Scoliosis and hormone problems

[lrpfeil]

I have found links between the two in reading research. I'm wondering if anyone has experienced this. I have always had weird hormonal/gynecological things, including very "regular" irregular bleeding and all manner of things like endometriosis, pelvic adhesions, fibroids, PID, etc. etc. and irregular pap smears too.

I have extremely infrequent bouts of INTENSE pelvic pain and am contemplating laparascopy/hysteroscopy just to check things out...I'm also seeing my regular doc tomorrow to rule out other things, maybe do a coloscopy. Meanwhile, I wonder if I attribute some of my pain to my back when it's really more pelvic...but the fact that scoliosis and hormone problems go together (for women) might make this a common mix up!

Does anyone else have a history of gynecological abnormalities?

Oh I also have a heart shaped uterus...Why should I expect any part of me be shaped normally????:rolleyes:

[augemac]

I am with you on that one.

I had a full hysterectomy in Aug. of 2007. I was suffering with endometriosis but they also found that I had a lot of pelvic pain which was actually my bladder because of Interstitial Cystitis.

Makes sense in my head that when everything gets shifted around inside that it doesn't work as well as we hope. But not sure??

[macky]

I didnt start menstruating until after I had my harrington rod operation. They did tell me, whether it was true or not, that the side where the spine actually curved, well on me that was the right side, that my ovaries etc was not as mature as my left side.

It was about twelve months after the op, that my periods actually started and I was 15 which is a little late I guess. I have never had any other problems. I have gone through the change of life with out hardly even realising it, not a problem at all. I have been lucky I guess.
I dont know if that was all true about my insides before the op, but anyway thats what the specialist told me. Strange but true.

Macky

[lrpfeil]

Interesting. I was just at the doctor today about my pelvic pain and he said that basically we have ruled anything serious out already (i.e., cancer) and he was wondering if it is bladder spasms.

[SIsForSarah]

Like macky, I also didn't start menstruation until several months after my Harrington rod procedure. I was also 15. It took quite a few years for my period to become regular and I used to have cramps so bad they would make me nearly pass out. I also had hormonal acne in my teens and twenties (that improved when I was on the birth control pill). The problems were never connected to the scoliosis by my doctors, but that doesn't necessarily mean the connection wasn't there. The problems have all gotten better as I've gotten older.

[JenniferG]

I can't say I ever had hormonal problems until my fifties. Went through life without so much as a period pain, everything regular and normal, starting at 13. So I wasn't expecting the avalanche at 51 when suddenly my memory ceased to work, I had hot flashes up to 25 x a day, mood swings, insomnia. I'm coming out of it now, at 57, but still experience the hot flashes at least 7-8 times a day and occasionally up to 20 times a day.

Not sure if this is what you had in mind though.

[lrpfeil]

The stuff I found about scoliosis and hormone problems were about the kinds of things I've had, like irregular bleeding ALL MY LIFE, and I forget exactly what else. The theory was that these early hormonal problems were related to the development of scoliosis (some sort of irregular growth pattern).

On the other hand I have also heard that girls/women with scoliosis tend to be more frail and I am very very muscular.

What about that one? Are you more frail/small framed vs. muscular and medium framed???

[augemac]

Honey,

I could say up til about 4 years ago that I was small and frail but I came into my 30's and now I have put on weight!!

I do have a small frame, 5'1" with a 32" inseam. :D Ha ha hee hee

I also heard that people with scoliosis have crooked teeth. Now that doesn't apply to myself. The only thing I do have is a small mouth and had to get teeth removed so that all can fit and wore braces to get things where they should be but they weren't crooked just an overbite.

[JenniferG]

#7. Oh ok! :o

Well I was rake thin until my late 40s but I was 5'4" and medium boned. No longer rake thin, 64 kilos and getting shorter by the day. Hoping this tummy roll goes when they stretch me out again.;)

I don't think I fit your picture, but that doesn't mean, even if your theory is correct, that everyone will. It's interesting though.

[SIsForSarah]

I am small-boned and around the time I had my surgery, they were doing all these studies on the prevalence of scoliosis in ballet dancers who tend to me smaller-boned as well. So I would have been happier with that conclusion because...the conclusions they were making around the time they were doing these studies, were that not eating enough and too much exercise were the cause (since that tends to be the trend with ballet dancers)! I was a cross-country runner, did gymnastics, played tennis and squash, lots of biking, and wasn't a big eater - for years, I sort of thought that I caused my own scoliosis. Later, someone told me it could be genetic and it turned out my grandmother and her sister had mild cases of it. It was reassuring to find this website and realize there are many theories on it but no one knows for sure.

[debbei]

I've been irregular my whole life, and never connected the two issues. I wonder if there is some connection.

[lrpfeil]

I wasn't talking about body fat but actual bone/muscle structure;)

I'm sure there are lots of theories out there!