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A small peek at my Health Journey
Since 2017, my life has felt like one endless string of pain and complications. Today, I feel so lost and hopeless—I can’t stop crying.
In 2017, I was given an IUD. Almost immediately, I started having sharp, stabbing cramps. My period didn’t stop for over three months. People were alarmed—at least, my friends’ parents were.
Then in 2020, the pain intensified. My period grew heavier, so I had the IUD removed and switched to oral birth control with estrogen. But the pain and bleeding kept getting worse. I’d bleed for over two weeks or have only one week a month without bleeding. I had random spotting, and my breasts would swell painfully. The bleeding was heavy and clotted, and the cramps were so intense I’d feel them in my thighs, with heavy pressure against my lower back.
A doctor (before I had a regular family doctor) noticed I had high estrogen. He didn’t follow up, and when I finally got a family doctor, neither did he.
The back pain kept worsening, to the point where I had to sit on the toilet in a certain way to prevent spasms. It hurt so badly that I couldn’t get into bed without agonizing pain, and no position offered relief. I had to sleep with pillows between my legs and arms. In the mornings, I had to shift onto my back very carefully. But if I stayed on my back, the pain would become crippling. My family doctor told me to wear flat shoes.
I began having shooting pain in my lower body—in my bum, in my vagina....
Since 2017, my life has felt like one endless string of pain and complications. Today, I feel so lost and hopeless—I can’t stop crying.
In 2017, I was given an IUD. Almost immediately, I started having sharp, stabbing cramps. My period didn’t stop for over three months. People were alarmed—at least, my friends’ parents were.
Then in 2020, the pain intensified. My period grew heavier, so I had the IUD removed and switched to oral birth control with estrogen. But the pain and bleeding kept getting worse. I’d bleed for over two weeks or have only one week a month without bleeding. I had random spotting, and my breasts would swell painfully. The bleeding was heavy and clotted, and the cramps were so intense I’d feel them in my thighs, with heavy pressure against my lower back.
A doctor (before I had a regular family doctor) noticed I had high estrogen. He didn’t follow up, and when I finally got a family doctor, neither did he.
The back pain kept worsening, to the point where I had to sit on the toilet in a certain way to prevent spasms. It hurt so badly that I couldn’t get into bed without agonizing pain, and no position offered relief. I had to sleep with pillows between my legs and arms. In the mornings, I had to shift onto my back very carefully. But if I stayed on my back, the pain would become crippling. My family doctor told me to wear flat shoes.
I began having shooting pain in my lower body—in my bum, in my vagina....
