Welcome!! I am new to this group too...recently diagnoised. That is a good idea, getting to know each other.
My name is Jessye.
I am in the Army, as is my husband, and we are stationed in Germany.
We just adopted a cat a week and a half ago...so far she is a little princess! Haha.
My husband has one child who lives at a different base with his biological mom.
I would say the best thing in the last month is getting our new kitty.
Best upcoming thing is our plans to use our once-a month 4 day weekends to go to a different country every month since it is so easy-we are already in Europe! It will be like a bunch of mini honeymoons.
I have only had one Endo surgery in February a week after I was diagnoised, but I have had 3 surgeries on my arm because I got hit by a car when I was 16.
Hmm...favorite current pain management tool would be hydrocodone, although it does not quite do the trick sometimes. It is hard to get good pain meds in the Army because they are so scared that people will become addicted...it kind of ruins it for people who really need it (like us). I am also on the Depo shot and Mirena. Tried Niva Ring but the damn thing kept falling out!! Plus, peroids are extremely painful and Nuva Ring causes you to have a peroid anyways.
Favorite hobby is shooting guns, but we cannot do that here, so it has been hard!! So for now, it is just TV & enjoying being a newlywed.

I'm Ashley and I live in Tempe, Arizona. It's a small urban town in the heart of the Arizona State University, No kids, and I'm with a wonderful guy. We've dated on and off for 4 years and finally made it official-it's about time!-and I've sort of moved in in January of this year and things are actually going really great. He's really understanding about my pain and just tells me how much he loves me and just wants me better.
No pets with my bf but 2 labs at my parents.
Decided how much I want to quit my job and work at a book store! but I do need to feel better. A new employer might not be as understanding as my current one.
Soon I want to be able to be able to just be out and about and not feel so horrible! It's the little things i cant do that bother me the most sometimes
None yet. First lap tomorrow afternoon! (yikes!)
For the pain: my fav is oxycotin but most just advil and tramadol. and i switched to the nuvaring.
Well my surgery will have me laid upall weekend so hopefully i can read a good book or something.

Love the idea!
Im Elena Maria
Married no living children
Live in the best city in the world-NYC (born and raised)
8 Surgery's relating to endo, and few D&C's for miscarriages
Love the NY Yankees (obsessed), love soccer-was training for the Olympics as a center forward/right wing but the endo came and I just couldnt do it anymore (Oh well bad things happen to everyone)
Love, love music
Love history, antiques
LOVE the beach!
Love to clean OCD clean freak
love to work out when i can, and get nice and strong. Played all sports (daddy's girl and total "tomboy" at heart)
love getting all dressed up and going out with my husband
Love my husband, he's my sould mate-not just the man I married...we're exactly alike, sometimes not good-both have hot italian tempers, both sensitive (show in different ways), etc. etc etc. He's my best friend, but Im lucky that we it all...but its not perfect-nothing ever is!
Love my nephew-he's my son (not literally) but we have a mother/son relationship and I am the luckiest person in the world, he has a heart of gold, and hes an old soul. Hes my whole heart!
OTC's do not work for me at all, vicoden ES helps about 75%, muscle relaxers help a bit, anti anxiety meds when necessary help even with pain. Tramadol helps with every day chronic pain about 70% but not period pain etc. Surgery just never worked, and I cant be on hormones, so kinda stuck.
Hope others write in about their lives, we all share very intimate things, why not know a little more but still discreet. XX!

I am a little less open about some things but here goes:


I live in beautiful Canada
married and no kids yet
a zoo, 3 lizards, 1 cat, 3 dogs (1 special needs) and of course fish
old Dr. retired (yay?)
going on vacation to Yukon in August and (hopefully) pregnant by then
acupuncture, heat pads and mefanamic (spelling?)
reading, writing, camping, and anything to do with learning about animals

Love the idea!
Ok am Krystal from the Bahamas
32 years young with one child a daughter who will be turning 14 next month
My daughter is a national tennis champion here in te Bahamas she has been playing tennis since she was 4 years old
I was first diagnosed with endo in may of 2010 went through a bevy of treatment options with no success
I sing and write poetry
I love helping others and hope and pray that one day I will be in a position to help women like myself suffering from this disease
I have a boyfriend who has been by my side for almost four years
He has been with me with my multiple trips to the hospital
No pets although I love dogs
My birthday is on Christmas day! Lol

Welcome to the group ladies!

