I went in there with my unsealed report and she took a quick look at it. She is not at all interested in doing surgery again, much less a hysterectomy. I think now that she knows what's going on in there, she is much less concerned than she was before. Then she wrote me a prescription for birth control pills, and I took it. I guess I recognize this is usually the first line of defense against endometriosis. She said that it would be at least two months before my body totally adjusted and I would most certainly be nauseous. Ugh. None of this made me happy. I think I would've been happier if she had insisted on starting them right after I had my last surgery. I don't know how effective it will be in getting rid of what's already in there.
I have never taken birth control pills and after I went through my pregnancies I was very grateful. Her saying I was going to be 'nauseous' makes me thinking of people saying they have 'morning sickness'. There's a reason we only have the two kids. Her idea of me being nauseous conjures up memories of a home health care nurse coming to hang my IV bags, followed shortly thereafter with admissions to the hospital and literally weeks without eating.
After hearing all of this I told TD that maybe we should've just had another kid. It does the same thing as many of the drugs they could give me and we would have a sweet little person at the end of it. Now I am nervous because school is over in a few short weeks, it's heating up outside and I might want to spend the next two months fighting the urge to vomit profusely. She also said she gave me a medium pill, she didn't even start me out on a mini-pill. If I can tolerate all of this, she might work it to where I don't have periods. That's something I can get on board with, as long as it doesn't come with all of the nasty side effects I have heard about birth control pills. I start them on Sunday. I guess we will just have to wait and see. Something tells me I should just get out the barf bowl, just in case.
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I hope you don't react to them to horribly. The only thing birth control pills did to me was give me bigger boobs. No lie. I went up nearly a cup size after I started taking them. Then I actually got pregnant and am nursing a baby so now they are a full 2 cup sizes bigger than pre-pill/baby. Sorry if this was totally TMI.
It's hard to imagine that all of the women who take birth control pills are also nauseous! I hope that's a worst case scenario.
I might just be a special case Lori. Let's just say I would rather do my chemo all over again than ever be pregnant again. Maybe I am allergic to progesterone, that good old pregnancy hormone. But chemo, back in the '80s, was barbaric compared to what they do now, and I would still rather do that again.
Thanks for encouragement, Katrina. If your comment is TMI, then I might as well change the title of my blog to TMI. Ooo, I wonder if that's already taken.
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