12/19/2023 0 Comments Endo flare up during ovulationLong story short I was dismissed by my thyroid specialist when I complained of a lump in my throat, he even rolled his eyes at me in the visit and told me "let's wait till your 4 month review for a scan, you must have a cold!". #endoMEtriosis #fightingtogether #sendinglove #peopleneedto #stopthinkingwere #exaggeratingĪlways trust your gut instincts. Btw if you counted that makes at least 8 other ladies in my family (instant family I didn’t count 2nd cousins great aunts and such but I have a lot of them that have it. Me and my sister have this disease as well. My aunt Ashley (had 3 miscarraiges) and aunt Mindy, also my mother (had a hysterectomy removing both ovaries ít was so bad, the doctor said it was the worst he had ever seen–at 23) and grandmother (1 ovary removed at 19), and my 2 cousins (who are sisters– had hysterectomies) Erica and Melissa, and great grandmother who had a hysterectomy when she was 17 and she had one ovary removed. Btw, I am not just an observer of this disease. This test is the only way to tell whether or not you have endometriosis. It is illegal for the doctor to deny you of this test, as it is a disease that is not visible outside of the body. “It is better to be safe than to be sorry.” You should DEFINITELY get a laposcopy. I would just like to tell you of the old saying. That can be even more painful than the disease itself. I had no idea about this disease until I was diagnosed with it, and had been living with all my friends and family thinking I was a liar for years. If there’s anything we can do, maybe work seminars or even bringing it up in schools, it would be amazing. That’s only because they don’t understand how hard it is to stay awake and sitting upright, when all you want to do is curl up under warm blankets and sleep until I can’t feel it anymore. Ibuprofen generally does NOT help, but they say things like, “Well if you’re just going to sit at home doing nothing, why don’t you just sit at work, making money?” My job thinks I call in because I don’t want to be at work, and because physically I look fine, they think I’m lying if I ask to go home when it becomes too much. For me, personally, it has caused irregular periods (sometimes I have them every two weeks), nausea, vomiting, dizziness, exhaustion, and weight loss from the inability to eat properly when these symptoms effect me. This issue has caused my to lose jobs in the past, because I didn’t know what was wrong with me, and would call in when it flared up. Even now, I’m sitting at my desk and work, and working through the pain because I have to. Many women deal with it, without even knowing what is happening to them. It’s terrible that this isn’t a better known and talked about issue. I have been dealing with debilitating pain since I was 15, and had to leave school on the first day because I was in so much pain, I couldn’t see straight. I was only properly diagnosed with endometriosis this year, at the age of 23. I just wanted to say that reading over this brought tears to my eyes.
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