The ongoing saga of the Not-So-Cuterus....

Its another girl blog....so if you don't want to hear about girl parts and stuff now is the time to leave...

 Ugh.....after a series of terrible periods (try bleeding for 14 days), doctors visits and ultrasounds...I am back fighting it out with the Not-So-Cuterus....which after I saw this cartoon by Stasia Burrington...

I may just have to start calling her the Fuck-Uterus.  

If you want to catch up on the saga of the not-so-cuterus, you can read these posts:

https://taradaisy.blogspot.com/2019/06/be-kind-to-yourself-tmi-warning.html

and

https://taradaisy.blogspot.com/2019/08/silence-invisible-woman.html

I decided to call the doctor about 2 months ago after bleeding for 9 days, I had what I like to call the shining...

Every hour I bled through a super plus tampon and  pair of heavy flow Knix underwear (that's 8 tampons worth folks) and a pair of pants for approximately 26 hours.   Here is where the TMI gets gross people....

for each of those hours I passed a clot the size of a crab apple or larger.....and no, I did not get any sleep even though I was eating drugs like skittles.

Dr. Lim was awesome and ordered an ultrasound and said lets see what happens next time....and the next time came and although I did not experience the shining I did bleed for 17 days straight.

So here I am gorging on lentils, steak, spinach and iron supplements trying to keep on my feet because I feel wrung out and waiting once again to see what an ultrasound will say.

If you have never had a pelvic ultrasound its a torture device set up for woman....the first time I had one I followed their directions and drank all the water they said and I ended up in excruciating pain (couldn't even sit down) only to be told to just go let a little out.   I talked to a nurse friend who said if you hydrate normally then an additional 500 to 750 ml's is probably fine and every time after that I have drank 500 ml (2 cups) the hour before and then sipped on water until my appointment.   I haven't had to let any out and they get beautiful images without the agony and tears!

Disclaimer: do not take this as medical advice and do what your doctor says please!

Okay where was I?  

Oh yeah ultrasound....So I gave her a lay of the land, as you may remember my parts are all twisted up and in a weird position, and off we went.   She got super silent during the transvaginal ultrasound so I knew something was up.    I got the call from my doctor a few days later setting up an appointment for today - so it couldn't have been that bad.

Today he told me that I have an unusual (but not cancerous unusual) thickening of the endometrium and another cyst on the left side.

OH YOU MEAN THE LEFT SIDE WHERE THEY DIDN"T GET ALL THE FREAKING CYST LAST TIME?????????????????????????

insert deep breathing here.......

So the thickening of the lining is called Endometrial Hyperplasia, while the cells don't look "off" as a white, overweight, menopause age (but not yet) woman whose family has a history of cancer, there is some concern.

Because we are not looking at hormone therapy we are left with:

• waiting to see what happens or 
• taking action if anything gets "concerning looking" or 
• getting a hysterectomy.  

Because the thickened lining can cause heavy bleeding which is already lessening my current quality of life (and the cleanliness of my house) and Hyperplasia without atypia can eventually develop atypical cells, I am voting for an eviction....

WAIT.....I realized that last sentence may have sounded bad....my house is messy not because of the shining, LOL....its messy because I am too tired to do anything but work and sleep, so I am not cleaning!

Now that we have that settled....

Here we are - a mere 2 and a half almost 3 years later we are sitting in a position of likely having to go back for surgery and yank it all out like I wanted the first time.

Its incredibly frustrating to me that we would be here. I felt then like I wasn't being taken seriously and you can bet your ass that won't happen again!   I will keep you updated when I have some more news, oooh I should have asked the doctor what size the cyst was this time.

Okay I have to go have a nap, I am exhausted and have to go to rehearsal.