Does this sound like endometriosis?

It very well could be.  Do you have an OB/GYN or Primary Care physician you can consult with rather than the ER?  Most ERs seem to be very dismissive of Endo symptoms, even when gals have a confirmed diagnosis.

And, if it's something you're able to pursue, try to find an OB/GYN who actually knows a bit about Endometriosis.  

And a few tips:  Endometriosis is (most of the time) not visible on ultrasounds, CTs, or MRIs.  The only *true* way to get a diagnosis is to go through a laparoscopic surgery so the surgeon can SEE the lesions and confirm the findings with a biopsy.  And if you DO have a surgery, make sure your surgeon excises (cuts out) the Endometriosis rather than alblates it (burns it off).  

WIth that being said, your symptoms may NOT be Endometriosis, but something else, too.  It may be that you undergo a barrage of imaging studies, tests, and even see a gastroentrologist before pursuing a diagnostic surgery.

I'm sorry you're in pain.  

I would suggest documenting your pain, your food, your exercise.  Note where the pain hurts, what makes it worse, what makes it better.  I document mine daily and include a drawing of where my pain is in my body.  Take that journal or whatever you write/type it in to your doctor appointment and discuss.  Keep pushing!

Hi Aklong:

That's an awful lot of pain you're having, and I wish you didn't have it.

I hesitate to ask this question because my mom passed when I was barely 17: where is your mom in all this? I ask because you absolutely need an adult ally and champion. That sucks, but it will help you get the medical profession to pay attention.

What you describe isn't anything normal to period pain. Beyond that I can't say because I'm not a doctor, nor is anyone else here. Still:

- The scan they did cannot ever rule endo in or out. Only a laparoscopy can do that and it's hard work to get docs to do one on a 17 year old.

- Start keeping a log of the major symptoms. Just write them down and don't say what you think they are. 2 reasons for that are that it's best not to direct a doctor's attention in a particular direction as that can stop them thinking openly of all possibilities, and because it perturbs them enough when adults do it so quintuple that perturbation to get a glimmer of how they feel when teens do it.

- Stay away from ALL internet diagnosing. It will not help you and it will increase your stress. Stress aggravates pain and pain causes stress so we need to eliminate any source of stress that we can and this is an easy one. Support groups are okay so long as you understand that just because someone else had the same symptoms, it doesn't mean that the same disease caused the symptoms.

- You need to see a gynecologist and a urologist. They may want to do tests and may want you to see a gastroenterologist, too. Some of their tests will be unpleasant but must be done in order to make sure exactly what is happening inside of you.

- If you are in the States, an ED is a tough place to go with any pain other than chest pain but especially tough for any woman's abdominal pain. They will instantly class you as drug-seeking. It goes in your file and the doc sees that every time you go in. What I do is announce at every turn starting with sign-in that I'm NOT looking for pain meds but need to know the cause of the pain. You must train anyone who goes with you that they can't never say, "You've gotta give her something for the pain