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#uterine fibroids
wine-effectao3 · 24 days
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If you have PCOS or fibroids, you can appreciate easier with this diagram, why they are subject to so much pain from the pressure those cysts and growths make in your abdomen. Both those conditions can be complicated by existing or developing endometriosis.
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ambitionectomy · 2 months
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For The Boston Globe, I drew this “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” parody. Only for perimenopause, that period (so to speak) of unanswerable questions (except by God).
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onwacollective · 2 months
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I created this Womb Healing Masterpost a year or so ago. Since then, I’ve continued to grow this list of resources, adding more info as I learn it. Every book, interview, podcast on the list I’ve read or listened to and found useful in my own healing. But I realize all this info can be overwhelming, confusing, and time consuming to get through to create the real change needed to balance your hormones. So, I’ve created cycle syncing wallpaper habit reminders to support women and menstruating individuals in balancing their hormones HERE.
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How to use:
These are specifically created for the 80% of women experiencing hormonal imbalance. I’ve designed them to make integrating the information and ancestral wisdom needed to balance hormones easily accessible. Switch each wallpaper background as you transition through each phase of your cycle. Every time you glance at your phone you get a reminder of what to focus on at a specific point in your cycle.
Each wallpaper contains:
🌟 A hormonal phase specific grocery list informed by the Autoimmune protocol (AIP) which means it excludes largely known gut irritants like nuts, seeds, beans, eggs, nightshade vegetables etc.
🌟 A list of herbal teas specific to the needs of each hormonal phase
🌟 A list of self-care practices specific to each hormonal phase
🌟 A journaling prompt
🌟 An affirmation
🌟 Basic overview of the hormonal changes occurring within the body during each phase
🌟 A list of vitamins/minerals to focus on in each phase (grocery list includes foods that contain these vitamins/minerals!)
🌟 Best care practices and tips for each phase
I have a vision of these hanging as posters in schools to teach children about the changes in each cycle. I wanted to make balancing hormones so easy that teenage me could do it. The info on the habit reminders connects to the practices and teachings described in the original tumblr post so if you ever want to dive deeper into a segment of info you can. You can find more info on how to download HERE.
If we let it, womb healing can be a beautiful initiation into feminine power. Be gentle with yourself 💗
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impunkster-syndrome · 9 months
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Periods should not regularly put you at an 8-8.5/10 on the pain scale right?
Just tagging for any answers from anyone because I want to rip my uterus out right now and if I wouldn't fucking die by doing it at home I would. I don't feel like I can eat or drink anything at the moment, not even water.
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kael-writ · 9 months
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so TW for female reproductive medical trauma if youve also experienced it but if youre a cis man I truly dont want you to pass by without listening to this.
If I was bleeding constantly in any other way - almost every day, for 4 months, sometimes so heavily to where I was in the ER and needed a blood transfusion, I need iron, etc - even with medication that barely reduces it, stops it for four days days maybe... if I was bleeding from my nose, or my gut, or internally, or anally, or in any other way like this, I think I would have gotten surgery right away. I think I wouldnt have even waited as long in the ER waiting room.
Just because menstruation is normal doesn't mean that a uterine fibroid causing bleeding that is NOT menstruation is normal or ok. This is not ok. I am not ok. And women who work in gynecology KNOW it is not ok and have said so and are angry and fighting for me. And all of them have a cis man as head of the department and are understaffed and exhausted and backed up with not even a first clinic visit opening for MONTHS, and are not being taken seriously in the OR.
THIS. IS. NOT. OK.
This is institutionalized sexism that puts our bodies and mental health and finances in danger. It's not ok. It needs to change, like so many things need to change.
And this is also why I am pro-choice, not to derail onto a controversial separate issue but when you stigmitize and illegalize abortion "exceptions for the life of the mother" is going to result in dead pregnant people, period the end. Because doctors will fail them. They won't take it seriously. And this HAS happened, such as to an Irish woman named Savita Hallappanavar.
