Wednesday 25 April 2012

Paying Attention to your body

I am 13days or so post surgery. Yesterday I took my first lucrin (popularly called lupron) shot to prevent the endometrioisis from coming back. Apparently this injection puts your body in a menopausal state and so you experience hot flashes etc. So far i am good, no hot flashes, but its just one day passed. Ill keep you updated. Today, I dont feel as fatigue, but i have been having some back pain on my lower left side that is especially excruciating if i stand to quickly. Generally though, it is a good day.

While going through my ordeal, I remembered that different doctors asked me different questions. Many of them wanted to develop a medical history of me. I remembered being unable to remember certain things and could simply say I was not sure. What was interesting though is when they asked about my heavy menses? My response was for years I had at least two heavy days but I thought it was normal. It is important that we pay attention to our bodies. More importantly, it is important we take nothing for granted. Many persons have been recognizing  changes with their body, but PRETEND they are not there and go on living with a condition that what be corrected easier if its deal with early and the reason why? Scared!!!  It is OK to be scared but it doesn't make the issue go away.

In today's world, majority of ladies like myself focused on their education and career. It means that having children early was not an option, but that doesn't mean you do not want and when you are mentally and financially ready, you really don't want to have complications. In addition, you don't want to be forced into having children. So what do we have to do? PAY ATTENTION TO OUR BODIES. Things to look out for:

  • Extremely heavy and painful menses so much so that you are on prescription medications or you find yourself increasing the strength of the medication
  • Clots in your menses
  • Mid cycle pain- this happens around your ovulation. It feels as if you having cramps. It can be normal but the intensity might means something
  • Higher than normal tummy 
  • Pelvic pain or pressure
  • Pain radiating down any leg
  • Period lasting longer than normal. Some persons period go passed 5 days up to all 13 days
  • Irregular periods. You have your period this month and then its gone, you don't know when again. This might be a wonderful experience, all of us needs a break sometime, but that can never be normal.
This list is not exhausted and does not in anyway replaces what the doctors would say. If however you are paying attention to your body when you visit the doctor, there are many things you can tell them you are noticing. 

3 comments:

  1. I have experienced all the symptoms that you have listed. My period is normally painful from start to the second to last day. Heavy with lots and lots of clots. Most times i feel the clots when they are "coming down'. I even get back aches and my legs are weakened.I normally take an injection to ease the pain but it seems as if my body has gotten accustomed to it so it no longer works.My shortest period ever was 8 days, sometimes it goes up to 2 weeks and this is no joke or lie. My friends who know have cried for me cause i am normally in excruciating pain. OOH and weird enough in between my legs turn red. My period has no sympathy for me, it is heavy on the first day right down to the 2nd to last day. Most people can put a time frame on their periods, mine isn't so cause its irregular like wow, sometimes 8 days, sometimes two weeks or sometimes it doesn't come

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    1. Have you been to any doctor about it? What have they said? These things should not be taken for granted as they can come back to haunt you when you are ready for a family. Start journalling what you have been experiencing in details eg. some of the things they asked is the size of the clot and how they look. Please visit a gynae, see if they can send you for an ultrasound. Heavy bleeding may lead to anaemia so it is important that you really get it check out.

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