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Today is one of those endometriosis days. Where I can't breathe without my stomach hurting. Where I've taken fucking morphine, cannabis, along with my normal concoction of medication, and have my TENS machine on as high as it goes and my pain is still at an 8/10, where I can't walk more than 10 steps without my legs giving out, where I've thrown up three times and had to choose between showering and using the toilet. Where I've got a fever and all of my limbs are jelly and shaking. Where urinating feels like forcing a burning stick into my skin. Where maybe three foods stay down and where I'm surviving on a heat pack and Disney cartoons.
I'm not even on my period yet. It's only getting worse from here.
It's not "just a period"
When I had my foot fractured in three places I placed that as a 3-4/10 on my exponential pain scale, my daily pain is a 5, and my periods easily hit 10.
Disabled young people exist.
Stop saying they don't.
we meet another specialist tomorrow
...he's the last option in our region before we've run out of clinicians who will help.
I have one appointment with him, and he made it very clear he doesn't want to see me afterwards because I already have input from a pain specialist...that pain specialist has been close to pointless.
Wish us luck!
Normalising certain things can be dangerous - especially around mental illness and physical illness. A good example of this is how period pain has been normalised.
People with periods often dismiss their pain on the basis of "everyone gets a little pain", doctors dismiss painful periods, specialists dismiss them too as it's so normalised to have painful periods where it can be a symptom of severe chronic illness; endometriosis, polycystic ovaries, adenomyosis, even kinds of gynecological cancers can present as "a painful period"
Destigmatising painful periods (and honestly, pelvic health for all people) helps to push societal acceptance and awareness of the fact that those issues exist, and allows for conversation when problems arise.