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As someone with endo, I can't recommend having laproscopic surgery enough. I also implore you to visit a doctor who will take an ultrasound of your uterus and ovaries. While you are right about needing laproscopic surgery to diagnose endo, if you have endo that is severe enough you it is possible to see evidence of it on the ultrasound. Endo is more than just period pain, its sticky legions that can push and pull and twist and in rare cases, even strangle your reproductive organs. For years, when regular gyno's explained endo to me they always acted like the surgery was not worth it, and told me that even if I had the surgery to get the diagnosis that endo cannot be cured. That wasn't true. I found myself a doctor who specializes in endometriosis (shout out to the amazing Dr. Pendergrass in Portland, OR. Look her up!) My doctor was able to see signs of extreme endo just by ordering an ultrasound for me. I had a large endometrial cyst on one of my ovaries, and my uterus and cervix were visibly mishaped and unnaturally pulled the the left side of my body. Surgery later confirmed that this was caused by my endo literally pulling and sticking my organs together. No wonder I was in so much pain. But must importantly, and skilled surgeon/doctor is not going to perform a lapo and then sew you up and give you the diagnosis. A skilled doctor will perform the lapo and then cut every piece of endo that they can see and safely get to out of you. Absolutley no doctor is going to perform a hystorectomy without your consent and it deffinetly should not be the go-to solution to endo. Back in my mothers time, the only way to remove endo was burning it with lazers, but that is no longer the case. Gynecological surgeons who are skilled and special in endo are now able to use a minimally invasive robotics surgery to not only cut out endo legions, but to cut them out by the root so that there is a decreased chance of them growing back. My doctor also gave me a progesterone based IUD to prevent regrowth. (Progerstone prevents endo growth, while estrogen promotes it, so pay attention to what hormones are in your birth control). While it's true that I could potentially need another surgery years down the road, I wouldn't trade my surgery for the world. I was diagnosed with stage 3 endo and at the time of my diagnosis Dr. Pendergrass removed all of it. Beyond freeing me from my unbearable menstrual pain, she freed me from other constant pain I didnt even realize I was living with, she potentially saved me from needing a hysterectomy down the road, saved my ovary and left It intact, and gave me my life back. My endo surgery was the best decision I ever made. It's important to remember that the painful periods you are experiencing are more than just pain, even though you can't see it, the pain is there to tell you that something is wrong and that your reproductive organs are being compromised. I'm glad CBD is helping to manage your pain, but I implore you to seek freedom from your endo.