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Post by Karen on Jan 20, 2010 7:46:28 GMT -5
Ugh, sorry Keri, that sucks. Have you said, 'uh, yeah, I'm shocked that this isn't all over too!' It's not like you WANT to be feeling how you are!
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Post by KSA on Jan 20, 2010 13:26:23 GMT -5
She does not get it and my husband does not have the knowlegde to tell her. He says surgery went well or she is doing better or when Im not things are not so good and so on. I do not feel like explaining to her again what this disease is or what it does to your body. I have done it already and she is a intelligent educated women if she has not understood it yet she never will. I think that she is more on the selfish side of things anyways so it is useless to talk to someone like that. She got mad at us when my husband told her I would not be down (Florida) next month for our nephews bris ceremony. She asked my husband why I would not be able to travel? When he explained I was recoverying she said well then you should just come. Nice huh just tell him to leave his wife when I had surgery and a kidney stone. That is what I am dealing with a non compassionate mother in law!
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Post by hellsbells on Jan 20, 2010 13:51:28 GMT -5
Biatch!!!!
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Post by pamelaj on Jan 20, 2010 20:00:15 GMT -5
I just had to post here...
So i started a new full time job and was in alot of pain one day. A girl around me asked what was wrong so i told her. She then asked if i wanted an extra strength tylenol and when i told her that would barely touch the pain, i told her what i normally take. This is what she said after i told her what was wrong with me
"Well how long does it take to recover from that? Is it like the flu?"
My god how i wish it was. 7-10 days would be much better than a lifetime
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Post by sunshine78 on Jan 21, 2010 0:14:55 GMT -5
HA, yeah... that would be a f*cking CAKEwalk.
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Post by uncomfortable on Feb 1, 2010 19:47:52 GMT -5
I was talking to a friend of mine who asked how I was doing health wise. I told him I wasn't feeling so great, that the provera I am on has been giving me some mild hot flashes, and I was having trouble adjusting to them. So he asked what the alternatives are. I explained that Danazol was something my doctor brought up as another option (I explained to him its a testosterone derivative)
His response: What, your not already enough of a tomboy, they have to give you testosterone too?
ok, I *think* he was trying to be funny, but really? I was already feeling pretty disgusting as it was.
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Post by sunshine78 on Feb 1, 2010 23:42:14 GMT -5
Tell him, "Yeah, I know! I already can kick the sh*t out of you, but imagine how much harder I could do it with some testosterone!"
lol, I hate people.
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Post by uncomfortable on Feb 2, 2010 11:12:57 GMT -5
lol! yeah, that would have been a good response. I think I was too annoyed at the time to say anything. HE Asked ME how I was doing, and that's all he can say! UGH. Guys are jerks
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Post by Tara on Feb 9, 2010 14:43:01 GMT -5
I am so tired of a coworker of mine, who comes into my office daily to tell me what her period is doing, or what her bowels are doing....Yes I'm a nurse, but I'm not her nurse....And she know's that I was just diagnosised with Endo, and has had no sympathy for me, even after my surgery....most times when she comes by I have a secret heating pad on my lap under my desk, but yet I have to sit and listen to her problems. Not once has she asked me how I am feeling. I'm just so tired of it  |
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Post by Karen on Feb 9, 2010 18:10:52 GMT -5
Ha - tell her you'll trade her problems for yours! Or perhaps ask her for an update on her period when she's in front of others?  Of course I'm joking - I'd never have the balls to say those things, but I certainly don't think thinking those things makes me a bad person! |
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Post by kpcorbett on Feb 13, 2010 13:58:54 GMT -5
my mom always says to me just breathe. walk around the house. it's just stress. you'll feel okay tomorrow. I'm just like no I can't walk around the house I'm in too much pain.
Then she had the nerve to ask if I was addicted to the Percocet?
I'm on Lexapro and Wellbutrin for my depression and anxiety and she had the nerve to ask me if it was in the my mind. Seriously? You're my mother.
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Post by hellsbells on Feb 13, 2010 14:10:55 GMT -5
I think mothers find it difficult - they don't like to see us in pain and not be able to do anything about it, so they grasp at straws and end up saying stupid things. Try and calmly explain to her how you're feeling, and tell her sometimes you just need a hug from your mum.........
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Post by Kitty on Feb 28, 2010 18:53:44 GMT -5
Ya i just dont think ppl really get it. My mom is just like "well you have immune issues just get used to it." ....
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Post by cherry on Mar 7, 2010 18:54:15 GMT -5
A summary of the disease in a tabloid paper (on the crappy sex dilemmas page in the back) was just laughable. Endo week in the UK and the rag couldn't even get a 4 inch long 2 column insert right. They made it sound like PCOS!
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Post by desertflower on Mar 16, 2010 6:53:43 GMT -5
Everytime I talk to a doctor, they just tell me I have IBS and overweight. They seem to think if I loss the weight (which I have been trying for years) that all my pain would be gone. Or just claim that I have painful periods.
Though the dumbest thing I hear is people say is "just go out and do things, you'll feel better" yet they don't understand that the pain at times and anxiety is what is stopping me from going out.
Mom always tells me to just walk around the house, use a heating pad and take Tylenol. She means well I guess, I just wished she understood what I'm going through.
What surprises me the most is that I'm studying to get my associates degree in Health Information Management and doing so you studying pathology as well, so endometrisos comes up from time to time yet doctors still don't seem to get it.
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