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,
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