Love it, love it! Hello team.

It's great to put a username and a person together. We're all so unique and tied to each other through this horrible situation.

I hope that we bond over more than just our complaints about doctors, surgeries, pain meds, stomach aches, back pains, and just general blah days.

So, who else is on the board? Those that have posted, anything new to share? How is the adopted cat? Any new antique purchases? How's the tennis star doing? Anyone read a good book?

Hey endowife!!!
A good book my daughter read recently is the other side of paradise by Stacey Ann chin a Jamaican poet and activist it's very interesting
My daughter has taken a year off tennis to focus on her 9th grade exams she will be back on the court as soon as school ends am so excited because she is truly gifted on the court
I would love to invite you ladies to my country so if any of you guys ever vacation here in the Bahamas I would love to be your personal guide and show y'all around!
What has everyone been up to? Is every ok as ok as we can be with this illness

Casey
Near San Antonio TX
Married 3 kids (2 are step children)
1 cat 1 dog
my life in general is the best thing to happen to me. I am blessed with wonderful family and friends. Nothing much new in last monh
really hoping to feel better soon! That'd be great
Ive had 4. Hope for #5 soon
Pain management is not working!
Plan to spend his weekend at home and relaxing with all the kids home!

On my way to the local hospital this morning to see if this other gynae doctor who has a private laparoscopic machine will be able to perform my long over due laparoscopy surgery
Am hoping and praying that I won't get the run around and that he will agree to perform my surgery as I haven't had a lap since my very first lap in May of 2

Since my first lap in May of 2010 wish me luck ladies!!!

Cool!
I live in the San Francisco bay Area
Spent some time by a pool in Palm Springs for my Bachlorette just getting warm!
Engaged, no kids
My cat died last Summer, I wish I had a small dog
Pain management...Norco, heating pad, this yoga-pose thing, sleep
I play music, cook...and read...and love to watch old scary movies:)

Great idea!
Well here goes:
-Elizabeth
-Alaska of all places near anchorage
-Soon to be married! and not yet, yet being the hopeful term *gulp*
-A shiba inu (a dog breed) named Hilo and a Beagle named Sampson
-My wedding dress finally arrived :)
-My trip to maryland to get married
-related to endo none yet it's going to be scheduled soon, I seem to had bad luck however and have had others 2 wrist and 1 nose because I ran into someones face and broke it.
-aleeve, and pamprin I like to punish my liver as well as hot baths
-Reading and I try to stay active by skiing which is sadly still possible even coming up in June (I want to snow to end already) and archery
It was fun to meet everyone!

Hello Ladies!!!!!

-Nicolette
-Northern Virginia
-not married, no kids..
-1 cat
-I have been able to come back to work full time after having bad migraines while on Lupron and I got my 1st bikini since highschool(26 now) :0)
-All I hope is that I am able to stay in work full time and have no endo paid or migraines :) keeping positive
-I have had 3 laporscopies and 10 nerve blocks- I have invisible endo which means it is in my tissue and cant be seen by a naked eye, the doc found it in 2011 and it is stage 4 I was diagnosed in 2007.
-When sick and in paid I use percoset, my lovley heating pad(which will burn and scar your skin be careful telling from experience!), torodol, lots of sleep and anything else the doc thinks will work
-I love to read, and spend time with my 3 yr old neice she always makes me feel better

I have a very good endo doctor in the Baltimore area if anyone would like his name he is the one that found my invisible endo which no other doc was able to find just let me know...

*shesbittersweet
*itll be my 1 year anniversary with my hubby this month
*no pets. can't where we live
*the best thing that happened to me last month was a spontaneous trip to FL!!
*best thing that will happen to me soon is our anniversary. then my 21st birthday!!
*i've only had a diagnostic lap. in the process of trying to get a lap to remove it
*when its bad enough i know i cant tolerate the pain= oxy, hot water bottle, and sleep.
*probably doing too much schoo workl this weekend. boo hoo