Hi Megan,

I know what you mean with the persistent low grade pain that nags.  It’s happening here.  LOL!  Not serious enough to do something constructive about it but nagging enough to be worrisome.

I’d go with your natural instincts on that one.  Me personally I would raise the meds w/o my Doctors consent if I had anything so much as a mild headache. lolol.  *rolls eyes upward and grins *

Your brave in waiting.  I dont think the flank pain is normal and would do as Lynne says.  As always there is a moral to the story, and sounds from Lynne’s story that it is better to keep pushing until they solve the problem. 

I was told last week that  fibroids do not always show up unless they are atleast 1-2 cm in size.  I guess thats big enough to cause problems with ureters and stuff.  Fibroids usually are needing estrogen to grow and I suppose it is not altogether silly enough to wonder if any uterine tissue is left in the pelvic cavity that this would form fibroids.  thats is if you still have ovaries and are producing normal estrogen levels to feed the fobroids in the first place.  Not sure...just mindless speculation there. 

Endometriosis is uterine tissue that has migrated outside the uterus and sually occurs after the immune system is depressed to my mind or after surgery in the pelvis.  I’d imagine with an hysteroectomy though, there is less chance of it happening, unless you have fibroids before they removed the uterus and they have just simply grown.  The ureters can simply kink and cause what Lynne had.  This happened to me when they didnt catheterise me in labor as I have recounted before because the bladder became very distended.  An ultrasound scan will pick that up though I’d say.  

Having a full bladder will help them to look at things better.  So perhaps raising meds and drinking plenty will mean you can hold more water and have things hydrated more?  I’d say having a lack of cortisol at this time would tend to make it harder to see stuff and things would be smaller where bladder is concerned due to cortisol having some fluid retaining properties.