11/7/2023 0 Comments Endometriosis abdominal swellingI get really constipated on my period as well and I think my endometriosis affects that part of my body too because it hurts so badly. It takes my breath away and makes me nauseous. I only get pain during my periods and it feels like someone is ripping apart my intestines while lighting them on fire. I found that the side effects caused by birth control outweighed the side effects caused by heavy duty pain killers so I stuck to the pain killers. It’s prescribed usually for people recovering from surgery and it doubles as an anti inflammatory agent which helps a ton! I tried all different kinds of birth control and let me tell you ladies, chemically altering your hormones to stop your period definitely helps with the pain but it causes so many other issues, you just have to pick your poison. I find Ketorolac Tromethamine works well enough. Tylenol doesn’t touch the pain even if I take 800-1000mg so I moved onto prescription pain management. I am still pretty young so my endometriosis hasn’t reached its peak yet and that fact terrifies me because it already ranges from 8/10-10/10 on the pain scale if I don’t take anything for it. I broke my left shin bone when I was five years old and I would describe endometriosis pains as worse than that. I do wonder if I have endo or something else because I suspect I have either two separate issues or one big one. I could go into a lot longer detail but it’s confusing and long. I see a chiropractor to put it back into place and sometimes it’ll feel better for 3-4 days and other times it’ll mess up within a few hours of an adjustment. It’s caused very strange and usual pain symptoms. Either there’s an issue with the joint itself, the ligaments/ muscles surrounding the joints or something else we haven’t thought of. Sometimes they can have issues where they cause pain but in my case the joints aren’t staying together. It’s the two joints in the base of your spine that hold your hips to your sacrum and spine. Makes me feel as if I’m going crazy but I know I’m not. It’s been awful being doubted by doctors and family members. Well ever since that cyst and surgery my body hasn’t been the same. Hopefully it holds, just enjoying each good day as it lasts. I’ve been pretty content since then though. I just had to grit my teeth through it and lie about why I would call out every other month once I did get a job (still could only handle part time though) until all the treatments started working last fall. No one really questioned me bc I was “sick” with endo through most of 2020 so it was pretty lonely too with the plague and all. Second doc did the surgery herself finally, then I got sent to the specialist with lots of pretty pictures and blood work and a laundry list of pain drugs that didn’t work and they were like yeah babe that’s 1000% endo (and vaginismus, pelvic floor dysfunction, presence of multiple ovarian cysts, and PCOS) and you have other underlying conditions let’s start hitting them with drugs, PT, therapy, and call me if you need more drugs).īut I couldn’t work or go to school for awhile and it was pretty depressing not gonna lie. I still had to go to like 7 doctors before I found two who believed me but were out of their depth and finally got sent to a pelvic pain specialist following a laparoscopy (recommended by both the docs who believed me but didn’t know what treatment to start on, the first one recommended a surgeon who refused to give me a lap on the grounds that he thought I was merely depressed. Well, I haven’t had a bad flare since Halloween, so my current treatment is holding (orlissa + a very large constant dose of progesterone bc for some reason my endometrium wouldn’t ever thin out even after 30-40 days of bleeding.)
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