Quote Originally Posted by Catrin View Post
I had this, and it got quite painful before the end - and not just during my periods...my surgery was actually precipitated by an ovarian cancer scare, but in the end it turned out I had a bad case of adenomyosis and while my ovaries were quite scarred I didn't have cancer

It is your body and your decision to make, but it is only early Jan, if you have the surgery now you will be back on the bike by spring.

FWIW, my specialist told me that the only trustworthy way of diagnosing adenomyosis was after the uterus was removed. Now my surgery was in 2008 (and no one thought about adenomyosis at the time), so perhaps diagnostic tools have progressed since that time.

Catrin, I'm so glad that they found your issue wasn't cancer, that must have been extremely scary for you... what a relief to find out it was NOT.

My doctor also said about the same thing, he couldn't say with 100% certainty, until after the surgery, but from the ultrasound they did, and the symptoms it was fairly evident.

Yes, the menopause thing is scary in and of itself... ah well, we'll see how it goes. I'm calling the drs office tomorrow...

It's been so helpful to me to be able to vent here and get such helpful feedback.