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Monthly cycle and LS

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Morrell1951
Morrell1951

I'm starting to wonder whether the monthly flares some of us have mentioned here aren't really simply the return to symptoms after an ovulation-related mini-remission. I've decided to begin charting my symptoms to see.

Only twice in this year since my diagnosis have I noticed a pronounced clearing-up of the white patch accompanied by the lubrication, slight swelling and feelings of arousal that go with ovulation (even well past menopause, as I am). But now I'm wondering whether I just didn't notice it ten other times.

I'm thinking this partly because someone here said pregnancy is accompanied by hormones that suppress rejection of foreign tissue – in other words, suppress the mechanism that's gone into overdrive and caused LS.

So I wonder if there isn't a spurt of the same hormones mid-cycle.

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  • sha1271
    sha1271 Morrell1951

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    I started the pill at age 18 took it for 9 years.  Had no symtoms of LS until after my second child and had my tubes tied.  No one in my family has it. Thought perhaps my mother had it under breasts but the symptoms didnt fit. ( just irritation and rash)    
    • hanny32508
      hanny32508 sha1271

      Posted

      Sha,

      I have irritation under breasts as well.  Didn't think it was related to LS, but perhaps it is.

  • hanny32508
    hanny32508 Morrell1951

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    Chrisy,

    Very similar walk I made.  Endometrioses as well.  (and what causes that?)  Relieve during pregnancy and a little while after that.  Hysterectomy at age 42.  I keep wondering - are there links to LS somehow?  Would one thing lead to another?  If this - then that? 

    • Chrisy
      Chrisy hanny32508

      Posted

      Sorry, hit wrong button.  I think I had it mildly all my life but my hysterectomy really kicked it into full swing.
  • hanny32508
    hanny32508 Morrell1951

    Posted

    Hi Chrisy,

    Hard to tell whether the LS started after the hysterectomy.  It might have, thinking back at some of the discomfort.  The diagnoses of LS was only since last year.  The discomfort much longer.  In 2006 I started to go to the GP for this, but it was considered a yeast infection at the time.  Till I started to have difficulties urinating, and I thought that there may be something with the blatter.  Intercourse was already too difficult by that time.  The year was 2012.  Only since 2013 was LS biopsied and diagnosed.

    • Chrisy
      Chrisy hanny32508

      Posted

      Most of us seem to have similar stories.  Just listened to the webinair by Dr Goldstein.  Really confirmed all my dermatologist told me.  Worth listening to.  I am going to look into causes of endometriosis too as my daughter has symptoms for this and PCOS too.  I hate to think of her going undiagnosed as long as I did.
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