I have researched Endo for almost 2 weeks straight and I feel as if I have no more to learn about it. I went to Barnes and Noble today to read up on Endo, I was there for an hour and didn't learn anything new. At this point I think it's fair to say I really just need to speak with our Dr about our options and see what our new gameplan will be. I trust him to do what he thinks will be best for us. We have been praying hard about this, so I know God will take us down the right path.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Ok ready for my Second Post:
I married my High School Sweetheart in June 2005. BEST day of my life! We took a fabulous honeymoon to the Bahamas where we got to swim with the Dolphins, and spend a week at the most beautiful resort I'll probably ever get to see again. We knew we weren't ready to start a family for a while, I was only 23 and still in college. I was thinking by the time I was 25 I would be ready for children, I was wrong lol. When I hit 25 I finally had a great paying career and the only thing on my mind was traveling, decorating my new home, and spending time with my husband. Which is what we did. Shortly after my 27 birthday I wanted to see the Dr to make sure I was in tip top shape to be trying for a child. All of our tests came back with good results. After a few months of "not preventing pregnancy" I knew something else was wrong. I decided the only definite way to know if there was a problem was to do the surgery so we scheduled our surgery for 4-14-10. That is the day that has changed my life forever. My diagnosis was STAGE III endometriosis. Stage IV is the worst. AAAAHHH WHY GOD WHY! I had endo on my bladder, uterus, L tube, and both ovaries, my entire appendix was covered so they removed it. WTH!!! I was in shock....to say the very least. I immediately started looking up endometriosis and reading anything I could on the subject. Endo is a disease without a cure. It will grow back, and it could grow back worse than before. Changing your diet may help but it won't cure it, just suppress it. I had SOOOO much going on in my head, I went though every emotion possible for the week following surgery. I am now 10 days past surgery and feeling physically a lot better, finally. I see my Dr on May 4 and I have a ton of questions for him.
I married my High School Sweetheart in June 2005. BEST day of my life! We took a fabulous honeymoon to the Bahamas where we got to swim with the Dolphins, and spend a week at the most beautiful resort I'll probably ever get to see again. We knew we weren't ready to start a family for a while, I was only 23 and still in college. I was thinking by the time I was 25 I would be ready for children, I was wrong lol. When I hit 25 I finally had a great paying career and the only thing on my mind was traveling, decorating my new home, and spending time with my husband. Which is what we did. Shortly after my 27 birthday I wanted to see the Dr to make sure I was in tip top shape to be trying for a child. All of our tests came back with good results. After a few months of "not preventing pregnancy" I knew something else was wrong. I decided the only definite way to know if there was a problem was to do the surgery so we scheduled our surgery for 4-14-10. That is the day that has changed my life forever. My diagnosis was STAGE III endometriosis. Stage IV is the worst. AAAAHHH WHY GOD WHY! I had endo on my bladder, uterus, L tube, and both ovaries, my entire appendix was covered so they removed it. WTH!!! I was in shock....to say the very least. I immediately started looking up endometriosis and reading anything I could on the subject. Endo is a disease without a cure. It will grow back, and it could grow back worse than before. Changing your diet may help but it won't cure it, just suppress it. I had SOOOO much going on in my head, I went though every emotion possible for the week following surgery. I am now 10 days past surgery and feeling physically a lot better, finally. I see my Dr on May 4 and I have a ton of questions for him.
April 24, 2010 My first post
Well I don't think I know how this whole blog thing works yet, but I'm going to start writing anyways.
I'm going to go waaaaay back to when I was a child so be ready for some history. I LOVED my childhood and was a tomboy to the T, I loved bikes, dirt, gi joe's, guns, forts, and anything that involved helping my dad outside. I never wanted to grow up, I was in Neverland, I wanted to stay a child forever. I didn't want responsibility or bills or boys or anything else that came along with growing up. That day ended when I was 11. I know short-lived right?...Well my Aunt Flow visited me at a very young age. I felt as if I had been robbed of my childhood. I was one of 2 girls in my class to start. AAAHH why me.. So I began my new "adult" life with a bad taste in my mouth. From my very first visit from AF I had cramps that brought me to my knees, literally. The pain was something out of a horror film, no exaggeration...I really felt as if something was trying to make its way out of my stomach. My mom assured me that this was normal, that she too had cramps in her teen years. This is just something that comes with women hood I was told...WHY GOD WHY make me a boy! So for 2 days a month I wouldn't be able to move, I'd have to miss school, lay on my bed with heating pads on my stomach, and Aleve at the bedside. As I got older it got worse, gradually, but definitely worse. I told my Pediatrician about the pain who assured me this was "normal" then as I got older my Dr would just prescribe me a higher dose medication and send me on my way. My Dr also put me on 3 different types of birth control from age 13-17 with no luck, the pain never got better. This post has carried on for long enough...more later : )
I'm going to go waaaaay back to when I was a child so be ready for some history. I LOVED my childhood and was a tomboy to the T, I loved bikes, dirt, gi joe's, guns, forts, and anything that involved helping my dad outside. I never wanted to grow up, I was in Neverland, I wanted to stay a child forever. I didn't want responsibility or bills or boys or anything else that came along with growing up. That day ended when I was 11. I know short-lived right?...Well my Aunt Flow visited me at a very young age. I felt as if I had been robbed of my childhood. I was one of 2 girls in my class to start. AAAHH why me.. So I began my new "adult" life with a bad taste in my mouth. From my very first visit from AF I had cramps that brought me to my knees, literally. The pain was something out of a horror film, no exaggeration...I really felt as if something was trying to make its way out of my stomach. My mom assured me that this was normal, that she too had cramps in her teen years. This is just something that comes with women hood I was told...WHY GOD WHY make me a boy! So for 2 days a month I wouldn't be able to move, I'd have to miss school, lay on my bed with heating pads on my stomach, and Aleve at the bedside. As I got older it got worse, gradually, but definitely worse. I told my Pediatrician about the pain who assured me this was "normal" then as I got older my Dr would just prescribe me a higher dose medication and send me on my way. My Dr also put me on 3 different types of birth control from age 13-17 with no luck, the pain never got better. This post has carried on for long enough...more later : )
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