Painful icky girly stuff.
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vaginapaginaTomorrow is the five week mark for my IUD. Has it already been that long?
Tomorrow is the five and a half week of me bleeding. Fucking hell.
Three times now, the flow has stopped. Clean undies, no discharge. I'm feeling good, then ::whammy!:: it comes back.
Luckily it's not so much that I can't sleep nude, I just need to wear some protection during the day. And I've tried my Mooncup a couple of times. Sometimes it feels awesome, and sometimes- like last week-I was having some major cramping from it all day. I wore it for a full day at work (about 6:30 am to 4:30 pm) and all day I was having painful vaginal cramps, lower back pain/cramps, and uterine cramps. It bloody well hurt.
And, for the last few days, I've have been having that hot sickly feeling at the front of my stomach, by my pelvic bone (where I usually get the hot sickly feeling of period-ness) but this is bladderness. Every fucking half hour. And I feel like I'm going to pee myself. I get in there, sit down, and it's a few drops, maybe a stream for a few seconds. It's not anything near what it feels like, at any rate. It's not an infection. There's no pain, no burning, no "wrong" discharge. I just gotta pee lots.
But my main concern, at the moment, is the constant cramping. It's probably the IUD, but all these cramps started before I got the IUD inserted. And they were verging on painful. I never ever ever got period pains before I started birth control about 3 years ago. Never ever in my life. (And I've been menstruating since I was eight bloody years old!) I got vaginal cramps (painful, debilitating, but thankfully they never lasted more than a couple of minutes, and were weeks/months between) and I got severe, fetal-position-causing lower back pain, which now I think could have been related.
Now, I am getting the vaginal cramping more often. Much more often. Maybe a couple times a week now, when before it would be a couple months apart. And the lower back pain, almost constant. Not crippling like it sometimes was, but still really annoying. The uterine cramping isn't so bad. I feel twinges from time to time, but it's not nearly as bad as the vaginal and back pain.
It's not an infection. I've only been with my husband, and I was tested for infections early this year so the NHS could put it on their records. It can't be a yeast infection or a UTI because it doesn't match their M.O.'s.
I think my body is whaling on me for abusing it with hormones and now an IUD. But it would be so much worse to get pregnant. Gods, I could use being sterilized right now.
I should be going to get my IUD check-up next week. I'll ask the doctor then what it could be. Vaganismus might be the problem, but why would I get painful vaginal cramps when I'm not having sex? (And I got them long before I ever started having sex, before I ever even started masturbating). Same with the lower back pain. Endo? I don't know enough about it, nor do I want to start myself panic attacking over something I may not have.
Le sigh. My body hates me.
Tomorrow is the five and a half week of me bleeding. Fucking hell.
Three times now, the flow has stopped. Clean undies, no discharge. I'm feeling good, then ::whammy!:: it comes back.
Luckily it's not so much that I can't sleep nude, I just need to wear some protection during the day. And I've tried my Mooncup a couple of times. Sometimes it feels awesome, and sometimes- like last week-I was having some major cramping from it all day. I wore it for a full day at work (about 6:30 am to 4:30 pm) and all day I was having painful vaginal cramps, lower back pain/cramps, and uterine cramps. It bloody well hurt.
And, for the last few days, I've have been having that hot sickly feeling at the front of my stomach, by my pelvic bone (where I usually get the hot sickly feeling of period-ness) but this is bladderness. Every fucking half hour. And I feel like I'm going to pee myself. I get in there, sit down, and it's a few drops, maybe a stream for a few seconds. It's not anything near what it feels like, at any rate. It's not an infection. There's no pain, no burning, no "wrong" discharge. I just gotta pee lots.
But my main concern, at the moment, is the constant cramping. It's probably the IUD, but all these cramps started before I got the IUD inserted. And they were verging on painful. I never ever ever got period pains before I started birth control about 3 years ago. Never ever in my life. (And I've been menstruating since I was eight bloody years old!) I got vaginal cramps (painful, debilitating, but thankfully they never lasted more than a couple of minutes, and were weeks/months between) and I got severe, fetal-position-causing lower back pain, which now I think could have been related.
Now, I am getting the vaginal cramping more often. Much more often. Maybe a couple times a week now, when before it would be a couple months apart. And the lower back pain, almost constant. Not crippling like it sometimes was, but still really annoying. The uterine cramping isn't so bad. I feel twinges from time to time, but it's not nearly as bad as the vaginal and back pain.
It's not an infection. I've only been with my husband, and I was tested for infections early this year so the NHS could put it on their records. It can't be a yeast infection or a UTI because it doesn't match their M.O.'s.
I think my body is whaling on me for abusing it with hormones and now an IUD. But it would be so much worse to get pregnant. Gods, I could use being sterilized right now.
I should be going to get my IUD check-up next week. I'll ask the doctor then what it could be. Vaganismus might be the problem, but why would I get painful vaginal cramps when I'm not having sex? (And I got them long before I ever started having sex, before I ever even started masturbating). Same with the lower back pain. Endo? I don't know enough about it, nor do I want to start myself panic attacking over something I may not have.
Le sigh. My body hates me.
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Date: 2003-10-10 05:45 am (UTC)I'm like you, the cramps got extensivly worse with age, doctors thought I just another crazy woman with pain, then the pain with sex and after orgasam started, its not fun at all. Like you I mask/ed it from my fiance, sometimes I just have to turn him away.
It took me 4yrs of complaing, and in the past 1yr and a half it became progrssivly worse, with 2 misdiagnosed pelvic infections (while I was not sexually active, and they are virtually impossible to get without sexual intercourse, but I was ignored and thought to be lying.....*grr*) and many different blood tests and hormone treatments thrown at me, I finnaly got someone to listen to me, and he put me onto a gyno at the hospital..who virtually told me they have no idea, so I saw someone else, and FINNALY got diagnosed. I'm only 20yrs old, and this has caused so many horrible problems with me, physically and mentally, sometimes I wonder why my fiance puts up with me.
oops, long post, you can contact me at lintonbrat@hotmail if you want to talk more :). But just to reasure your not paranoid, painful sex isnt normal, bad cramps arnt normal and heavy bleeding for 5 weeks is harmful. Don't let anyone ever make you belive that this is just in your mind.