Well since I was 7 years old, I was treated for depression/anxiety and was on medicine for a long time. I've been taking medicine since then, then they treated me for Bipolar Disorder at 16. I think I was misdiagosed and they made a mistake, giving me mood stabilizers and had suicidal thoughts every day, and also to mention the unstoppable weight gain. I felt worse on the medicines than off of them. Since this past February they made me try mood stabilizers and I went down hill from that. I told them no more, and since then I feel amazing. It's just the anxiety part. They do prescribe me with Clonozepam for those moments that are really bad. I still have a therapist and talk to her bi-weekly.

About the first 2-3 weeks after school started I had a cyst on my ovary and was admitted to the hospital and they feared that they need to take it out just in case and couldn't eat for 3 days. It ruptured, and still had severe pain and couldn't walk, making me withdraw from that semester of college adding more stress. I was diagnosed with Endometriosis the day after my birthday and had pain since then. The pain can be so awful, all I want to do is take dilaudid and lay down. I take birth control to slow the Endometrial growth, and nausea and going to the bathroom a lot is the side effects, along with the Endometriosis and it's a double whammy. The pain basically have a mind of its own, but very bad around my period where I'm confined to my bed.

As for a job, I haven't had one since February 2008. Now that I have this disease plus the anxiety, I'm afraid to have a job but really want to work. My concerns are that if I do get a job, should I reveal my illness or just suck it up? I'm afraid they won't understand me and won't let me work. I really really want my employers to understand and not penalize me for my illness if I need to sit down a couple of minutes. I'm afraid if I have to go to the bathroom and they won't let me, my anxiety starts in and the stress and everything else.

I don't know what else to do, I feel very stuck and a bum because of all these stupid illnesses I've got. Any advice is great, and a big thanks in advance

It angers me to the core that no one, not even doctors, have any knowledge about Endometriosis!! People need to be educated about it! I take birth control like I said in my last post... I wasn't even going for a full time position anyways because I know my limits. Part time is what I was aiming for in the first place. Here is a link to educate yourself AND others about it.

http://www.endo-resolved.com/endometriosis.html

SexualHealthConnection.com?

You're referring a young woman with endometriosis here because this site is an "anxiety" site. Is dealing with a disease not an acceptable source of anxiety?

Ridiculous! You couldn't get on Wikipedia or Google and educate yourself for 10 minutes on a disease but you can give advice for it? Lame.

I have endometriosis and have problems keeping a job too. The pain is sporadic but not periodic, persistant, and tends to comove with stress levels especially. It's disruptive to our schedule, Eileen, because the pain is so invasive that somedays I wake up in so much pain, I have the option of taking a pain killer that makes me loopy for not hours, but a day and a half - or I can lay in bed and scream. The pain is so bad that I swear, toss around because I cannot stay still and I yell and scream. It feels like someone is open performing surgery on my body.

Then, when I am having a "good day" it means I only get the shooting pain up my butt, here and there. Since my disease has gotten worse, I have to go to the bathroom on average 6 - 10 times a day, with urgency. I also have continuity issues with urination and it takes me several goes to fully empy my bladder. I can barely have sex with my boyfriend because if he gets too excited and goes too deep, I am screaming in pain.

I did not plan this path in life, I used to be an athlete and I ran half marathons. Now for someone who is in their mid twenties, I am very immoble and lonely.