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I am in Shock!!!!Really long, sorry.
by Jody
I have been reading up on PTS for the past week and can not believe what I have been reading.
I am 36 years old. I had one child when I was 23 years old in Dec of 1990. After I went for my post partum checkup I received a notice in the mail that I had Phase 3 Cervical Cancer and had cryotherapy done to my cervix. This was an alarming experience to say the least. Two days after the procedure, I woke up in the morning in a pool of blood. The bleeding would stop and start at any given time and I was told this was normal. This went on for several months. I was told that due to the trauma my cervix received that I would automatically be considered high risk if I were to get pregnant again and that bed rest would be the only option to carry to full term. I could not take birth control pills, was afraid of the IUD and did not want to put my self at risk of bledding to death or miscarrying should something go wrong.
In May of 1995 I opted to have a tubal ligation.
I was told there were basically no ill side effects from having the surgery done. None! I had the surgery and things were fine until a week or so after my post-op visit. I had a pain in my left side that was worse than any labor pains I had with my daughter. I went back to the doctor to be told there was nothing wrong, it was just an ovulation pain, funny I never had them before the TL. My periods changed stright from the get go, he advised me to take bcp because my ovaries were over functioning and producing too many hormones, again, I had to tell him I could not take bcp so I continued to suffer. I stayed in pain, my periods were so bad that the first couple days I didn't even want to leave the house because of flooding, I didn't want anyone to touch me, by bowels stayed in an uproar, constipated at one time of the day, diahrea a different time of day. I kept going back. Finally 3 months later he agreed to go back in and take a look. He found that on the left tube there was dead tissue trying to mingle and coexist with dead tissue where the ring was put on, I had an infection so he wound up clipping part of the tube out and went ahead and did the same on the right side. Well this is when my hell started!
My periods would last anywhere from 5 - 10 days with heavy bleeding, cramping, IBS symptoms, my weight went up and down and was miserable. My Bladder seemed affected, and my pelvic floor muscles just seemed to go. I had never had any problems with sex and that all changed too, it hurt, I could not have orgasms anymore from internal stimulation and my vaginal tightness slowly but surely became non-existent. I started having infections, bacterial infections and the like.
In 2001 I had thermal ablation done with the balloon procedure to cut down the heavy bleeding. I thought I could deal with the rest of my symptoms if that at least got better which it did, my ovary pain as I call it subsided for several months, my periods only lasting 3-4 days and very light could be tolerated. I still dealt with the rest though and made the best of it.
In Nov of last year the week before my period I started feeling really crappy in general. The day before I started I could hardly get out of the bed and wound up in the ER due to the most horrific pain I have ever experienced. First they asked if I was pregnant, than thought maybe it was appendicitis as I was running a low fever and my white blood cell count was high, then they diagnosed me with kidney stones. I never passed the stone. Every month since then I have had the same thing happen, horrific pain, yucky feeling, temperature, nausea, vomiting and violent headaches. In May I went to a urologist, x-ray showed something in the pelvic cavity, he assumed a stone was getting ready to pass and said if it didn't it had to be something GYN related. I have found a new GYN, went for a transvaginal ultrasound this week and am waiting for the results. She has insinuated it is something with my ovaries and wants me to take a low dose ovary suppressing bcp. I am not taking them, what do I have to do for these doctors to understand I can not take them, they make me sick. I have hot flashes already too and never really thought about those until recently my boyfriend of the past 3 years made the comment how hot my body was when I was sleeping that through the sheets and our pajamas he could feel the heat, then I go through cold spells.....
If you have read all this now GOD BLESS. I am just at my wits ends and am tired of being told there is nothing wrong, etc. etc. etc.
Any advice, suggestions or feedback of where I can turn who I can talk to would be greatly appreciated.....
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