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KIND OF LONG!!
Summer 1985...
As an 11 year old turning 12 in the fall and starting Junior High, for the first time I began to feel out of place with my appearance. Sure, I had always had some baby fat, but I was gaining a bit more, getting taller, hair on my legs, underarms and my mother bought me my first bra a B cup. My sisters and older friends kept telling me, "Monthly visit from Aunt Flo are next". Being the pre-teen Judy Blume fanatic that I was and knowing "Are You There God , It's Me Margaret" by heart, I was excited to be one of the first "women" in my circle of friends. Wow, I was going to start the 7th grade with my period! Woo hoo!
7th Grade came and went...no period.
8th Grade came and went..no period.
Summer 1987...
Ahhh..Highschool..almost ready to start. Excited cause I have a great tan, cute clothes, the best hair and I will have friends who are cheerleaders and Juniors and Seniors, what could be bad? Start gaining weight, even though I swim 8 hours a day and am constantly on the go and don't eat much. Dad says my personality and moods are changing I am not the same, he chalks it up to puberty, but mom is concerned. Being a nurse she finds it odd that my body is developing, but no period.
Freshman year..came and went..more weight gain, some grades go down, not liking school so much..still..no period.
Sophomore year..came and went..more weight gain..grades are bad, hate school, always in trouble..guess what..no period.
Summer 1989...
Lets hear it for Weight Watchers...lose almost 50lbs, size 11/12, still kind of big because I am 15 going on 16 with a 20 year olds body and curves surrounded by size 4 midget teenage girls. Transfer to new school, seem happy and mom is pleased that I am getting back to me...
September 1989..mom takes me to my first OB/GYN..first off.. "She pregnant"?..umm no not unless she is the new Virign Mary. So, the jerk of a doctor says well "Quit being lazy, get off your butt and go out and do something and put down the chips and TV remote". Well, after my mom bit her tongue in half, she explained to him how active I was and how little I ate..so he did an examine didn't seem to find anything, gave me a shot to help start ovulation and a prescription for the pill, told me to look into the Optifast diet and sent me on my Merry Way...
Several days..later...
WOO HOO! Captain we have a period! Perfectly normal period...and it was like that for oh about a year or so..as long as I took the pill they were normal, light and regular...
Things going ok until...
Senior Year...
Starting to skip periods...get real tired..sick alot and having mood swings..then I started to get real heavy periods.small clots and painful..my sister had wicked cramps so we just chalked it up to genetics...gained about 5lbs back...kind of a blah year.
1991...GRADUATION BABY!!
Get out in the workforce..hmm..but I am missing alot of work..tired all the time, irritable and no periods for a couple months and when i get one it lasts a month and is kind of heavy..
Go to OB/GYN..says just my luck heavy periods, lose some wieght , take the pill.
So, I go back on the pill..regular for ahwile..weight keeps going up and down..
Summer 92..
Had to leave job for a bit because I was so tired...and sick..bad cramps and lower abdominal pains..found out something wrong with gall blatter..could this be it? Will I get better...
For a bit...
93'...ER visit 3 times this year..doctor's find nothing...2 say lose weight..one says I am a hypochondriac.
94'...Guess what more ER visits..2 of them..just a little anemic and one doctor tells me the pain is an orthopedic problem...lots of pregnancy tests too...umm not the case..I tried to tell them.
95'...Get real bad sick one wintry day, go to urgent care, yee haw we may have found something ..I have severe hypothyriodism..effects energy, periods, moods...everything..and it is why I am overweight..could it possibly be we have a cure..we really found the problem?? Gives me script for thyroid pills and a hope..
Later on that year..hopes crushed...periods begin to get worse..bleed for month or 2 or not at all..clots the size of golf balls..moods really irratic..weight going haywire..doctors find nothing..
96'..same
97'...same
98'...try the pill one last time..things good for awhile..until..
Early 99'...periods are getting real bad..lasting 3 days..ending and coming back again a week later lasting 1 month...afraid to go places for fear pad will leak..clots the size of baseballs and painful..back hurts..side hurts.decide to give the medical world one last try and go to my sisters new OB/GYN
March 99'... Dr. Z's office..."I want you to have an internal sonogram and a regular sonogram and some blood tests , I have noticed cysts on your ovaries". Huh? What? Cysts? Oh my god. After bawling the following day I go for these tests...not even a day later I am back in his office..
"Well, there are so many cysts on your ovaries that we couldn't tell the size or how many..lets do a laproscopsy".
I was so scared..this is what loomed in my head CANCER CANCER CANCER...
Go in for the surgery...and I'll be dammned..all these years later..I am not crazy or a hypochondriac...I have a problem and "it" has a name. PCOS..Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome (visit PCOS.NET for more info or SoulCyster.Com)
He went in and said my cysts..which should be the size of walnuts were the size of extra large grapefruits and that they were covered in about 10 to 15 years of cysts..from the onset of puberty until now..just covered with cysts and a thick protective shell..he drained them and thought that might help and then we could try some drug treatments to get me back on a cycle and back on track..hormones in check and healthy..children are not a possibilty though..but they did a DNC and removed polyps and fibroids and some pre cancerous tissue..he still seems concerned.
...things are better...but wow my moods are worse
...periods back strong and bad..we try stronger BCP to help...really really tired..have a couple of almost pass out episodes
July 99..bleeding so badly, I can't leave the bathroom ...going through 7 to 10 pads per hour..go to hospital..hemoglobin 4.9...scheduled for a blood transfusion.. 2 pints..
Talk to Dr.Z..nothing working on the strongest BCP legal to give, and taking 3 times a day and pain meds..make the biggest choice in my life...TOTAL HYSTERECTOMY..
Aug 99...In pain so bad on a narcotic..scheduled for surgery....have surgery..not only were ovarie bad..uterus had cancerous tissue developing and weighed a ton...thickening of wall lining..tilted and huge..
EVERYTHING GONE...In pain..healing well..drop a buttload of weight..go through it all..hotflashes...slight hair growth...get it under control..
1 Year Later...August 2000...come to grips..bawl cry..healing well..Doctor says it is all going to begin now..your nerves and muscle is almost grown back..I healed amazingly and will only get better from here...
Septemeber 2000 move to Georgia..new life for the new me..
October 2000..turn 27 and finally cry over loss of ability to have children and all of it crushes on in...
November 2000...really beginning to heal inside and out.
Present Day 2000..ready to live and take all life has to offer..learn and work to lose rest of weight and begin to live and feel like a whole woman again... yes I lost out on many many years of my life, but I got it back now and am also validated..I thank god for saving my life, instead of taking it.
God Bless You All and It Is Good To Know I have Hyster Sisters!
Sorry this was so long!
Hugs and Love,
Annie
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TAH/BSO - The road to and from my hyst (long)
TAH/BSO- My Story - long but worth it.
SAH/BSO - It's been a long road!
TVH - the long road back
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