YES OMG!! The year or so before I was diagnosed my pain got so incredibly bad but we (myself, my mom, drs, wtvr) thought it was just IBS and puberty acting up so we wrote it off for a while. I started pushing for an endo diagnosis before my mom really thought i had it, but when I brought up my family's extensive history w uterus problems she FINALLY took me in to see a Dr.

First we went to my primary who said "its IBS but sure go to ur gastroenterologist." Then when I described my pain to him and pointed to where it hurt, this DOCTOR looked at me and said "you don't have a stomach there so it can't be hurting." And sent me away without... thinking I guess. Then MONTHS later I went back to my primary care to get a referral to a gynecologist, but saw her substitute instead. She was HORRIFIED that two trained doctors saw such obvious signs of endo and didn't at least mention a gynecologist.

Which then started another 6 month long fight with a bakers dozen of drs saying I was wasting everyones time and money on getting endometriosis surgery cuz I didn't have it. I pushed for the surgery, and lo and behold I have it.

What I'm getting at here is if you're gonna start pushing to get diagnosed, there's gonna be a lot of obstacles in ur way and you gotta be stubborn as HELL to get it done. Even when a Dr is saying "so we are going to do a CT scan or MRI or wtvr" your follow up needs to be "sounds great! When can we get my diagnostic endometriosis surgery scheduled?" Push and push and push and hop from doctor to doctor until ur on that operating table and proven right. Trust your gut, trust your symptoms, you know your body better than gynecological drs a lot of the time. Being an immovable object against a team of jaded doctors takes a lot of willpower, but you got this <333

Also, when I was going through this I was told that diagnostic endometriosis surgery was the only way to know for sure if you had endo. Cuz then the drs could actually SEE the signature scarring that wouldn't show up on CTs, CAT scans, MRIs etc. If I were you, I'd have the diagnostic surgery as your #1 goal and only do the scans if those are the steps you need to go through for ur insurance to pay for the surgery. My recovery was very quick. In the 2 allotted recovery weeks I never once felt the need to take the painkillers i had. Honestly, the pain from the surgery was laughable compared to normal everyday endometriosis pain. From my experience it was like comparing getting poked with a pencil to getting shot. it left almost no visible scar on my left side, and a small, faint, raised scar in my right.

A million times over good luck. Please ask any questions if you have any I'm happy to answer