Childbirth as a cure for endometriosis... Timi's story disproves this misconception, but don't worry, the smile is not lost on you!
I've always wanted to be a young mother, so it was natural that my partner and I started the project right after the wedding. It didn't even occur to me that I might have a problem with it, although he was worried about me ovulating properly because I had a lot of irregular periods, I can't say I could have adjusted my clock. And my doctor scared the hell out of me by saying that I was too skinny, that it wouldn't be good, even though I had a healthy BMI, even though I was a little bit skinny.
Then I finally got it right, luckily, I was pregnant in the third month and apart from two minor bleeding, hospital rushing, calming pariahs, everything was fine. The baby and I grew and grew nicely, and we prepared for the birth, which turned out to be a horror story. I'm not going to go into it, because that's not the purpose of this writing, suffice to say that it was a bad experience, very bad, I had to have an operation after giving birth, while I was being picked up by Borcsi's baby daddy and not by me, well not together, it still hurts to this day. But in the end, both me and the baby went home healthy and I wanted nothing more than to enjoy being a baby and not care anymore about what happened.
Very soon, 4 weeks after the birth and the surgery, I started to menstruate, even though I was breastfeeding, well, I didn't have much milk, I needed to supplement, but that's mainly why I was breastfeeding. I was very worried because the bleeding was very heavy, very painful, even though I had never had this experience before. I had to go to the emergency room, I was so scared, they told me that the first one could be like that, to go home, it would go away.
I was bleeding for 17 days, at the end I could barely feed the baby, I was weak and tired, but then I woke up and I was ready to forget about it all and just focus on the baby. I could feel during the cycle that it hurt to pee, that things weren't going like they used to, but I'd never had a baby before, so I didn't know what was wrong, what was normal. The next menstruation was no better, in fact, it hurt so much that I cried, squirmed, begged for help, begged to be taken seriously. Then they finally examined me properly and said they could see something, but it was hard to go back when I was bleeding so much, I should go back when it was over. I was able to go back after two weeks, by which time I had extensive chocysts in both ovaries, and they recommended surgery and medication. My big trauma was not just this, but having to stop breastfeeding because of it.
I had the operation and just 11 weeks after giving birth, I had to have endometriosis nodules removed from both ovaries, the uterine ligaments and the bladder, even though I had never had any problems before and nothing was seen at birth. I really can't think of anything else that went wrong at the caesarean or the extra surgery afterwards, because even then there was no endometriosis there, and 11 weeks later there was endometriosis almost everywhere.
I'm very shocked by this diagnosis, but I'm a real fighter, I can get up from this, I know. The few months after the operation were still bad, but now I feel I'm on the right track, I'm on a light diet, I don't eat sugar or milk at all, I take long walks with Borcsi and sometimes I even go jogging, I've mastered a super relaxation technique and I'm trying to share the baby tasks with my partner more, so I can relax. He needs a little nudge on this one, but it's his birthday and Nóri's Relationship Team Building Handbook I bought it for him as a present, so I'm optimistic about the progress:-)
Month by month I feel better, the pain is less, the symptoms are less. I have a direction, I just have to keep going and look forward, not back!
Good luck to everyone, as Nóri says: "Endometriosis is a tough opponent, but not invincible!"
Timi
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