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Post by omaklackey on Sept 6, 2009 21:13:39 GMT -5
You do know that you can bleed even when your pregnant? Some women continue to have a regular cycle while pregnant. Its rare but it happens. Is the weight is in your waist specifically?
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Post by JC on Sept 7, 2009 12:20:06 GMT -5
The pregnancy thing did cross my mind. I've taken pregnancy tests and they're negative. The weight is a pretty even distribution all over my body, especially in the hips and belly. I've considered going to the doc but I think it's just the combination of being off all summer with nothing to do and my hormones being all out of wack from the lap. This summer was the first time in my entire life that I had NOTHING to do. And 15lbs I really believe is a huge deal for me. I've been an athlete my entire life, very thin and lean muscle. To randomly gain 15lbs is just absolutely bizzare for me. The constipation is really freaking annoying because I get to the point where I feel like I'm carrying a brick in my stomach and then I'll take the milk of magnesia and deal with the diarrhea. I've never had all these stupid problems until I had that lap. I'm hoping my body gets back to normal!
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Post by omaklackey on Sept 7, 2009 12:37:11 GMT -5
have you tried the pysilium fiber? Because what your dealing with I have been dealing with this summer too... contipated or going to fast! I couldnt find the happy in between. I'm doing much better on the fiber though. Its been two weeks and I seem to be getting to some where almost normal... LOL
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Post by JC on Sept 7, 2009 15:02:20 GMT -5
I'll have to get that. It sounds like something I need because it's either diarrhea or constipation. I'd love to be regular again!  |
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Post by omaklackey on Sept 7, 2009 15:27:31 GMT -5
The kicker is remembering to take it. your body tends to remind you pretty quick when you screw it up! I spent the other evening while my company was enjoying themselves, on the toilet. It wasn't very fun
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Post by Karen on Sept 8, 2009 20:20:30 GMT -5
Hmm, have you tried taking a probiotic every day? It gives your intestines the good bacteria it needs to work properly, naturally (same premise as all the 'new' yogurts out there to help with irregularity). Floregen (sp?) is a great brand that I've used. You can find it in the refrigerated section of health food stores.
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Post by omaklackey on Sept 8, 2009 20:45:39 GMT -5
actually I asked Ouchy about the psyilim fiber and she brought up doing both the probiotic's and the fiber to help all of us with IBS like symptoms.
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Post by JC on Sept 23, 2009 19:19:24 GMT -5
I just want to freakin rant that I feel like the lap I had only made my life worse. It gave me about one month of feeling euphoric, no pain.. it was wonderful. Now, things hurt again but instead of just being random pains, now I have a whole list of grocery problems that I NEVER had before.
1. SEVERE PMS.. I'm a psycho bitch now.
2. late periods which exacerbate #1
3. constipation
4. weight gain
5. mood swings
6. depression
Serioulsy, I could go on and on.. WTF?!?! Why would a lap throw me all out of wack like this? I almost regret it!
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Post by ouchy on Sept 23, 2009 22:19:02 GMT -5
^A lot of that sounds hormonal, especially the late periods. Unless your ovaries got effed with while you were under, I doubt the lap acutally caused it. Rather, something else hormonal probably happened around the same time. Try charting your temps for a cycle or two, and you may have your answers.
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Post by sunshine78 on Sept 23, 2009 23:37:02 GMT -5
I feel like the only thing my lap has done for me is take the hip harpoons away... and I may have a couple of more (literally, like 2 or 3) days during the month when I'm pain free. I'm hoping that everything will even out, and I won't continue to constantly get the ovary harpoons with the twisting.
Sounds like it could be worse, so I'm counting my blessings.
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Post by JC on Sept 24, 2009 4:10:01 GMT -5
^A lot of that sounds hormonal, especially the late periods. Unless your ovaries got effed with while you were under, I doubt the lap acutally caused it. Rather, something else hormonal probably happened around the same time. Try charting your temps for a cycle or two, and you may have your answers. I just don't get what happened. I was so regular with my periods for YEARS. It came on exactly the 28th day at 11am. And I never had consitpation. I could set my clock to that too! I never used to get PMS. My pms is so bad this month that I feel like I can't even step out of the house and I'm sitting here contemplating just not going to school because I'm so psycho and homicidal. This is severely impacting my quality of life, I can't concentrate in school, I can't even be around people without getting imediately furious over little things. WHAT HAPPENED TO ME!?!? I didn't have all these problems until I had my lap. |
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Post by Karen on Sept 24, 2009 6:59:07 GMT -5
I kind of feel the same way as you, Jenaya, although the mood swings and depression for me have gotten a lot better in the last few months. I'm convinced it's due to a hormonal imbalance (for me at least), too, and have been doing some reading up on it and am trying natural progesterone cream to attempt to balance things out a bit. We'll see... Here's a checklist I found that really made me think about things a bit more: www.virginiahopkinstestkits.com/womentest.htmlWhen I mentioned it to my general practitioner last week, she was clueless about hormone levels, and had the balls to say 'well, even if we do find out your hormones are off balance, we wouldn't do anything unless you were trying to get pregnant'. So that's the ONLY reason you'd want to get things normalized, if that is indeed the problem? Grr. I reminded her I still have pain throughout the last half of my cycle in addition to a few other more minor things, which is why I wanted to look into it, and she basically shrugged me off to my gyn. Since I'm unemployed right now, can't really afford the specialty copay, so it'll have to wait until I get a real job. Oh, and when I talked to her about the weight gain and asked her to check my thyroid, she told me if it were my thyroid that were off, my weight wouldn't be fluctuating like it has been, and maybe I'm consuming more calories than I think I am, and when I told her I've tracked my calories and workouts for months and still saw wacky fluctuations (lose 5, gain 4, all within 2 weeks) based on my cycles, she said I could go see a nutritionist. Ugh, yeah, that's exactly what I need, to pay someone to tell me I'm doing the right things for the most part! Ugh! It's a new GP and I liked her the first time I went to see her, but not so much now... Hope you were able to make it to school.  |
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Post by JC on Sept 24, 2009 13:36:04 GMT -5
I'm sure it's a hormonal imbalance for me too. I just wish I knew the sudden cause in it. I'm 26.. do we go through hormonal changes in late 20's?
UGHHHHHH I wish I could just break a bunch of sh*t right now I'm sooooooo pent up with anger.
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Post by omaklackey on Sept 24, 2009 14:32:06 GMT -5
You do need to get your hormones checked but I believe all the poking around at our uterus's and ovaries messes it up. I know when i got the ablation all the doctors said it wouldn't do anything to us but every single women had problems after the procedure. I think it takes awhile to level out.
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Post by Karen on Sept 24, 2009 17:38:15 GMT -5
I was told after my lap that it's possible for your ovaries to be 'angry' (yes, that's the word my NP used...) after being poked and moved around, that it can throw off hormone production for a while. She didn't say how long.
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