um, WOW! you poor kitten. you have been through so much.

Had the MDs not done a simple blood test to check your sugar before? Did you make it to an OB/GYN? Rectal bleeding during your period "may" be triggered by endometrial tissue that has invaded the rectal wall, and reacts the same as the endo tissue INside the uterus when triggered by hormones to shed, but you need to have that confirmed. They can do a colonoscopy to check that, OR they can do a "keyhole" surgery. They make three very small incisions, and poke a camera into your belly. They can peek at your ovaries, uterus, and bowels to see if you have scar tissue or uterine tissue out of place. its an easy surgery to recover from, and would help give a better view of what is happening on the other side of those organs. You can have the scar or excess endo tissue removed at the same time, and that may free up trapped organs, or trapped bowel tissue.

I am glad they finally figured out your blood sugar was high, but have they provided you with any answers as to why it went that high? I hope you keep asking questions. You should be under the care of an endrocrinologist now with the diabetes, and they happen to specialize in hormones as well. Fire away, ask some big questions.

I hope you feel better soon.

MJA,
I am 30 and just had to have a hysterectomy because of my endometriosis. My pain was so bad it hurt to walk, my pain was only on my left side though. However, it took me six years and finding the right doctor to get pain free where i am today. I started off with the Lupron shots six years ago and it helped at first but i was also battlling ovarian cysts. In the following six years I had switched gyn drs because my gyn wasn't helping me only to find out that six years later my choice was even worse and i would end up back at the same gyn practice i was at before but with a different dr. on my first visit with her she new exactly what need to be done and two weeks later i was surgery and now recovering. Over the years i was in pain, tried iud, pain meds, ultrasounds, ct's and nothing would happen until i finally said enough and told my primary care i wanted a referal to the best gyn in my town. So the first step is to go ahead and do the lupron shots because in the end its a process of counting out all methods of treatment before a hysterectomy. good luck

Wow! Our stories are pretty similar, but I just want to tell you a little bit about my experience.
I'm 27 right now, and had a large cyst the size of a grapefruit that was twisted and hemmoraging around my ovary removed (and 3/4 of my ovary) when I was 15. Since then I have always dealt with painful periods and lower left side pain (the ovary removed was my Right). About 2years ago, I started bleeding constantly (always been on birth control) and my stomach swelled up till I looked 8months pregnant! I ended up in the hospital for 3months, they performed cystoscapy, colonoscapy, laproscapy and found endo, my uterus closed, interstical cystitis...all of which is pretty much untreatable.
I was discharged and the pain immediatly started growing again. I never did stop bleeding and now my bowels quit working. I am on an unreal amount of narcotics (oxycontin,percocet,naproxen,elavil,fentenal) that don't really seen to eleviate the pain (prob because I've been on them long term), and I also go to internal physio. (yucko!)
I've been to several pain clinics, gynos, doctors, specialist that tell me they don't know anything anymore, and I should just try to learn to cope because there's nothing they can do.
Recently I was referred to a new gyno that informed me about Lupron. He wants me to take the shots for 6months because he's seen remarkable positivity with it in several women with endometriosis. He also says that some women who have just a couple spots of endo can be in severe pain, while others who have severe endo may not even have any symptoms at all. Everyone is different!

Well, I made sure to do my homework on this Lupron drug, and found pretty much no positive feedback anywhere I could find on the internet. Everywhere I looked people were saying how awful it was, to never go on it, that it ruined their lives, that they were left disabled. ..I started freaking out and thought there would be no chance in hell I would be going through with it.
Then, When the pain became unbearable, I realized I really had no other choice, so I started it.
I've only had 2injections so far (started Oct.9,2009)and I'd have to say it really isn't as bad as it's made out to be. Yes my bones are sore, I can't sleep yet I'm always tired, minor hotflashes, memory loss, hair loss (more like extra shedding)..but so far its not as terrible as everyone else made it out to be. My bleeding has stopped, but the pain is still there (I'm still on pain meds and I was told it might take 4injections before I notice a change) and I still can't go to the bathroom normally,..but if this will take my pain away in the end, it would be worth it to me.

My point is, the internet only has negativity to report, because everyone that has had good results or feels better has no reason to vent, so they don't bother writing all the good about it because its no longer an issue in their lives.
The only way to confirm endometriosis is through a laparoscopy exam, and everyone reacts differently to drugs, treatment.
You really should try to convince your gyno to do a scope to see what really is going on. In my opinion, Lupron should be a last resort because it is a form of Chemo, and if it can be avoided it should. Most endo can be removed/lasered through a scope. (mine is too large and spread out on my bowels, bladder etc to go at it that way).

Good luck, and I hope you are doing well.

hey the only way to dx endometriosis is to have suurgery and i would find a other doc i had to begg my doctor at the time to do the surgery on me because the pain and sure enough i had it and bad.

that same doctor felt so bad because he would not listen to me when i went to him he made me wait a month maybe longer and he said no wounder i was in pain for he just kept saying he was sorry for not listening .

he told my family that i must really been suffering when i went to him and i was but he did not believe me but i would keep looking till you find a doctor that will do the surgery and dx it because it sound like you do have it.

your reg doctor is not going to know if you have it by looking at you . he or she needs to send you to a doctor that will listen to you and do a surgery to see if you have it.