Just confused...Help??

Question

Ok, i'm 16 and have had very mild vaginal pain the last few days, and the occasional stomach ache/tiny cramp. Ive had leg pain also, but still very mild. Nothing is constant, and everything is very random. The pains last only a few seconds. Are these symptoms normal right after your period. I know that endo involves severe pain and mine arent severe at all. Any possible causes, I'm just confused.

By the way- the vaginal pains seem to have stopped along with the leg pains. There is no pain in bowel movements or bending down or anything. And the stomach pains have decreased but still occasionaly pop up, but very minor still.

Answer 1

Not every woman and girl with endo will have severe pain as a symptom. Some women have very mild symptoms when it comes to pain or no symptoms of pain with the endo and have no idea they have it til they have surgery for a different reason. I met someone that this happened to.

Your symptoms can be an indication of several things ranging such as from infection (another example of something that can cause pain) to endometriosis (which can also cause pain to go down in the legs and also around the bowel, or even bending down-this happened to me several years ago and one part of my problem turned out to be a cyst on my ovary).

I started having symptoms of endo when I was 16 but didn't get diagnosed til I was 25.

Please let your mom know what's going on so she can help you keep an eye on it. Also, keep a record of all these pains and the intensity you notice by using a scale from 1-10 with 10 being the worst. Also log if you notice if something you do makes the pain worse or better. Please keep a log until you go in to your doctor for your next check-up unless the pain starts to intensify even further than it did before (also log this down too if you notice that change).

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