#started my period which caused my chronic pain to flare like crazy

[rubythecrimsonwriter]

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[rainbowinthemaking]

Endometriosis.

It takes on average 7-10 years to get a diagnosis for endometriosis. For me, 12 years. TWELVE YEARS!!! 

My first symptoms started like most when I first got my period. Some cycles were so heavy and the cramps absolutely debilitating. Sometimes to the point of temporarily losing my sight from the pain. I was told the women in my family had bad periods and brushed this off as normal. THIS IS NEVER NORMAL. I have told many doctors this and none of them have ever been concerned hearing this. That should’ve been a MAJOR RED FLAG. 

When I was around 16/17 I started getting random stabbing pains in my lower chest, extremely painful but gone as quick as they came. I had so many diagnostics done for it over the years but it remained a medical mystery.  Now I know this can also be symptom of endometriosis. 

When I was 20 I got off birth control and my entire world changed. My anxiety began to skyrocket. I developed severe depression and insomnia. At the time I didn’t think they were related, but looking back now, I see getting off birth control is when everything started to go downhill for me. 

In my early twenties I had somewhat gotten used to the pain. I popped naproxen like crazy during my periods and was never without a heating pad. Some cycles I’d have cysts rupture and the pain would be so bad I’d be calling Jordan to come home ASAP because I legitimately felt like I was dying and fighting to stay conscious. Luckily, I only had a few of these episodes a year. This is when I also started developing gastrointestinal issues, which I originally thought was linked to my anxiety, but even when I got that under control the gastro issues only got worse. 

After my miscarriage I developed Hidradenitis Suppurativa (a chronic skin disease also known as acne inversa). This typically flared up before mensturation but it took me a while to really notice this. While endo does not cause hidradenitis suppurativa quite a few people with hidradenitis suppurativa also have endometriosis. Also around the time of my miscarriage I developed hair-loss that never stopped. Now, two years later, I am still battling my thinning hairline. Unsurprisingly, hair-loss can be yet another symptom of endometriosis. 

Once I started our first IVF cycle I thought a lot of the symptoms I was experiencing were due to the medication and I’m sure a lot of them were. But once our first round ended and we ran out of embryos to transfer, I got off all the medications and didn’t feel any better. In fact, I felt worse. I was cramping 3/4 of each cycle. My fatigue became so extreme doing anything became such a challenge. My hips hurt, light pressure almost anywhere on my body was extremely painful, my legs frequently ached, migraines were occurring more often than they ever had. The nausea never went away. 

Once I started suspecting endo I started paying a lot more attention to my body. I’d check in with myself every couple hours everyday and see what hurt instead of dismissing all my aches and pains as normal. Almost every day at least a few things hurt, almost everyday there was some sort of a struggle when it came to living my life.

So I want to take a moment to get on my soapbox and say, these symptoms and many more are NOT NORMAL. Periods shouldn’t cause you immense pain, you shouldn’t have heavy periods with lots of clots. If you’re chronically exhausted from the point you wake up; you aren’t lazy, something is wrong. Go see your doctor and if your doctor dismisses you, find another. Don’t give up, you owe it to yourself. 

Endometriosis effects about 1 in 10 women — that’s about 176 million worldwide. This disease can only be 100% diagnosed via surgery. How many Endometriosis specialists are there worldwide? 100. Despite its high prevalence, research in endometriosis remains extremely underfunded. This has to change. 

[asherlockstudy]

Fair warning: this is an unpleasant post about my health and it might be a trigger to some. I just needed to get it out there, even if nobody reads this, I just had to.

This is the worst spring of my life so far. I am diagnosed with GERD, hiatal hernia and mild IBS. Or mild it was.

This spring I might have contracted some viral infection or most likely it was my severe anxiety that caused an unprecedented flare up of my IBS, which had always been extremely mild, almost unnoticeable.

For the last two months:

I can't breathe - especially deeply. My belly won't extend.

My chest hurts and burns and stings and I feel like an elephant sits on me.

My esophagus or stomach feels like it's getting strangled. It is twisting 24/7.

