martha
i too went through endometriosis....i have 5 sisters and they are all in bad shape tooIn "97" I had a ectopic that ended up exspoding...removed left tube from the damage...."98" Exsteme pain again...removel of rest of female organs.In the mix of all that ...i developed what they called reflux ,dificulty swallowing,extreme wheezing,troubles digesting anything...even water,if i could get it to go down. In 2000 they tried more test, more pills...bad flare up again. Now it is 2004 and i'm really bad again.It seams about ever 3 or 4 months it really rock and rolls in there...the symptoms are alot more painfull and going.i went to the emergency room thinking i was having a heart attack...3 weeks ago. I am bieng run through a gauntlet again.In the info from the edometrioses it talks about the leesons you get can travel into your upper body parts.If those leesons can cause pain in your lower ...why not the upper?????.Now they are going to look for a bad gull bladder and scope me.I have lower back pain along with this problem ..they say nothing to do with the rest.OH and we can not forget the fact that i smoke cigarettes and all my troubles could be from them.I have been reading other stories in here ...people with they're gallbladder removed.If it does not get rid of the pain ..why are they taking organs out of people. please anybody that give me some kind of info ..I really need help.. martha