TAKING IT SLOW, BUT ON THE GO

IN DISBELIEF IT IS FRIDAY ALREADY.  Blink and the week disappeared.  In some ways that's good when waiting for an appointment.  In other ways it's not so great.  NINE DAYS and counting until my GYNECOLOGIST APPOINTMENT.  

I have managed to stay busy, rest a great deal and pack some more.  Figuring out what to do. THE VALENTINES ARE IN THE MAIL.

This past week was rough, but I forced myself to get some things done even though I wasn't moving very fast.  I took it slow, but was on the go.  

I hope the time flies and I will stay busy until my appointment.  I thought I was in the clear about the AUB.  Two days passed and I was alright, then today somebody decided to pay me another visit.  I don't get it.  

I will be curious as to what the new doctor tells me.  Preparing my questions and researching about my situation.  It would appear that because I had a tubal ligation that my ovaries were effected by having loss of blood flow to them which damaged them causing hormonal imbalances.  Also when the uterus is damaged, it can cause heavy bleeding later in life. Increased facial hair did happen.  I remember 8 months after I had the tubal ligation that I had a whopper of a kidney infection which lead into about 10 years of urinary tract infections.

I'd ask the doctors, can my husband and myself be passing a urinary infection back and forth. Many said no until I went to a Houston doctor who treated both of us because he said yes, we could be passing them back and forth.  After we were both treated, the infections stopped.

About 5 years after I had the tubal, my menses became lighter to the point of almost not having a period.  This is when I went to a Gynecologist who gave me an injection and I'm sorry to say that I do not remember what it was, but it did cause me to start bleeding heavy.  I returned to the doctor and he gave me another shot.  Stupid as I was, I didn't ask will this stop the bleeding?  It didn't.  I continued to bleed.  Returning to the doctor agin, he said he could give me another shot, but I might have a period for a year.  My thoughts were, why would I want to have a period for a year?  AND why was I bleeding from the shots?  It wasn't explained to me and I didn't have the suave to know what to ask.

Instead I was given a D&C which did stop the bleeding.  If memory serves me right, I didn't have a period for a year.  I decided to go see a Chiropractor about having my back adjusted to help with urinary tract infections as I was having way too many and pulling at straws for answers.  I wanted to know why I was having so many infections.  Was I having them because of this, that or the other?  I went so far as to contact a sanitary pad company in which their representative was very good at passing the buck and no way could their pads cause urinary tract infections.

The Chiropractor spent a great deal of time with me and thought it odd that I wasn't having periods so he adjusted my lower back and a week to the day I began having regular periods.  My periods had returned.  I'd continue having urinary tract infections though and I remember getting very sad that I had been having them for so much during my young children's lives. When I went to a so-called specialist, he told me that we sometimes just don't know why we get these infections.

That wasn't helping.  SO when we moved to Omaha, I went to a doctor that did a procedure to stretch my urethra.  That didn't work either.  I'd suffer through.  I began wondering if when I had my tubal ligation if the surgeon may have left something in me that shouldn't have been left in me during surgery.

I now know that after a tubal, the uterus is traumatized which can lead to heavy bleeding when older and also after a tubal, the ovaries are damaged when the blood flow isn't the same as before.  This leads to the ovaries not ovulating which leads to a rise in testosterone causing facial hair to grow which I would have happen in my late thirties. 

PMS CAN INCREASE.

The reading I have done supports that after a tubal ligation, the loss of blood to the ovaries causes damage resulting in facial hirsutism.  Years after having a tubal ligation, heavy menses occur leading to getting a hysterectomy to relieve the bleeding.

I have learned that I am a mess.

If I had to do this tubal ligation thing over knowing what I know and having the Faith I have now....I would not have had the tubal ligation done and I strongly am against this procedure. Ignorance is not bliss.  I was not well informed as to what this procedure can do to you.  I was sterilized, but had no idea it would cause issues like it did.    

So sorry,
~d

         

Hormonal Symptoms Caused by Tubal Ligation

Effects of Tubal Ligation

Hormonal Symptoms Caused by Tubal Ligation

Michelle’s Question
“What happens to my hormones after a tubal ligation? I was told I would be fine, but now I feel like I’m going crazy because I feel so bad. I’m tired all the time. I have weight gain and migraines, and I am so moody.”