Pain extends to my heart and my back.

My back feels like it is on fire.

I have frequently a temperature of 37+/- 0,2 C which is technically normal but it is high for me and it feels uncomfortable. I actually feel like I am on fire regardless of the temperature.

I have acid reflux.

I have constipated diarrhea - for real.

But mostly it's just constipation that makes my intestines hurt like crazy.

I can't eat sitting down and without sweating.

During my worst days which are the majority I only sleep when I basically faint from exhaustion.

I cry all the time. About everything but mostly about my state.

Bowel movements don't bring me relief - they make me much much worse.

The bloating is so extreme that I feel like I am about to explode at any moment and the organs will tear apart. I burp like 4500000 times per day. And it doesn't sound like a burp, it sounds like plain air release from a balloon or something. I can't expel the rest of the trapped gas (u know which one) to fucking save my life - literally. Despite all that, my belly is not visibly very distended... which I fear makes me feel even worse. At this point it feels like the trapped gas has created negative pressure inside the intestines and it only keeps increasing.

I started having PMS symptoms out of nowhere too. My breasts got swollen, heavy, painful while my nipples had needle sensations. A few days ago my abdomen got so swollen and painful that it abruptly stopped my period during its heaviest flow. I was without period for two days and now I am getting the old dark blood.

The pain in the chest or around the heart is terrifying. Sometimes it feels hot and sometimes like something cold expands deep inside me.

I have tachycardia or bradycardia and heart palpitations depending on IBS's mood.

I am exhausted. Even walking from one corner of the room to the other makes me tired most days. The quality and duration of my sleep have no effect on my fatigue.

Pain killers don't help. Antispasmodics bearly do. Freaking narcotics don't either.

I have been trying the IBS low FODMAP diet for three weeks now... I see more worsening than improvement.

And now the crazy stuff: I have been to a GP, two gastroenterologists, a cardiologist, a microbiologist and hospitalised. After they examine me, they all ask the same thing: "Why are you so stressed?". I hate this so much I want to pull my hair off when I hear it.

I am taking my temperature and oxygen levels every day. I have had two ECGs, a heart CT, rib & lung CT, upper abdomen CT and two detailed blood tests. All looks fine except for the large intestine which looks like crap *get it?*. Both gastroenterologists avoid giving me endoscopies because they are convinced it's just IBS but I can't shake off my fears. Could you, if you were in my place? I am offering them money, and they refuse it because they are THAT sure.

Now the things I can't do:

I can't eat whatever and however I want. I can't sleep, I can't exercise, I can't bend, I can't lift anything, I can't read a book or watch a movie or a show, I can't do chores, I can't draw and paint in the new tablet my friends gifted me. I can't talk to my friends because I am in such a poor state. I can't take good care of myself, I can't play that videogame I literally bought a subscription for. I struggle to dress myself and I need help to put my shoes on. I can't post the things I wanted to here (gifs for rhink and theory for Jaime Lannister and ASOIAF). I can't find much relief in Rhett and Link content anymore (who incidentally drove me through another hard time in the past). I can't keep track of my queues and my blogs anymore. I have no idea what is posted and when. And I can't answer to some messages and tag games that some good people have sent me.

This is how I am doing these days. My thoughts go to those who live with chronic pain and diseases and I shiver at the thought that this might be long term for me too. I don't know what to do. I have what I used to call a fierce survival instinct but my mind lately has become a grim place.

[theshippingpro]

I dont suffer from food allergies, technical but my grass allergy got so bad that it started to read corn and wheat as grass. I couldn't eat any wheat and corn for close to a year. Thankfully I was young enough that my insurance would cover allergy shots for me. So I have gotten better and still taking allergy shots. But I do have to take a break from eating them for a time period.

My wheat "allergy" wasnt too bad. Just intense stomach pain and diarrhea problems. We thought I had celiac disease for a little bit before I went to the doctor's. Since literally half of my moms family has it.

