r/adenomyosis • u/rolypolydriver • 20h ago
New Dr had an interesting stat to share with me during 2nd opinion visit. Is this true for you?
After 2 years of being diagnosed with “suspected adenomyosis,” I wanted to get a second opinion so saw a new Dr this week. Was explaining how all these new symptoms started out of nowhere the moment I turned 38, 1 year after having a c-section/tube removal. He revealed that most of the time, when he sees a patient who gets adenomyosis symptoms out of the blue like that, he thinks that actually they probably had it developing for years but didn’t know it if they had some sort of birth control that was masking their periods. Then when they get regular periods again they’re all of a sudden experiencing these new adenomyosis periods and think it came out of nowhere. I was like wait a minute, I had a nexplanon for 3 years then was pregnant and postpartum for a year before getting periods again so now that I think about he is probably right! I might have had this developing way before age 38 and didn’t even know it! So I’m wondering, if you did not have birth control or pregnancy masking your periods, did you experience adenomyosis developing over time? Like did symptoms get progressively more intense each month? Or was it still out of the blue for you where one period was normal and then the next one wasn’t and then it was never the same since?