About a year after having our last child my body's system never went back to its original working condition. It started to draw a red flag because after having our previous two daughters my body's system's went back to working order within a couple of months. After months of odd and excruciating pains, feeling overly fatigued, menstrual cycles no longer predictable, developing anxiety, along with mood swings I finally made my way in to my Doctor. Or maybe it was the fact that one morning I literally thought I was in labor, even though I had no other signs of being pregnant. At that point I couldn't move or get out of bed.
It was at my first Doctors appointment when it was a possibility that I had a sever case of endometriosis. All the symptoms were there and not going away at all. My own mother has had it. And the typical age to start feeling symptoms is around 25 or your early 20's. Well I was 24 just turning 25, go figure. I ended up having to see more of a specialist that deals with this sort of thing. After the visit with him I felt a deep heart ache knowing that I will have to deal with this for who knows how long. Also the fact that if we wanted a fourth child; you know try for that boy someday, our odds a very slim and having a miscarriage is a possibility. He then stated to tell me a temporarily fix is being pregnant if I were able to get pregnant, ha ha, or having the out patient surgery. We tried different ways of trying to at least control the endometriosis, but they only caused my migraines to worsen.
That's when I choose to watch what I eat and eat as natural as possible. That seems to work for the most part along with exercising. I do notice when I am not doing either one of those my symptoms do worsen. But the symptoms were at least livable and I could put up with them as long as I followed the diet.
Although the diet works It doesn't completely fix it. Endometriosis sometimes affects my sciatic nerve when I'm walking. Last night my abdominal cramps and pains moved into my hips leading to my thighs. I was left on my couch with such excruciating pain and trying everything in God's name to make it go away. I remember telling my husband, " I'm in so much pain in my legs I could probably stab them with a knife and not even feel it!" Not only does endo leave me bed ridden at times, having to take a quick break from walking once in a great while, it makes me sick to my stomach. There are so many ways this disease affects women.
I dislike it and wonder sometimes why God gave it to me. But I also thank God for my blessing in disguise at age 18 soon followed by two more by age 24. If it weren't for my blessing in disguise I probably would have waited even longer to have children. Who knows then if I'd be able to have a baby in that case or the struggles I would have endured. So at the same time I frown at having to put up with endometriosis and yet smile because I was blessed with three beautiful daughters right before I was diagnosed.