Have you had a tubal ligation or had your tubes tied? If so, then you probably didn’t expect to have any problems after this procedure. Your doctor may have told you that you wouldn’t feel any differently. The reality is, many women do notice changes after a tubal ligation.

During tubal ligation surgery, the fallopian tubes, which connect the ovaries to the uterus, are cut or blocked to prevent pregnancy. Women often refer to this procedure as having their “tubes tied.” In this video, Dr. Sheridan explains the hormonal effects of tubal ligation. (We’ll give you a hint: you’re NOT crazy!)

Michelle’s Question
“What happens to my hormones after a tubal ligation? I was told I would be fine, but now I feel like I’m going crazy because I feel so bad. I’m tired all the time. I have weight gain and migraines, and I am so moody.”

Video Transcript:

Dr. Sheridan: Michelle, I’m Dr. David Sheridan. You asked a really good question. When your tubes are tied they not only crimp the fallopian tube, but they include the blood vessel that goes to each ovary and they do this on each side. The ovary does get blood supply from two vessels, but so do a lot of tissues. That doesn’t mean you can cut one off, or crimp it and block it, and the tissue’s not affected. We see this from time to time in women who have their tubes tied. You might lose a little bit of each ovary and feel fine. You can lose a lot of each ovary, they can be left severely damaged, and almost throw hormones around randomly.

What this often does is affect a woman’s ability to make progesterone more so than estrogen for reasons that are not well understood. She can be left estrogen dominant, it’s a tricky term, but it really means progesterone deficient allowing estrogen effects to dominate. Estrogen becomes the dominant hormone.

This can cause severe mood swings, irritability, headaches, and even migraines. You can start swelling and have fluid retention. It can be mild, moderate, or even devastating. Just like PMS, some women are affected mildly; some are devastated by their symptoms. It’s the same cause even though the woman with PMS maybe didn’t have her tubes tied. It’s progesterone deficiency allowing estrogen to dominate. Fibroids, fibrocystic breast disease, endometriosis, ovarian cysts – these are other things that are caused by progesterone deficiency.

The biggest problem may be that progesterone’s your biggest bone builder, and it’s very important to help the brain repair itself. Progesterone’s probably your biggest anti-cancer compound. What we know in women that do not ovulate is that they have a 540% increase in breast cancer, a 1,000% increase in overall cancer mortality. These numbers are greater than the difference between smokers and non-smokers. I’m not saying that you make no progesterone, but you’re not making enough to balance the estrogen you have, causing symptoms that can be quite severe, threatening your bones, and also, in my opinion, raising cancer risks.

For someone with your problem, I would strongly recommend getting actual bioidentical progesterone from a doctor who knows how to adjust the dosage properly. It’s going to be best for your symptoms, way better than any drug, period. It’s going to be best for your health, because progesterone is very safe, and does not cause cancer. It actually protects against cancer, probably better than anything else.

You’re not crazy, but your doctors may be, because this has been going on a long time. I have been asked this, now I didn’t know what was going on, but when I was a resident, I didn’t know bioidentical hormones from my shoes. I did have women ask me, “I just had my tubes tied, could that make me feel bad?” Not all women, but many women, have their tubes tied and do okay, but some do not, because their ovaries are significantly damaged, and it continually makes them more and more estrogen dominant, in some cases even menopausal.

WAXING COLD

HOME.
To be at peace with the LIFE I have at my home is where I want to live.  Being honest here....there are times that I still get hung up about the details of running my home and the bills.  I have to pray and remind myself that I am just passing through this world and all the heartache and headaches will pass.  Still I am to be living a more excellent way and that means I am to honor my word and pay my bills.

LIFE is constantly changing and will not stay the same.  Reminding myself.  Counting my blessings and not forgetting God's benefits.  Human as I am...I must recall God's best for me.