My corn "allergy" got so bad before the shots. That I had a hard time breathing. It wasnt anaphylactic shock but was a bitch to deal with. I also have EOE ( I didnt know at the time.)Which is from what I can remember from what my doctor told me, a throat allergy. Which tends to flare up when I have a allergic reaction and asthma attacks. It cause my throat to be inflamed like someone is trying to set it on fire and have crazy bad chest pain. And I have mild chronic stomach pains(also didnt at the time till later.) And they get worse when I eat certain foods. Especially ones I'm "allergic" to. So I avoided corn at all cost.

Luckily during this time I didnt have any bad experiences with food places like the other stories above. Because I just didnt want to risk it, I had found this post a few years before my body decided to go crazy on me. And remember it while going through all this. So if I did go out to eat, I just chose the gluten free meals and just avoided the one that had corn, instead of asking for no corn with it. Because I didnt want to get some waiter/waitress like the stories above.

I'm freaking mad that I had to be so afraid of ordering my food with out certain things because of people like this. I'm lucky that I can do allergy shots, and get rid of them for 20 years. I'm grateful for that every day. But there are other people that can't, because their allergys are that bad. So people if you ever go into the food service business, please remember this post. Especially during this time of 2020, we dont need to make our lifes hard. Stay Safe -TSP

DO NOT DO THIS.

This makes me so angry.

If you work in a movie theater and you do this I have no respect for you.

My younger brother is Type 1 Diabetic.

When we go to a movie theater, we always get him diet soda. If he were to get regular when we asked for diet, we would not give him the insulin he would need for it. If that happens, his blood sugar level could go so high he could go into a coma, go blind, or even die.

If somebody gave him regular soda instead of diet without telling us, that person could be responsible for a nine-year-old being killed or blinded.

Just thinking about that makes me so angry. I get scared every time we take him to a movie in case the people working there saw this picture and decide to do the same thing.

Please signal boost this so people know.

[daythomas1994]

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[moonyefp]

I know, it's long, but stick with me AHAHAHAH DISCLAIMER: English is NOT my first language, I'm Italian, so I apologize for any grammar mistake I made! - I disappeared for a few days 'cause I was in hospital, recovering from laparoscopyc surgery! A couple of years ago I FINALLY got diagnosed with Endometriosis, a chronic disease that causes the body to produce endometrial tissue OUTSIDE the uterus (for the people who don't know, that's where endometrial tissue is supposed to be). This causes formation of cysts, adesions between organs and painful flares, that are impossible to handle with regular painkillers; It also has a Wide plethora of other symptoms, like muscle pain and chronic fatigue. It's not a "deadly" desease per se, but it definitely damages your internal organs and in most cases causes great pain almost daily. To me, it started with umbereable periods and ovulations, but in a few years to this added a sharp ache in my abdomen that never left me, not really. I had problems digesting food, I had problems during sexual intercourse and even when using the bathroom. After another long night in ER, the doctor on shift had a brilliant idea: OB/GEN visit! Now, not every gynecologist knows how to recognize endometriosis so, even if you get regularly checked by yours, there's no guarantee that they would know what to look for. I got lucky. The hospital I was in was specialized in Endometriosis and POS and the doctors FINALLY gave me my diagnosis. - I'm now followed by a great doctor that is also the one that performed surgery on me last week. I had a few cysts, adesions and some outbreaks that he and the great equipe took care of and I am now recovering, slowly but steadily. You are probably wondering why I'm telling you all this. The answer is: awareness. Before my pain became almost invalidating, I didn't even consider that my bad period could be such a red flag and, when the pain spread, I first thought about allergies or appendicites! I simply didn't know. Since it's chronic, I will have to manage this for the rest of my life. Hormons medicines help most of the time and together with my Doctor we will find the perfect therapy to keep my organs clean and my life as painless as possible. I can't get my period, 'cause producing endometrial tissue is dangerous and damaging to me, but I'm happy. I don't feel any less of a woman for that. Not every woman gets period, after all! Hell, not every woman has a uterus! So yeah, I'm okay with this decision. There are people out there who are suffering without a reason. They don't know why they are in pain (way worse than mine, in most cases) and, sadly, not every Doctor knows how to help them. I'm just a nobody, but we all have tools and voices. I have this tool and I decided to use my tiny voice: If there is ANY chance that this information I'm sharing could, in some way, reach the ears of someone pained by this, it's enough reason for me to do it. If you have ANY SUSPECT that my situation (or similar ones) could apply to you, please, reach out to and Endo Specialist! Look on the internet, ask online and get checked for endometriosis (and adenomyosis)! It's not a deadly desease, but it can seriously damage your internal organs (that could lead to potentially dangerous problems). Having Endometriosis also means that you have a 40% chance of being infertile to begin with and, if not treated and let damage your organs, it's a disease that can MAKE you infertile. Again, to me is not too important, but there are people out there who REALLY want to be able to bear a child and knowing this information could potentially save their fertility. And last: being in pain ALL THE TIME takes a toll on your mental health, which is not gonna help making things easier for anyone. I'm coming back to seeing my therapist in less the two weeks, 'cause the last months have been VERY hard and I need the support. - You're not "crazy" and no, you're not overreacting. Your pain is valid and real. If you want you can message me with questions, I'd be glad to answer as best as I can, both here or on Instagram (@moonyefp)

