Medical CW
(Sorry for so much personal posting lately, it has been cathartic for me. Please feel free to scroll on by 💜)
Good news: The N.P. was great and all my worrying about not being taken seriously enough/ being brushed off/having to advocate hard for myself was for not. She listened, she sympathized, she understood very keenly where I'm at. We're pursuing multiple options at once and she's very available for any questions.
Not as good news: Endometriosis is now definitely the primary suspect and also can be incredibly hard to diagnose. I have a surgery consult scheduled for 4/16. I'm supposed to go to Japan near the end of May, so I'm a little nervous about how actual surgery (exploratory laparoscopy) is going to have to land timing wise. We're gonna try a progesterone-only BC pill in the meantime. I can't take anything with estrogen (I have migraines with auras) so that does limit the available options. And some folks with endo have multiple surgeries before they find it. If they do find and treat it, it can (and likely will) still reoccur at some point.
And the fertility implications are weighing real heavy on my mind. This is ultimately the result I wanted from the appointment today. I just wish I had a different body. And I've just been making sloppy, little mistakes at work because my mind is just elsewhere and I wanna blanket burrito until life just. Works itself out. 😶
