I had a waxing appointment yesterday with my beautician and she said when we get to heaven....I chimed in about we will have a glorified body!!!  There won't be anymore waxing chin hair.  Ha.  I about came out of the chair yesterday with the discomforting pain of being waxed.  Ripping off the face hair was intense.  OUCH.  IT HURT.  HURT!  I walked out of the salon looking like I was sun burned.  I wasn't in pain, just looked like I spent too much time in the sun.

I did think of the Lord Jesus when the people ripped his face hair from his beard.  The intense pain would have been excruciating.  Makes me weak to think about.

After Jesus rose from the dead, Mary didn't recognize him.  She thought he was the gardener.  I think she partly didn't recognize him because he wouldn't have the beard that she knew him by.  He would have been without a beard in his risen body.  Maybe I am wrong.  Still, his beard was ripped from his body before he was crucified.  

Isaiah 50:6
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

We know that Jesus fulfilled all of the prophecies from the Old Testament regarding the Messiah (1 Cor. 15.3-4), Isaiah specifically mentions that this would be one of the ways that Jesus would suffer. We also know that much mocking & torture had taken place that was not described in great detail by the gospel writers. In fact, Isaiah even tells us that they beat our Lord so badly that He was so bloodied & battered that He barely even looked human (Is. 52.14).

I'm no man, but think if men had their facial hair waxed they'd know it isn't a pleasant thing to have done.  I have no desire to look like a man, talk like a man, walk like a man, dress like a man, act like a man.  I have NO DESIRE to be a man.  Praise GOD...I am a woman.  I am thankful to be the gender that I am.  Female.  Female.  Female.  Now to work on being more submissive to my husband and respecting him.

I have to go back in a week to have more waxing done.  Can I handle it?  Yes.  My aim is to only have this done every 6 weeks.  At 60, my unwanted facial hair is more than a woman needs to have.  It has gotten out of hand.  I had my tubes tied when I was 24 years old.  I know that this messed up my hormones.  I have repented and asked God to forgive my liberated mind that I had in my youth.  I was lost and didn't know it.  I was a misguided woman that thought I needed to have no more babies and having a tubal ligation was the solution.  I was mistaken and warn others to NOT get their tubes tied.  It truly is unnatural and I believe it is not what God wants for His daughters.

At 24, the liberated thing in me was believing a lie.  I believed so many lies.  That having my tubes tied would allow me to be a spontaneous LOVER with my Husband.  The truth was that my Husband and I did not get along all the time, and I thought if I got divorced that I didn't need anymore children.  I might have gone the way of the world and had recreational sex because that is another worldly lie and I believe that I would have continued to not seek God's counsel.  I believe that I would have thought I knew best about everything.  There are consequences to our actions that come from a misguided thought life.  If you separate yourself from God, you will have pain.  Much pain.  He knows what is best for us and if we ignore His wise counsel, we will hurt ourselves and others.  

I never asked God's advice as to what to do about the number of children I should have.  I didn't seek His counsel or advice.  I regret this decision.  I truly do.

I want God's help with making decisions and so I must seek Him out in this department called LIFE. 

The warm wax is therapeutic.  Like the calm before a storm.  Exhale as the linen cloth rips out unwanted hair.  Unwanted.

I've shaved, I've waxed, I've plucked, I've tried electrolysis and cremes.  Haven't tried lazer.  Concerned about scaring.  I am sure that there are more ways to remove unwanted hair that I don't know about.  For now, I will do my best to stick with the waxing process to see if the facial hair slows in growing and I will not have to suffer through this process so much of the time. 

Depending on who you talk to will determine which technique they suggest.  Including medical doctors.  I've asked and asked and asked.  One says to pluck, one says to shave, one says take hormones, one says use this creme, one says once the hair follicle is stimulated hair grows....my beautician said no more shaving.  Her recommendation is waxing.  Oh Lord....please let this work.
  

Every one of us goes through things.  I am not alone when it comes to trials and tribulations.  Not alone.  My earthly body has a heavenly spirit.  Hairy as I may be, God loves me.  I've made some ridiculous mistakes in my life, still I believe that the Lord will help me get through when I repent and humbly ask for His HELP and guidance.

May I not forget, I am a child of the most high God because Jesus, the Son of God, is my personal Saviour.  
Amen,
d



MATTHEW 24:12
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

JAMES 1:21
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.