for those who have been following my abdominal issues

(and for those who thought i was full of chit)

so my surgeon is an a$$ and keeps telling me that my sudden weight gain that seems to be centered around my abdomen and appears gradually over the course of a week and then mysteriously disappears over the course of 2-3 days is "dietary" (meaning they think i'm pigging out on 5,000+ calories/day which is physically impossible... duh!) and then my pcp thinks (as i did and as most of you guys on here did as well) that i'm just "full of shit" ~ literally.

my surgeon told me to make an appointment to come talk to the nutritionist so i basically told him to go take a flying leap.

my pcp told me to try dulcolax. i did. i experienced "relief" but that's only because i have constipation problems ANYWAY.

so i wasn't very satisfied with either response and i called my ob-gyn since i needed to talk to him anyway. he scheduled me for a vaginal ultrasound today which was truly disgusting because i started my period this weekend (YUCK!!!) and then he called me back a few hours later to go over the findings.

apparently the abnormalities they found in my uterus last september really do need to be addressed pretty quickly. he feels really confident that they're either fibroids or endometriosis. he said if it's endometriosis then they can burn those out for the most part and i'll experience 70-80% relief in most cases but that if it's fibroids then that's a whole other ball of wax entirely and would have to be handled differently and i might not get any resolution on it.

but in addition to the "abnormalities" he said that there was also a LOT of "free fluid" in my abdomen that was NOT there in september. he believes that this is because my hormones are off which is a "true sign of endometriosis". (i'm quoting here...) so... random 6-10 pound weight gains within a week followed by random 14-18 pound weight losses in a 2-3 day period of time is most likely endometriosis. he's going to do an exploratory laparoscopy on 2-14-08 and hopefully will be able to "fix" everything. (i'm still wanting to have more kids so the ablation and hysterectomy are both out of the question.)

thanks for all the advice and support. you guys rock!!!