Hello, I am not sure about Lupron being used as a diagnostic tool either. However I do know that it was one options I had after my first laporoscopy, but it was not used prior either.

I ended up having a specialist myself and I was very lucky in that area. (I wish i had a physician that was as knowledgeable about other areas now.) What my obgyn (high risk specialist whom also specialized in oncology for women) did was a laporoscopy on me to conferm that I had endometriosis.

If none of your physicians have suggested it, I would ask them directly. One thing I have always done is ask a LOT of questions.

A laporoscopy is not that bad really. I have had several of them befor my hysterectomy. The worse thing I think from the laporoscopy was the feeling of being bloated afterwords... it was like having really really bad gas pains and being constipated at the same time.

But the surgery itself was not bad for me. Dr.Burns (my obgyn specialist) just made a few small iincision in my abdomen. One above my belly button, one above my pelvis and two in between. The actual incisions were only about 1" long. That is the only real way I can think of that they could really diagnosis it. Other then the reading the symptoms. One of them is the pain and bleeding tends to get worse around the the time of your period.

For me though, it was too spread out that I ended up having to have a complete hysterectomy after several surgeries. However, once that happened, it was wonderful! That was one pain that was gone for ever, as wel as a few other annoyances. If you have kids already or do not plan on having any, it might be an option if nothing else is or will work in the future. But again, talk to your doctors and see what they have to say.

I am sure what I said may not help but hopefully there was something in there that might give an idea.

Good luck and I really hope you end up feeling better.

Peace,
Sarr