MarksFantasyGirl
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ORIGINAL: RainydayNE i'd never go so far as to apply something from my own life to other people with a word like "most." endometriosis is actually more common than people think and is VERY uncomfortable. same for fibroids. i'm at a point now where i'm "appreciating" them, after a whole string of terribly depressing events. they still suck in the way that i get moody/near suicidal, anemic, doubled over with pain sometimes, blah blah blah they're not HORRIBLE things really. the mean 1) you can have kids if you want and 2) you aren't going to have one any time soon. and that's fine with me. but when medical care costs as much as it does, people don't/can't go to the doctor. i'd LOVE to go. i don't like the pulling feelings in there when one's about to start. if i bend one direction just right around that particular time it feels like being ripped in half. =p not lying and i can name 4 other females off the top of my head with similar issues. as for the others who don't openly talk about menstrual distress, i imagine there are scores of them. it is more common than people think, especially in a world where women's medical concerns are still dismissed to a degree. "well everyone has cramps sweetie." i've been told that before yes i know that, don't call me sweetie, and not everyone has them like i do. I completely agree with you... Endometriosis runs in my family... my mom and my aunt both had to have hysterectomies (sp) by the time they were 25 because of it... Being 22, and still wanting more children, I am scared... Especially since I can't afford the Dr. visits, and with all the problems I have in that area... From the time I was 10, till I was about 12, I was in and out of the hospital, and Dr.'s offices, and everything else.. they didn't know what was wrong with me... I couldn't explain what I was going through to anyone other than "OW!! MY STOMACH HURTS! I FEEL LIKE I'M BEING STABBED!" Then, my mom took me to the Gyno... I had the start of the condition, plus large cysts on my overies... I was put on Birth control... For a girl who is only 12 years old, who already had a lot of health problems, didn't get her period yet, and then, she gets put on birth control... I found it just humiliating... that was even over 4 years before I started to have sex... It was just BAD... and the nerse at my school must have been one of those that didn't have symptoms... she never cared... I got the migranes and everything, and nothing helped but to lie down in a dark room, and she only gave me 2 regular strength tylenol, and told me to deal with it.... She even accused me of having a drug problem at one point.... So I stopped going to her, and just calling my mom to sign me out of school... Grrr... I never could stand that woman! lol
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