TMI warning, blood, and all the beautifulness of female periods
this blog post is about a brief overview of how i found out about my suspected endometriosis and the journey so far that i have had with this illness
my journey with this condition started when i was around six or seven years old when i had my first period. yes, i was an early bloomer.
my periods were irregular until i was nine years old. my mum always knew when another period was about to hit because i started getting pain from ovulation though until my period finished and i was very moody so she just knew.
i was in and out of doctors for the pain for years, at ten i was put on birth control to try and stop my ten-fourteen day periods that were very heavy down to seven days which worked but not with the flow. at this point, i was missing a few days of school a month.
by age fourteen i was in and out of the emergency room and different doctors for the pain, i was vomiting, curled up in pain, missing two weeks of school a month, my back pain started up and more symptoms like bleeding though a maternity pad in two hours.
throughout the years i was told painful periods were normal, saying it was all because i was stressed, that it was me pretending (even when i was vomiting in front of them in a ball crying from pain) that i was trying to get attention. i was even asked if there were problems at home and that is why this was all happening.
i had been on about three birth controls at this point and my grandmother also has endometriosis. it wasn't until i was fourteen and i had just changed doctors and was back in the emergency toom that we started to get answers. one of the female doctors was passing by me explaining to another doctor what was going on when she walked in and basically just said i think you have endometriosis i am going to send a referral letter to your GP to get you into the women health clinic. she also started me on my painkiller mix.
my GP got the referral and i went into the health clinic and the doctor was someone from Christchurch, she was like yeah sure i think the doctor is right but i can't do anything and sent me on my way. my net appointment was with my now specialist who wanted me to get an ultrasound and started me on another birth control.
the ultrasound showed an ovarian endometrioma on my left ovary that was i think off my memory 3cm by 4cm or something along those lines.
now at sixteen, i have been on all but one birth control available in New Zealand which means i have gone through all the funded and 99.9% of the nonfunded which makes me worse. we are waiting on my surgery date, i go into my specialist every three months and i am in pain every day, i had to drop out of high school because of how many school days i was missing because of how much worse i have gotten, i was even homeschooled a bit and while i was getting the work done i wasn't learning anything because the pain clouds my brain and makes it hard for me to remember what is going on and what i just learned.
this blog post is about a brief overview of how i found out about my suspected endometriosis and the journey so far that i have had with this illness
my journey with this condition started when i was around six or seven years old when i had my first period. yes, i was an early bloomer.
my periods were irregular until i was nine years old. my mum always knew when another period was about to hit because i started getting pain from ovulation though until my period finished and i was very moody so she just knew.
i was in and out of doctors for the pain for years, at ten i was put on birth control to try and stop my ten-fourteen day periods that were very heavy down to seven days which worked but not with the flow. at this point, i was missing a few days of school a month.
by age fourteen i was in and out of the emergency room and different doctors for the pain, i was vomiting, curled up in pain, missing two weeks of school a month, my back pain started up and more symptoms like bleeding though a maternity pad in two hours.
throughout the years i was told painful periods were normal, saying it was all because i was stressed, that it was me pretending (even when i was vomiting in front of them in a ball crying from pain) that i was trying to get attention. i was even asked if there were problems at home and that is why this was all happening.
i had been on about three birth controls at this point and my grandmother also has endometriosis. it wasn't until i was fourteen and i had just changed doctors and was back in the emergency toom that we started to get answers. one of the female doctors was passing by me explaining to another doctor what was going on when she walked in and basically just said i think you have endometriosis i am going to send a referral letter to your GP to get you into the women health clinic. she also started me on my painkiller mix.
my GP got the referral and i went into the health clinic and the doctor was someone from Christchurch, she was like yeah sure i think the doctor is right but i can't do anything and sent me on my way. my net appointment was with my now specialist who wanted me to get an ultrasound and started me on another birth control.
the ultrasound showed an ovarian endometrioma on my left ovary that was i think off my memory 3cm by 4cm or something along those lines.
now at sixteen, i have been on all but one birth control available in New Zealand which means i have gone through all the funded and 99.9% of the nonfunded which makes me worse. we are waiting on my surgery date, i go into my specialist every three months and i am in pain every day, i had to drop out of high school because of how many school days i was missing because of how much worse i have gotten, i was even homeschooled a bit and while i was getting the work done i wasn't learning anything because the pain clouds my brain and makes it hard for me to remember what is going on and what i just learned.
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