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[pomtzu]

So sorry you are going thru this, and I know how Laura feels too. I had a similar bad drug encounter, but fortunately it turned out okay for me.

In the late 60's with my last pregnancy, my doctor put me on a drug (that has since been taken off the market), to prevent a miscarriage, since I had a history of this. I delivered a healthy 9 lb baby, so it did what it was supposed to do. However, about 15 years later I got notification from my doctor, that the female offspring who were born to women that had taken this drug, were developing cancer of their reproductive organs. Fortunately I had a boy, but I was advised to be aware in case there should be any problems with males developing any problems in the future. I never heard of any, and my son is a big, burly, healthy, guy who will be 40 next week. But what if I had a girl????

The point is - what do we do? Place blind faith in the doctors and pharmaceutical companies? Opt not to take the drugs and suffer the consequences? It seems there can never be a satisfactory answer to this one.

Here's hoping that all works out for the good in the end for you. Prayers for you from me and the fur kids.

[Anikaca77]

So sorry you are going thru this, and I know how Laura feels too. I had a similar bad drug encounter, but fortunately it turned out okay for me.

In the late 60's with my last pregnancy, my doctor put me on a drug (that has since been taken off the market), to prevent a miscarriage, since I had a history of this. I delivered a healthy 9 lb baby, so it did what it was supposed to do. However, about 15 years later I got notification from my doctor, that the female offspring who were born to women that had taken this drug, were developing cancer of their reproductive organs. Fortunately I had a boy, but I was advised to be aware in case there should be any problems with males developing any problems in the future. I never heard of any, and my son is a big, burly, healthy, guy who will be 40 next week. But what if I had a girl????

The point is - what do we do? Place blind faith in the doctors and pharmaceutical companies? Opt not to take the drugs and suffer the consequences? It seems there can never be a satisfactory answer to this one.

Here's hoping that all works out for the good in the end for you. Prayers for you from me and the fur kids.

Hi thanks for posting. I did my research on the lupron before taking the shot but I don't think I did a good enough job and now I'm paying for that price. I'm going to see a specialist in Hershey, PA at the end of this month who will hopefully offer something better than this lupron shot. The only other thing I think out there would be to have another laporscopic done and clean the endometriosis won't return. I'm not sure how this doctor will feel about performing another laporscopic on me since I've had 2 done in the past one in 1996 and 1 in 1998 and just earlier this year in March I had the lap band done and so far I've lost weight but I am skeptical about going back under if that's what he wants to do.

I'm not sure what we can do other than educate ourselves I suppose on the risks of the drugs. I wish I would have had an MRI done before I was put on the shot to see what my back looked like then but I never had any problems till a year or so after the shot.

Now the sciatica pain really stinks but I'm managing

Thank you for your prays.

Melissa