[kirinhealthprogressjournal]

I think I might have fibromyalsia.

sugar seems to make it worse.  drinking apple cider vinegar lemonade seems to help.

I’m just in pain all the time.  To a point that I’m kind of just used to it unless it gets really really bad for whatever reason.  Even just lying still in bed for an hour, I start to get stiff all over.

I mentioned to my husband I never had those dreams where you have to pee really bad and you dream you’re in the bathroom and sitting on the toilet and then you wet the bed.

That didn’t happen to me because I know when I’m dreaming.  When I’m dreaming, I’m not in pain and it’s so much easier to move and do things.

When I was younger I used to want to rock back and forth idly, a lot, especially as a teenager, because it would dull the pain.  But I quickly learned that disturbs people and I trained myself not to do it, even though it helps, and I’m not doing it because I’m nuts.

When I had kids, I got away with it a little more.  When I was doing it at work, I just explained “Oh I have small children” so like, of course I would be in the habit of rocking them to sleep all the time. And people accepted that readily.

I just got done working out a bit ago, and it’s 2am, and I’m sitting here all by myself watching GMM on youtube, and I decided to just literally grab hold of the sides of the computer desk and very purposefully rock my body back and forth, using my arms, and it feels good.

Sometimes I forget the dull ache is there all the time, until I take pain meds for my period, or my husband strokes my back, and then the pain goes away and it feels so good.

My ex boyfriend said he missed that after we broke up.  Because when we were just standing around together, I used to hold onto his hands, and sort of rock myself back and forth while he just kind of stood there and supported me like this computer desk.  But he didn’t think it was crazy, I think he called it a sort of dance.  I don’t think he knew I did it because it lessened the pain I live with chronically.

I’ve done research on fibromyalsia.  It sounds like basically nobody knows what it is.  It’s just increased activity in the pain receptors of your brain.  I spoke to a friend who was diagnosed, and she ended up moving to Florida or California or something, to help manage it.  I don’t know if that helps or what.

It seems like diagnosis is difficult or impossible as well.  It’s almost a blanket statement for ‘you say you’re experiencing chronic widespread pain, and we don’t know why.’ It’s like the adult version of colic.

And as far as I know there isn’t a cure either.

But I’m gonna keep working out because I think it helps.  I’m gonna maybe avoid sugar, even though I crave chocolate often, it might just be a magnesium deficiency. I need to remember to drink the apple cider vinegar lemon stuff every day because I know that helps.  It was amazing to wake up in the morning and not be in so much pain I wanted to cry just dragging myself out of bed.

What really sucks about it is, people hear about this, and they think you’re just weak willed, or lazy, or even lying for attention.  People literally think this is a ‘made up’ illness.  A friend of ours even joked about it in front of my face, even though he didn’t know I probably have it.