I am sure there are even more examples besides fibroids and pregnancy, I wouldnt be surprised if uterine cancer patients have these issues and IUDs and god knows what else, and Ive already heard horror stories.
Im so tired, and so depressed, and overwhelmed, and Im angry.
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silverglass83 · 5 months
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Trying not to think about my upcoming hysterectomy surgery so I made some memes...
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fruitbatbaaabe · 21 days
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I didn’t expect so many aspirations to be so prevalent so soon post op. My life was robbed from me for years. I’m so grateful for my hysterectomy.
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heraspeacocks · 1 month
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Fair warning: medical/long-term condition rant incoming.
So, this week has been one of my bad weeks for pain with uterine fibroids and (we think) endometriosis. I have been tired, low-energy, and walking around with a dull ache most of the week.
The acute attacks of pain have gone way past my 8 on the pain scale (8 is "if I didn't know what this was I'd go to the hospital"). Those are the worst and most exhausting. The pain is sharp, lasts anywhere between 10 and 20 minutes and the attacks can come back-to-back. The pain is so bad I cannot walk. I mean, I could plausibly move in an emergency, but I don't think I could move quickly. These make my migraines look appealing (hell, a few of these have made all but my worst migraine feel like a mild sinus headache).
Yesterday our two wonderful custodians caught me in a less-used hallway using a nice, cold wall to hold myself up. They were so wonderful in that moment (they are just wonderful all around).
It's hard. I am having surgery in April that will hopefully fix all of this. But I don't know what I will do if it doesn't. I don't want to think about it.
All of my colleagues are being very understanding about this (those that know), but there are a few that get it better than others. Shout out to my one colleague who looked at me and said "how are you out of bed?" I then got to inform him I spent the previous evening in bed trying to recover. He's even put "[my name] uterus" as a calendar event in his phone.
I'm beat. I'm hurting. And I'm tired.
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theendwhereibegin · 2 months
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Let's normalise speaking about our struggles, be them personal, medical, or professional. You never know who can benefit from your story. Someone might go through the same things and will feel less lonely and more understood. You may be that one story that changes their lives.
I'll start.
Being a woman isn't easy. Being a woman is more than meets the eye. It's more than dresses, make-up, and girls' nights out. Being a woman comes with a lot of struggles, struggles that men will never go through because, biologically speaking, they can't.
It's not enough that we have to battle pain every month and try to lead a normal day to day life by going through all that. No, it was definitely not enough, so the universe added, on top of all that, medical issues that make our monthly struggles even worse, almost incompatible with a normal life.
One of those many medical issues became my reality 2 years ago when I was diagnosed with a fibroid.
I have struggled prior to that for a lot of years, years in which I saw specialists who told me that I should relax, it's normal for a woman to feel pain. No one understood that the level of pain I was dealing with was crippling and causing me anxiety every month for at least 1 full day. That day I couldn't move, breathe, or even stay in bed and even with this description, specialists put it down as being normal period pains. Yes! I said period, big deal.
Because, medically speaking, everyone said I was okay, I took the normal over the counter pain relief medication which worked for a while, until it stopped and nothing I could find in a pharmacy could relieve the pain.
I thought stress is one of the factors that added to the pain so I moved on the other side of Europe, in hopes that pursuing a new life and being genuinely happy for the first time in my life would help my body recover. It didn't.
As another year went by with the same level of pain I finally caved and went to see another specialist and begged her while crying to do something because I can't live like this anymore. She understood me. She understood my struggles, and for the first time, I felt heard and seen.
When I was told that my crippling pain was caused by a fibroid, I felt like the entire world just collapsed on me. There was something wrong with me, and no one has been able to pick up on it up until her. There was something wrong with one of the most important parts of me, the part of me that would someday make me a mother, and that was enough to send me spiralling right there in the doctor's office.
Fortunately for me, the specialist was amazing and talked me through everything and explained to me that it's not my fault and that the fact that no one has managed to diagnose me properly had added up on everything my body was already going through. I was prescribed the proper treatment and sent home. Even with proper treatment, I am still going to the depths and hell and back some months, but at least, it's not every month at this point, which I am grateful for.
