Keep a personal wellness journal on DailyStrength to track your health and communicate with friends. http://dailystrength.org/people/83364/journal Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:06:05 +0100 DailyStrength RSS 0.11.3.0.6833 (FeedCreator 1.7.2) http://dailystrength.org/images/comprofiler/avatar/gallery/flow_04.gif http://dailystrength.org/people/83364 http://dailystrength.org/people/83364/journal/1299602  And just like that, on Monday the pain and bleeding went away. The only thing that remained was the lower back pain.  On Sunday I needed a wheelchair for stability. On Monday, I was a nanny and after work I walked up and down the block collecting petition signatures for a four-way st... Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:09:40 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/83364/journal/1297238  Well I didn't feel better the next day, or the next. I didn't feel better until late last night. I'm back to work today and haven't had to take any medication. The bleeding has stopped. I still have lower back pain, though. It's mild to moderate, so I've been moving slo... Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:10:19 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/83364/journal/1293113 I forgot to record my pain for August. Ah well, you all get the picture, you know what it's like. Day to day, I've been working as a nanny and planning for my wedding in October. It's been busy around here.  The pain struck me down yesterday, and I spent all day yesterday ... Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:00:09 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/83364/journal/1202736 Last month I did not post anything about my pain and suffering. I got lazy I guess. At the same time, jobs started ramping up again. I've gone back to work as a child care provider.  Now I have a three-month contract with a local family to care for their infant daughter, and in September, I... Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:24:16 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/83364/journal/1044607 Saturday morning I awoke from nightmares of gushing everywhere and as expected, upon awakening, I really was starting to gush. Thankfully I awoke before bleeding through to the bed.  I was bleeding heavy throughout the morning, and at one point turned pale after breakfast of yogurt and frui... Sun, 11 May 2008 16:44:06 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/83364/journal/1044599 The following post is from my personal journal, so I'm pasting it here. This entry is from Friday, May 9, 2008: I was really out of it this morning and felt VERY weak. My friend came over and we went out to the backyard and sat in the sun for a bit. It felt really nice.  I had no p... Sun, 11 May 2008 16:42:26 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/83364/journal/1038094 My period is a tricky bastard. It arrived on May 6 around 10:30pm. I medicated with Ibuprofen 600 and felt moderate cramps come on before the meds fully took effect. I went to bed. Woke up on May 7 (yesterday) in moaning pain, and took a Tylenol 3 and went back to bed. Woke up and the bleeding was g... Thu, 08 May 2008 15:38:45 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/83364/journal/1033840 T-minus one day til bleedy doom, and I've only had very minor symptoms. Much better than some months, when I'm feeling crampy, cranky and rundown a week beforehand! Although today at the gym, I could feel the uterine cramps coming on. They were minor but they were there. And I have been... Tue, 06 May 2008 21:38:37 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/83364/journal/1030765 Back on April 14, 2008, I went to the E.R. for extreme pain and bleeding due to the Endometriosis, and I was treated badly and left humiliated.I wrote a big ‘ol complaint letter and sent it to the hospital within a week of the incident. The person I complained to called back and left a message... Mon, 05 May 2008 17:28:12 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/83364/journal/987142 Yesterday I took it easy around the house. I walked to the doctor first thing in the morning to get the liver enzyme bloodwork done. It was a nice walk to and from the doctor (about a mile total distance).  I made an appointment to be fingerprinted for the daycare agency I’ve been spe... Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:45:15 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/83364/journal/981437 THIS POST CONTAINS LOTS OF TMI AND BITCHING. By yesterday late afternoon, I was feeling better. The bleeding had also subsided. I tried getting some work done on the astrology business. I didn’t eat very well yesterday because I didn’t have much of an appetite.  When my man got... Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:47:52 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/83364/journal/978677 My hateful period, George, arrived one day early, on Friday. I had almost skipped out of going to the gym, because I felt so crappy in the morning, like george would be here any second. But I went to the gym, and had a good workout in the pool.  Later that afternoon is when george arrived. ... Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:42:32 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/83364/journal/952343 My new GYN called yesterday to see if I'd called my insurance company about getting authorisation for the Tens Unit she wants to prescribe me for the pain, because I have had such bad luck with non-Tylenol-based opiates to manage the pain. I told her that unfortunately, she would need to prove t... Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:43:04 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/83364/journal/923288 I had withdrawls on Thursday and Friday. The stomach cramps and nausea hit me at the same exact time of day, and I couldn't eat. Then I was fine by Saturday.  As good as the Dilaudid was to me while I was in pain, I really do NOT need to be having withdrawls from that shit for days after th... Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:17:47 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/83364/journal/916057 Yesterday afternoon, I was eating Amy’s brand corn tortilla cheese enchiladas, topped with Trader Joe’s jalapeño tortilla chips, when I had a full GI reaction. It started with tightening in the stomach, then full on stomach pain, then nausea, then the rest.  I looked at ... Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:00:39 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/83364/journal/914515 Yesterday, the pain got so bad that I took 2mg all at once, because the pain got so bad sometime between 6:30 and 7pm. So yesterday, I had a total of 4 or 4.5mg for the whole day, which is about 2 and a half pills total.  Last night, I had tears in my eyes and a furrowed brow from the pain,... Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:41:45 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/83364/journal/911526 Today is Day 3 of george, and Day 2 of the heavy bleeding.  Today, 1mg is no longer enough to stop the pain.  Monday night I went through a total of two Dilaudid pills, so that’s a total of 2mg in one day.  Tuesday, I woke up in screaming pain and went right for the Dilaudid... Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:11:34 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/83364/journal/909212 My period arrived yesterday. The pain ramped up badly by 7pm.  Last night was the 15-year anniversary of a local goth club. I waffled and hemmed and hawed for hours, and despite the pain, at the last minute, decided I would go. I popped 1mg of Dilaudid (I have the generic, which is Hydromor... Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:47:28 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/83364/journal/906089 The past month has felt like one long breath-holding session for me.  I just didn't trust the home pregnancy tests, and I was feeling low level nausea, and I had swollen, painful breasts and legs.  Then, last week, I got all the symptoms of my period without the period. So I spent the ... Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:00:42 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/83364/journal/896196 I woke up to get ready to work out this morning and had to stand in the hallway for a couple of minutes to guage whether or not I felt well enough to leave the house. I'm not bleeding yet - it's the pre-menstrual pain and discomfort. I had slight nausea, too. When I have that, usually it mea... Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:47:53 +0100