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 : )