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[shinga]

Two months of nothing, two weeks of intermittent spotting, and now I'm having a full-blown death period of absolute pain and horror.

In between careful breathing I keep reminding myself that I was asking for this. Granted I wanted it timed correctly so it wouldn't have spent all this time saving up for a bloodbath but still.

On the bright side, it's still not as bad as I went through in high school. The "winding up in the ER for the Worst Day Ever" level of cramps.

*breathe* Uterus is made of fail. Hormone imbalances can also suck it.

OH and on the thyroid thing, VA is all "lol your levels are totally normal! Keep taking the meds!" fucking hell when I remember I'm calling them up, or stopping by (they're not far from here) and demanding a print out of the results so I can get a second opinion.

Blah blah health stuff no one cares about blah blah :P

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[bigangry]

I know it may not be possible at this juncture, but have you gotten a second, non-VA opinion on the thyroid disorder?

[shinga]

Not yet, can't afford it. However, Will's sister is a doctor and has asked about the results/testing before so it'd be her I show it to.

[bigangry]

I know that VA doctors are typically not historically the best for Women, which is why I asked. I've a friend whose daughter was told by VA doctors that endomitriosis (I think is what it was...) was going to prevent her from ever having children, and when she got divorced from her military husband (for unrelated reasons) and got back on her Dad's insurance, she saw a specialist and they took a look, gave her one medication, and she's pretty much fine and ovulating normally now.

I know anecdote isn't the plural of data, but it's worth giving Will's sister a look, just on the off-chance that it's something that the VA's missing.

[thedeadcat]

Endometriosis is one of those things that can be treated by birth control, which can enable you to get pregnant.

Guess which part my doctors DID NOT tell me?

Birth control is how I conceived my first kid, and IUD hormone remnants kept my uterus more or less okay until I had my second child, whereupon the endo took over and tried to eat my uterus to the point where the organ in question was in the process of inverting itself to try and escape when they finally took it out.

Uh, what was my point - OH. Right. Anyway: You can have severe, horrible, crippling endometriosis (raises hand) and have perfectly normal thyroid levels.

[bigangry]

Oh, I wasn't implying that endometriosis was anything other than a friend's daughter's experience with the VA for something possibly completely unrelated to Shinga's thyroid thing. Sorry for not making that clear. D:

[thedeadcat]

Eh, it's okay. I could have misread yours, too.

Also, endo makes me twitchy because I suffered from it for fifteen years with NO doctor of mine bothering to treat it or help me in any way until the uterus removal 'proved' I had it. Soooooo there's that. *G* I really hope Shinga doesn't have to deal with THAT.