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Post by omaklackey on Sept 26, 2009 17:56:43 GMT -5
I'm with you Pamela, I'm so ready to be out of this particular thread! Just gotta make it through the recovery. lOL
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Post by JC on Sept 27, 2009 6:32:09 GMT -5
^^ hey yeah! you don't have to period rant anymore! YAY!
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Post by KSA on Sept 27, 2009 19:28:09 GMT -5
O gosh I better get a few more rants in before my surgery on Oct 21st less than a month away from getting my uterus taken out! YEAH! Well I am bloated looking a few months preggers. I went for a hike with my sister today and was really thinking it would help. NOPE! I can't move now LOL! My doc has me taking Provera to stop my bleeding since I really do not have a cycle anymore I just bleed anytime they gave me 20 pills for the bleeding. It does not seem to be working atleast not yet. 3 or 4 more days and I should not be bleeding. Awww can Oct please come a little faster:) I never thought I would be this excited to go in for surgery!
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Post by JC on Sept 29, 2009 4:16:15 GMT -5
^^ WTF, how did I miss that?!!? You're having a hysterectomy!?!??!
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Post by KSA on Sept 29, 2009 16:21:23 GMT -5
Thats ok Jenaya. I am not sure how many posts I have made about it on here. I have been so out of it and not on that much because of all my medical issues. It is really bad for me non stop bleeding and since I already had a uterine ablation the docs think this is the way to go. I was trying to save my little uterus for a long time but it's time to have it taken out. I get to keep my ovaries for a little longer but in a few years he willl take those too. He did not wan't to set me into menapause right now because of all my other medical problems. Doc did'nt think my body could handle it right now. So the above post is prob one of my last period rants:)
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Post by omaklackey on Sept 29, 2009 17:03:40 GMT -5
Well ovaries or no ovaries Keri, you will have to join us on the Uterus free thread. Hoping we can give everyone some hope for life after endo!
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Post by KSA on Sept 29, 2009 20:30:34 GMT -5
Karla I am curious maybe I am misunderstanding but did your doc tell you that your Endo will be gone after your hysterectomy? Maybe because you got your ovaries out? My doc was upfront with me that with or without a hysterectomy I will always have Endo. He is a believer that you are born with it and you never get rid of it. Mine is all over but he can't really take my bladder and bowel out. LOL! I just figured I was always going to have Endo and that there is not life after Endo we are just stuck with it for life. Am I wrong? Of course I will join the Uterus free thread:) I look forward to it. Is that the thread that we rant about our bladder and bowels? Or our progestrone creams LOL!
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Post by omaklackey on Sept 29, 2009 21:29:06 GMT -5
Nope, I have way... to much endo for it to just diseapear, stage 4 bladder, bowels, you name it!. i know he didn't get it all and I'm having the same old twinges. BUT without the monthly uterus pain and the pain from my very damaged ovaries, I should still be better off. I had Massive Adenomysois (endo inside the muscle of the uterus) and my last ovary grew another HUGE endometrioma in only 3 months so I'm better without that ovary too. Menopausal but not bad! Uterus free though! Took a long time deciding it was the right thing to do and got three seperate doctors opinions.
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Post by moodychick on Oct 2, 2009 17:14:05 GMT -5
I'm either early or late with my periods. I may not have as much pain as I used to, but I'm very moody. They last anyehere from 3-7 days. My parents know to stay away when I'm in 1 of my moods. My boyfriend does the same thing. I too have to schedule my life around my period from time to time, if you ladies get my drift. LOL! Sorry, brain was in the gutter there for a moment. LOL! I did the heating pad thing at work, and my co-workers know to stay back. It's a never ending stoey. LOL!
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Post by JC on Oct 2, 2009 18:12:24 GMT -5
^^ aww yeah I understand ya. When I'm in one of my raging phases (5 days before my period) I should really just lock myself up in the bedroom and stay away from society. lol
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Post by omaklackey on Oct 3, 2009 23:14:05 GMT -5
Oh Man! I always knew the dreaded Aunt Flo was on its way because I turned into a raving maniac!!
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Post by hellsbells on Oct 4, 2009 6:19:29 GMT -5
Can anyone tell me where I can get a heating pad? Any websites or anything? What names do they go under?
I seem to get different symptoms in different months. Some months I'm a raging lunatic, others I just get really weepy. My most reliable indicator now is that I start being able to 'go' the day before I come on, and then I know the second it actually happens because the cramp starts. :-(
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Post by omaklackey on Oct 4, 2009 12:31:14 GMT -5
Try any drugstore? I belive some of them ship worldwide? Walgreens etc...?
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Post by sunshine78 on Oct 6, 2009 3:43:29 GMT -5
Oh, man... I just go to CVS/Walgreens, if I need a heating pad, either the kind that plugs in, or those Thermacare things. There are also those things you can heat/freeze, and depending what type of pain you're having, they can come in real handy. I believe you can get those at those type of places, as well.
And, now...
Another rant:
Okay, so we're all pretty well-versed with the weepiness/crabiness or both. The hormonal rage usually works to my advantage, and tends to crack my family up, as witnesses. The weepiness, however... sometimes, I wonder if it is the hormones, or if I'm more sensitive than I'd like to admit. It's tough being a hard-ass who sometimes goes soft.
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Post by JC on Oct 11, 2009 11:19:03 GMT -5
I think I have my answers! I think I know what's wrong with me! Since my lap I've had some issues come up that I never had before; constipation, weight gain, severe (and I mean rage) severe PMS. After careful thinking and a lecture at school that made me go AHA!, I think I have figured out what has gone wrong.
So since my lap, I was pretty much non-mobile for about 3 months which is a first in my entire life to do absolutely NOTHING for such a long period of time. In that 3 months I gained 15lbs. In my women's health class we were discussing PMS and what can cause it to be more severe. Well one of them is obesity because apparently adipose tissue (fat cells) actually produce estrogen! Forgive me if you all knew this but I sure as hell didn't! But this also explains why female athletes with low body fat can sometimes cause their periods to disappear; low levels of estrogen! On another note, the teacher also mentioned that the severity of the PMS correlates to how sensitive a person is to estrogen. So I know that gaining 15lbs doesn't classify me as being obese but if I have a sensitity to estrogen then 15lbs of fat causing even the slighest increase of estrogen production can totally wreak havoc on my body. And it totally makes sense because I'm sensitive to EVERYTHING. I get allergic reactions to EVERYTHING and since I've been an athlete my whole life, just a slight bit of extra weight is a huge difference in my body. So the answer to all my problems : I need to lose this weight and get my lean low body fat back.
But this raises an interesting question, are all of us endo girls just having some type of pseudo allergic response to estrogen? It makes sense, we're all drug sensitive, we're all kinda PMSy (lol), and we have endometriosis which is thought to be fueled by estrogen. And on another tangent, my endo symptoms started when I stopped playing sports and just stuck to regular gym work outs every so often. less athletic=more fat cells=more estrogen.
Sorry to ramble but I'm so excited! I've been working out really hard every single day to get this weight off and I'm praying that this is the answer.
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