Hi, I’m new and I was hoping I could share some of my symptoms to see if any of you think I have endometriosis. I never had bad periods until last year. I had my period and felt so sick I had to stay in bed all day. My periods continued to get more painful and heavier over the last two years, and really caught my attention last May when I had to go to the ER the first day of my period. I felt weak, extreme abdominal pain, sweating to uncomfortable shivering, panic, and constipated. They basically said I’d just been dehydrated. It happened again in October. Same symptoms and I was found to have UTIs both times. Once again they said it was nothing to worry about and prescribed naproxen for the pain. Since then I take naproxen as soon as I start and haven’t had to go to the ER since. It has become common in the last few months for me to miss class/work on the first day of my period even with the pain meds. This April my period was worse than it’d been since my last ER visit and although I took my meds, I came home after class, canceled work and had to rest all day, but I felt bad the first theee days and flow was very heavy. I didn’t start getting energy back after that period until the week after I’d stopped. Then this week I have been spotting and although I know That can happen during ovulation, it’s never happened to me. I asked my doctor if she thought I may have endometriosis and she assured me I don’t, but I haven’t had a pelvic exam done and it seems I have a lot of the symptoms, so I was just wondering if you think it sounds like I have it? 

Thanks so much!