Health schmealth

[ailbhe]

I've had like four ECGs and seen a lot of A&E lately, and today I had an appointment to get my Mirena checked in case it's an infection that's causing my sudden horrendous sweating and pain, and anyway through the diazepam fug she communicated to me that my genitals are really not amusing and that the rectocele is sufficiently exciting that it should be fixed, really, and she's sure it can be.

So.

As far as I can tell the operation has a 6-12 week recovery period but I'll have to make a proper GP appointment to discuss it. And Diazepam is in lactose so I'm really bloody sick again. HOWEVER it would be awesome to have relatively comfortable canals and passages for the first time since I was 24. Not to mention the improved continence. So it's probably best to investigate.

25-35 seems like quite a long time, if it was fixable all along. Swearing and rude words.

And palpitations and chest pain.

Comments

[kalmn]

I hope you feel better soon and I hope the surgery could work out.

[sfred]

Good luck with further investigations.

[serene]

Holy hell. *hughug*

[rmc28]

God, I hope it is fixable, but could someone not have figured this out sooner? (yes I know, swearing, rude words, etc)

6-12 weeks makes me think of c-sections. Which are probably easier to recover from when not trying to manage a newborn too?

[jexia]

I'm sorry. I hope they can help, soon.

[batswing.livejournal.com]

I really really hope they can I,prove things but yes, much swearing.

[nakedfaery.livejournal.com]

10 years...they left you 10 years when it could be fixable. I can only imagine you must have some pretty strong feelings about that.

I hope they help you, quickly. And I hope you feel much better soon. xxx

[baratron.livejournal.com]

To give 'them' some credit, 10 years is a long time in medicine. Maybe it wasn't fixable then. Maybe there are new techniques and it's only now that enough surgeons are trained in them for the service to be offered?

Or maybe 'they' just didn't care enough about womens' health back then. Who knows. I prefer the positive thoughts though.

"...it should be fixed, really, and she's sure it can be"

[feetnotes.livejournal.com]

oh good grief yes, and yes, and yes - a thousand times over!

(i still have various ah, problems from when i was vegetablised, including being "emotionally labile" (lovely phrase, that); but i'm as sure as i can possibly be, this reaction is proportionate and reasonable too, for what that matters. get them started on getting you back to fully-functioning ailbhehood in all ways they can, and an end to having to regard pain as a normal part of everday life, rather than the occasional warning to stop and look, see what's happening/just happened to cause it.)