i went to my check-up with my OB/GYN this week to review how the hormone therapy (extended birth control) did with my belly pain. dr. sanchez walked in and asked how i was doing… “nervous”. i seriously felt like i was gunna puke the entire morning before my appt cuz i was nervous that once again, i’d leave without an answer. “there’s no need to be worried, tell me about the last 6 weeks, since i saw you last”
long story short, i felt better. during the first week after starting hormone therapy i had almost no pain. then the next few weeks were off and on pain, but i still had days where i had no pain at all. i noticed that when i increased my exercise regime (in week two and continued through week 6) that’s when the pain started acting up. there were times when i’d be doing nothing but watching tv or sleeping and still have pain, but most of it was during exercise.
dr. sanchez said that after hearing everything i had to say, it sounds like i have endometriosis. i asked him a TON of questions about endometriosis… more than you might think, and he was kind enough to answer them all. there’s a lot to it, so if you’re interested feel free to google it or i can explain it all over coffee/beer. but overall, it wont kill me. there’s two ways to get ride of it, getting pregnant or removing ovaries… and i’m not down for either of those right now. but you can somewhat control it with hormone therapy. so i’m gunna keep on the birth control for another 6 weeks straight and see how i feel. if i’m even better than i am now, we’ll keep up the therapy. if i’m the same or worse, he might operate to try and remove some of the endometriosis. but one step at a time. there’s a good chance that i might have pain my whole life… or until i have kids. but the pain is a lot more manageable under this hormone therapy. so i’m not too worried. i can handle it!
best part about this all… is that i finally have an answer!
YAY! An answer!