menstrual cramps should be treatable at home, with household items like heating pads and over-the-counter medicine. you should be able to go to school, go to work, hang out with friends, participate in your hobbies. you shouldn’t be diverting any energy or brainpower into hiding your pain. you shouldn’t be thinking things like “please god help me please god make it stop please i just want it to stop.” you shouldn’t be crying, panting, gasping, or screwing up your face in pain. you shouldn’t be so distracted by your pain that you struggle to focus on what you’re doing. you shouldn’t be waiting for an opportunity to collapse in agony and spend an hour or two writhing and moaning. you shouldn’t be incapacitated by pain.
When the post hysterectomy surgery pains are 100x more bearable than the menstrual pains I had previously, I know I made the right choice for my body. I knew my pain wasn't normal and would cause more damage to my body in the long run. Having the right doctor makes all the difference. After a year of unbearable, debilitating, life altering pain, I can handle being sore for a few weeks. I'm so excited to be able to live my life without being afraid of my monthly cycle!
While Hegseth prays for his enemies to receive “Overwhelming violence of action”, Jesus prayed for his enemies forgiveness; “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing”
These are not the same religion, the “Christianity” that the U.S. government has created to justify their wars and oppression is not the Christianity that saves souls and brings peace to the world.
“All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort. He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us.”
I'm dedicating my prayers this afternoon to all those whose hearts are poisoned by hatred.
Mighty and most merciful God, look upon your lost sheep with pity. Soften their hearts, strengthen their minds, and remove the veil of prejudice from their eyes so they might see all of humankind as Your beloved children. Spare the oppressed from the pain of their words and the violence of their hands, and forgive them their sins so they might finally know community and peace in You. Amen
the state of Tennessee is now requiring all "women" have at least 1 child. a woman's sterilization surgery was canceled because she hadn't had 1 child yet. are transmascs allowed to talk about reproductive oppression now? are we allowed to talk about literally any of our problems yet?
Seconding this. Used that list and cross-referenced it with my insurance, found a doctor who did an amazing job taking out the whole kit and kaboodle with minimal pain and minimal scarring.
I've had a (partial, technically) hysterectomy since 2022. it was the best decision I've ever made and I will stand 10 toes down on that. nothing has had a more meaningful impact on my quality of life than that singular surgery. getting that thing out of my body single-handedly added years to my lifespan via sheer stress reduction alone.
if anyone is considering surgical sterilization, and has any medical questions about the various options available, please ask me anything and everything.
I did so much research prior to getting it done (...I wanted to make an informed decision), but a lot of people aren't even aware that different options exist. or they're only aware of some of the aspects, but not others.
for instance, did you know that you can negotiate where you want your incisions to be?
I specifically didn't want a scar along the "bikini line" because it reminded me too much of a c-section scar and that would be dysphoric for me, so my surgeon and I had a conversation and we decided to just extend the belly button incision a bit instead (because they still have to pull your uterus out of the body somehow and I was keeping my cervix, so we couldn't go out through the vagina like you'd usually do).
there's a massive amount of anti-hysterectomy disinformation on the internet, spread by various anti-abortion pro-forced-birther groups specifically to scare people out of getting sterilized in any way (they're typically the same groups spreading a lot of the anti-IUD disinformation as well). if you ever see something talking about how your spine will slowly collapse into your body or whatever..... that's where that comes from lol. same about anyone fearmongering about pelvic organ prolapse.*
*your biggest risk factor for pelvic organ prolapse (which, by the way, is not the worst thing that can happen to somebody. yeah you don't want it to happen, but things like old age and lifting heavy weights can cause it. we've got techniques for attaching your organs back into your body. you'll be fine. it really isn't the end of the world, I promise you) is giving birth. most people who get hystos are pericis women who have already had children. most studies that have looked at this have stated this skew in the data, since it's hard to tell what confounding variables are impacting the results. as far as we can currently tell, if you have not had any kids, you probably aren't putting yourself at a massively greater risk of prolapse, if any at all.**
**there are some theories that the reason we see higher rates of prolapse post-hysto in parous individuals could be due to structural changes in those pelvic muscles and tissues after birth, making them less resilient to further changes (like removing an organ), whereas somebody who is nulliparous with full structural support intact may be able to handle a hysto without much of an issue. like a jenga tower. imagine the tower has already had a bunch of blocks taken out of the bottom of it, and now you're taking another block out. it's more likely to fall, compared to if you were taking a block out of a tower that was fully intact with no blocks removed yet.
(also I'm not trying to body shame with any of the above notes about structural integrity. it's just a medical fact that giving birth does damage to your body, especially your pelvic floor. human beings (and any other creature tbh) were evolutionarily pressured for offspring and parents to survive childbirth. whether or not we had permanent non-lethal health problems was just not part of the darwinian equation, there. you can survive with a fucked up pelvic floor. as long as it doesn't kill you and your offspring can survive to reproduce (& especially if you survive to have even more kids), that's 99% of what evolution really selects for. the human spine is a structural mess that's prone to issues. those issues make you miserable, but rarely kill you or prevent you from reproducing. so it just... doesn't get selected out of the population. there's a lot of shaming around the bodies of people who give birth and I just want you to know that being disabled is not a moral flaw. having a body that has been ravaged by a baby is not a moral flaw. having a pelvic floor that has been torn to shreds from a 3rd degree tear is not a moral flaw. but it's still a factual reality that having kids f u c k s up your body, health-wise, in many ways. also fuck anyone who turns it into an aesthetics or beauty thing. I'm aware there's that whole aspect of social pressures, and that that's why people get so touchy about admitting that having kids fucked up their body, because they associate "fucking up your body" as being an appearance thing. and like. no. i mean that in a health way. you pushed a baby out of a very small space and tore through your own muscles. that causes permanent damage! that is a type of fucking up of your body! it doesn't have to be visual! aaaaaaa)
the influx of ai art in the religious/spiritual community is pissing me off. im scrolling the mother mary tags on here and on Pinterest and I genuinely can't find any real art. there is no love or honour in ai depictions of our lovely lord or saints!