Unfortunately for other women, they weren't as lucky as me to have a doctor who would be willing to talk freely about their issue. Unfortunately for other women, they are still being told it's normal period pains and that we all go through pain monthly. Unfortunately for other women, they are still seeing dozens of specialists and leave their practices without a proper diagnosis, a diagnosis that is so important.
Unfortunately, even in 2024, having a fibroid or endometriosis diagnosis is almost impossible because most doctors can't even pick up on it while seeing patients. So many girls and women struggle monthly, and their issues are written off as being something they are not. So many girls and women feel ashamed to even go back into a doctors office after they've been sent home so many times without the proper diagnosis and medication. So many of us feel unheard and unseen and just choose to crawl into a corner and not bother anyone anymore.
I am here to tell you that you are not alone and that, in fact, what you are going through has a name and most certainly is not caused just because we were born as women. I am here to tell you that there is a light at the end of the tunnel, no matter how far it may seem to be. Never give up. If you feel pain at levels that surpass anything you have ever felt before, don't give up and barge through those doors and demand to be seen. Don't let them tell you it's normal to be in so much pain just because everyone goes through it. Not everyone goes through this hell every month. It's not normal to be in so much pain you can't even move or breathe. It's not normal to cry in bed begging for help. It's not normal to go through so much pain you actually start wishing you weren't born to begin with.
You deserve a normal life, even if not entirely pain-free. You deserve to have those good months in which you feel you can conquer the world. It's not normal to crawl out of bed in pain every month of your life. You deserve a break, even if for a couple of months at a time, but you deserve that.
If the second opinion didn't work, get a 4th, 5th, 10th, until you walk out with a proper diagnosis, because, girls, we deserve to be heard and taken care of.
If you need someone to talk to, someone who is going through the same thing as you are, I am here. We can talk treatments, pain relief, and technique. We can talk about anything and everything, because we are stronger together.
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audkitty · 7 months
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Woke up screaming from pain. I’m on my second period of the month and I’m passing clots so large I feel the cramps in my bones.
I can’t wait to have this tumor cut out of me.
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eatclean-bewhole · 1 year
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swirlingleavessss · 5 months
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It’s been a bit since he let me hold him!! This was a “live” photo & he was purring his sweet deep purr! I had just gotten home from my partner’s punk 🪨 rock show. It was fun, glad I saw them! Then I slinked out to get back to Ives. 🩷
I have an appt/ over due check in with uterine fibroids stuff on Friday - a little anxious but grateful the insurance covers it.
I’m waiting to reach out to friends. I just want to get through this work & appt week and make some art/ come back to myself/emotionally de-clog. I’ve been cleaning the apartment vs making art and it’s making me grumpy (in my head- not outwardly😅)). 🥐
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sup3rqu33n · 2 months
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So I have an IUD for the past 2 years…
It’s been helpful. I’ve been in remission for a year now, and it’s amazingly unstressful… but it’s not all perfect… and things have been off.
I don’t have periods anymore, but I do get these monthly days where I have lots of mucusy stuff. I call it my ghost period, because cramps too. So like there ya go.
I have the iud because of endometrial neoplasia. My oncologist said the options were taking out the uterus or putting the iud in, and other such things.
So I was trying to explain it to ai but she didn’t get it. She did help me feel a little better though.
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high-holy-daze · 3 months
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I still get some PMS symptoms even after my hysterectomy but they still catch me off guard sometimes
like I just felt some cramping starting up, and my split second thought was really "oh no my period is coming"
baby girl they took that piece outta you
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v-for-vaginismus · 4 months
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Recovery is a bitch and to recap my goals:
day 1 - surgery day
Day 2 - goal was pee + remove catheter - aka try to get up and walk to the bathroom & go home from the hospital
Day 3 - eat actual food+ move a little around the house
Day 4 - walked 2.5 blocks outside slowly with my moms help
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