Hello all. Wondering if any of you have had a full hysterectomy.
I have severe PMDD it has kept me from working for over 5 years becusee I spend most days in bed in incredible pain and my mental health is rocky at best.
I have tried herbal medicine. Massage, castor oil, vaginal steaming, allopathic medicine, acupuncturist, massage, reflexology, you name it, with 16 yrs of every form of birth control known to man under my belt, chemically infused menopause, and the longer I go the worse it feels its getting. Having my parents visit for a month certainly did not help and they make my stress and anxiety levels spike like crazy.
Will a full hysterectomy stop the hormones? Will it stop the constant pain?
What happens when you're in your mid 30s and you get it taken out? Will it not solve the problem.? Stop the hormonal cycle? But I don't want to take synthetic hormones bc they have make be suicidal while on chemically induced menopause.
I have been to more then 12 gynecologists in over 6 countries and have found very little help.. I have been to Chinese medicine drs, ayurvedic and western herbal practitioners. No one seems to understand the gravity of the pain I am in.
I have been putting off this option for a long time but I want my life back.
Any and all advice welcomed. 🙏
So some context about my symptoms.
I have extremely severe pain on Day 1 and 2 of my period only. Very rarely have it at other times in my cycle. Onset was at around age 24 but started my periods much earlier at 10 years old. I've had symptoms for 7 years. Been trying to conceive for about 14 months and not pregnant yet. My pain responds well to naproxen.
So, I went to see a specialist with 35 years experience and he said that he thinks that I don't have endo or adenomyosis because of onset of symptoms and the symptoms only being present on day one and two. Also that it responds to Naproxen which blocks/reduces prostaglandins.
He said the possible cause is an imbalance of prostaglandins which causes the severe pain. He said to maybe make dietary changes see what works and keep taking the medication.
I feel relieved that it's not something more serious like endo etc but also I just wanted to ask about peoples experiences on here just for peace of mind that I'm not being fobbed off.
Does anyone have similar symptoms to me? What was your diagnosis? Any advice/tips how to deal with the pain?
Thanks in advance!
So I basically made a sub last month while on my period with affirmations to be painfree during my period, free of cramps etc. and I'm seeing results now. I personally only have cramps on the very first day of my cycle, but VERY intense and painful ones, so last month, on my second or third day I decided to make a sub for next month (so this one) and all the coming ones because I literally couldn't bear it anymore. I've been listening to it for like 2/3 weeks now (my cycle is only that long, instead of 4 weeks) and today I'm on my first day and I literally have NO PAIN, NO CRAMPS, NOTHING. I honestly kinda forgot about the sub because I always listen to it overnight with many other ones, but I obviously remembered it since I didn't have any cramps the second the blood started to flow like I usually do. Plus I literally used the simplest affirmations ever: I am free of period cramps. I am free of pain during my period. I am free of menstrual cramps.
I have honestly never used a sub that worked this well for me
Hey, I'm just wondering if anyone else is under T21/medicinal cannabis for period pain?
I was prescribed Noidecs T25C25 oil and while it felt great (mainly in my mind and relaxation), the pain was still quite prevalent
I will keep using it and wait for my next appt, but would be good to hear if anyone else has had any success in this department and if so what you have tried?
Cheers!
Hi everyone!
First of all, thank you for the quick help and good advice you gave me yesterday. I went to the hospital, got some IV fluids, painkillers and something so I wouldn't faint (which happened when I was at the hospital).
I don't have anything wrong with me. This is, unfortunately, just what my periods are like, and this one is worse than the others because it's a week late. There is no quick fix here, and honestly, I feel like this can't go on.
My periods are very heavy when they're "normal", I vomit, I faint, I have extreme cramps. What I had yesterday was a completely different level, and honestly I don't want to deal with that again. Like, ever.
The problem is, the most common method to treat heavy and painful periods is via hormonal birth control.
I have chronic migraines with aura, and oestrogen pills made that a lot worse. And I also have depression and spent the last year actively suicidal. I had the birth control shot with levonorgestrel, and I had to be institutionalized shortly after. I had several low dose combined pills, and all of them made my migraines and depression worse. So I spent the last 5 years or so without any kind of hormonal birth control (the birth control part is redundant for me, due to gayness reasons, so no worries there).
I have an appointment with my real life ob/gyn Wednesday morning, and she's a strong personality. Since I am not in a good headspace right now, I want to prepare for our talk as well as I can. I know she'll want to try some kind of gestagen, which I would only be ready to try if there really is nothing else I can do. Honestly, I'm scared of what that stuff did to me the last time.
Are there any methods that I don't know of yet to treat hyper- and dysmenorrhoea? Because on top of my chronic migraines, I CAN'T be out of commission for three additional days a month, and those are just the ones where I need to change my cup every 1.5 hours.
Any advice and info is more than welcome.
Again, thank you all so much for helping me yesterday!
I would just like to know if anyone here also experiences very painful cramps, cold sweat, vomiting, diarrhea during their periods?
A bit of context: It's been 6 years since my menarche. I haven't been diagnosed by an OB/GYN. I have regular monthly periods, but I haven't really heard of peers who suffer as much discomfort as I do. I've had a few run-ins with these horrible side effects of my period at school, and sometimes I could barely walk myself to the infirmary.
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
I was diagnosed with PCOS when I was 23, I'm now 27. I've always struggled with dysmenorrhoea and irregular periods - the longest period I had prior to 2020 lasted 10 weeks, back when I was 15. Most of the time though, it'd be about 2 weeks long. Sometimes I would go 6 months without a period. I can't take the combi pill due to family medical history, and while the mini pill helped, the side effects were horrible.
Since March 2020, a couple of weeks before the UK went into lockdown, I've basically been on my period constantly. I'll bleed for at least a month before I get a couple of dry days (longest time period-free has been about 10 days), then it starts again. The consistency of the blood is different to that of menses gone by; where before my flow would be extremely heavy, bright red, and liquid (with a few big clots thrown in), it's now much lighter, is a dark red-brown, and almost a paste consistency. It's really gross - I've barely had sex with my partner in the last 2 years because it makes me feel disgusting (and historically I have not been opposed to period sex). The only 'upside' is that I now very rarely experience the debilitating cramps I had before, although I still sometimes need to take painkillers.
I've had blood tests, std tests, and an internal ultrasound, but the doctors couldn't find anything suspicious. I was referred to the gynaecologist, who didn't perform an examination, told me that there's no specific reason for the constant bleeding other than 'you have PCOS', and gave me a prescription for beta blockers to 'help with my anxiety'. Needless to say I filed a complaint about him!
I begged my endocrinologist (who I'd been seeing every 6 months since I was diagnosed, but the appointments consisted of me being weighed and told to take vitamin D) to put me on metformin, but the side effects were worse than the period - horrible GI cramps, and I don't think I took a solid shit the whole time I was on it. I told them I didn't want to take it anymore and at that point they kind of washed their hands of me and said from an endocrinology POV they can't do anything else.
So I went to my GP who told me to try the Mirena coil. When I had my appt to get it fitted at the sexual health clinic, the nurse asked my the reason I wanted the coil. I told her basically everything I've said here, and she was appalled. She refused to fit the coil due to me having undiagnosed menstrual bleeding.
When I went back to the GP I was told that the ble
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I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
When I got home, they were still there.
I won't be doing that today!
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This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
You take away their little brooms
Where ever you left it 🤷♀️🤭
There hasn't been a post all year!
It was about a weak back.