I have so much wrong with me, it kinda does sound like I’m making it up, or that I must have hypochondria or something. But I am medically diagnosed anemic, and hypothyroid, and psoriasis.  And the thyroid pretty much affects every other organ in your body.  So the heart, the intestines, lungs, (I had a bizarre outbreak all over my torso of little red spots about three years ago and the doctor told me my immune system was basically attacking my lungs, and that nobody knows what causes it, but that it would go away.)

Add defunct immune system to the list. But when your intestines aren’t working, you basically just don’t have any energy, and your body isn’t getting the nutrients it needs, so that explains the anemia. Having a defunct immune system means I could very well have a form of glandular fever that one you contract it, it goes mostly dormant most of the time, until your body is weakened by something, and then it flares up again.

And even if I don’t have a cold or a stomach ache, or any reason to have an infection, if I overexert myself one day, it’s pretty common for me to wake up the next day with a legitimate fever and cloudy urine.  That’s been happening since I was a teenager.  And I knew something was weird with it even then, because the incubation period for stuff like that is three days.  I can’t go to someone’s house, spend the night, and wake up having a fever from an illness from someone else in the house.

People make fun of me, people push me to do things I don’t have the physical or emotional strength to do, people don’t believe me, or they think I’m being a big stupid baby and I need to suck it up and just /do/ these things and not sleep for 12 hours in a 24hr period, and get a job where I go every day and can’t call in sick because I have another fever or I’m just too damned bone-crushingly tired for no reason at all. Again.

I feel useless and I hate it.  I was feeling well enough earlier to do a load of dishes, and pick up some trash, and I did that.  The house really could be in a worse state than it is, but I just feel crushed when I not only don’t have the strength to keep up with it, but when I expend energy I don’t have in order to clean it, nobody cares and it’s fucked up again in a day or two anyway.  Meanwhile I haven’t felt well enough to do anything about it.

I’ve been doing so much research, I’ve been working so hard.  I’ve been eating foods that are supposed to help me, and I’ve been drinking herbal teas, and taking supplements, and using essential oils.

I tried Lexapro again and that just fucked me up so much worse I’m still trying to get back in shape because it made me feel like I was living my life in a vat full of molasses and it was miserable.

Caffeine seems to help, so I drink that.  It’s diet coke, and I worry about the chemicals in it, but I definitely don’t need the sugar.  And I don’t really like the taste either, so I’m only drinking it when I need to.

I really don’t want to be dependent on pain killers, but it often feels like the only time I feel good and normal and happy, and productive, is when I’ve taken two Excedrin migraine extra strength to manage my period cramps, which used to be so bad they’d cause me to go pale and clammy and puke and pass out from the pain.

Ever since I had kids, they’re a lot better, but I still take the excedrin.

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It’s so hard, just trying to be social, and people want you to make commitments to something, and you can’t.  Because you don’t know when that morning comes, how you’ll be feeling.  I often wake up and in addition to a fever, my face and my hands and my feet and my abdomen will be swollen.  This had happened my whole life.  

I’m actually kind of angry that now when I look back at pictures of myself when I was about 15, it’s quite obvious there’s something medically wrong with me, and yet nobody noticed or did anything to help me.  They just expected me to be normal and made me ashamed of myself if I required anything from anybody.

When I was pregnant for the first time, my appointments were in the morning, and my doctor so often said  “You’re really swollen.  Let me see your face, let me see your ankles.“ But I hardly knew how to respond.  They tested me for gestational diabetes and I didn’t have it.  The swelling was normal for me.  and I was confused by her at the time, but now I can see it.  I can feel it when I wake up, I can see my eyes are swollen, I can see my nose is puffy.  I can see my wedding ring is well stuck on my finger when it usually slides off so easily. Working out makes it go away and makes my nose run, but idk if thats related to fluid balance.

I guess I’m hoping that keeping track of all this will be able to shed some light on my physical health and I’ll be able to make more progress.

I forgot I need to buy almond milk for my low blood pressure. I could also buy more enzyme capsules to help my digestion.  I know they helped before and I’m almost out.