Medical trauma
How do people keep going after years and years of medical trauma? Genuinely I need to know.
The biggest impact was endometriosis. For 10 years I kept bringing up all my issues. Weight gain, painful sex. Extremely random periods. Sometimes I’d go 12 months without a period. After so many years the pain was every single day. My stomach was distended every single day and hard to the touch. Every doctors ran tests, had ultrasounds done, bloodwork done all that. Oh your fine, there’s no issues. The pain is from your anxiety and the weight gain is from poor diet and exercise. I was running 10-15 miles a week and eating fairly well. I was gaslit for years until I went straight to a surgeon and he immediately knew the answers. I cried leaving his office it felt like someone finally heard and believed me. It finally affirmed it was real and not just all a concocted conspiracy in my brain. 🧠
I’ve had gut issues for just about 10 years as well. I never know how my body will react.
Physically hot and sweaty, gut pain, gas, hives. It’s so many different foods as well so I’d have to be on a very limited diet to feel “fine” not to meant the bloating and distended belly never went away. I have again jumped through every hoop and test requested. GI scope, fecal tests, blood work, urine screens. They tell me there’s nothing wrong with me and I just feel like I can’t keep going. Food feels like an enemy but I can’t live if i can’t eat.
Hopefully I don’t sound like a maniac.