating or drinking for 12 hours before which is fine as my op is 7am (or at least that's what time I have to be at the hospital)
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Posted: 12 March 2008 at 7:09am |
I never had a bowel prep either, just no eating or drinking from midnight (my op was at 8am). I have endo and have all but 2 of those symptoms and the pain is slowly getting worse as well
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Posted: 31 March 2008 at 9:46am |
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You only need to do a bowel prep when they suspect it is on your bowel and they may need to do bowel surgery. That is my next (3rd)endo surgery...a horrible bowel resection due to lovely endo
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