Thank you, Mirena. Thank you for NOTHING, so far.

[logansrogue]

Okay, so, things Mirena has done FOR me:

- No period.
- ...
- No really, that's it.


Things Mirena has put me through:

- The three week period of pain and hell
- Various pokey pains at unexpected times that are as bad or worse than endo pain
- Pimples
- Weight gain
- Depression
- Periods of time where I feel I'm constantly PMS-y.
- Always hungry, terribly terribly hungry.

If this shit doesn't improve in the next two months, I am having it out. This is bullshit. I'm putting on WEIGHT, damn it! And I STILL HAVE THE ENDO PAIN. It's bad as, if not worse than before I had the Mirena put in! I'm at my wits end, I really really am! I'm sick of the health department screwing me around and I know that now Liberal has been voted in, it's going to get fucking worse!! (THANK YOU, WA VOTERS, THANKS A FUCKING LOT).

I'm on codeine again. One before bed. I have to go out today and deal with Centrelink. They want me to go on the disability pension, I think. But I'm *not* disabled, I'm just stuck in the Public Health Care Purgatory!

So glad my boyfriend will be there. I'll have big manly muscle-bound cuddles to sooth me after dealing with these fucking assholes.

Comments

[dafwarg.livejournal.com]

You may not be disabled, but in their eyes, disabled is not being able to work. I wouldn't complain, as it means that you wont be forced to look for work to get paid. The less things you have to worry about, the better you'll be :)

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

This is true, but I hear it's horribly difficult to find work after being put on disability. :(

[dafwarg.livejournal.com]

Which would you prefer - struggling now while you're still not well, or struggling later when you are well? :)

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Another good point. Why you gotta be so damned helpful, Froggie?! ;-P

[likebunnies.livejournal.com]

Last week, I had an appointment with the only gynecologist who ever helped me with my endometriosis. I last saw him when I was 18 or 19 so it's been twenty years but I need help. I've suffered for 25 years now and I've had enough. I told him I didn't want to hear 'have another baby' because that isn't happening. I wanted real solutions. The good thing is that since I already have my kid, a hysterectomy is an option. Yet, I'm still kind of torn about the whole thing because that is so very final. His other option was shots of Lupron. I figured if I did that, I'd be hot, miserable and probably gain fifty more pounds.

I wish there was an easy solution to this problem we share! Know I'm thinking about you. *hugs*

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

The human body is a total mystery, I think. We know some things but there's so much that we don't know. A lot of it's guesswork sometimes, I reckon.

Thank you for the support, you know it's reciprocated! I'm just glad I have an understanding boyfriend! Didn't think they made those anymore, but I found one!

God, I sound like an ad for a pharmaceutical company...

[mawaridi.livejournal.com]

Well really, although I don't like the term "disabled" because it reduces people who have a disability to being seen as their disability, you do have a disability. Being in constant pain to the point where you are often unable to function and are not able to work is disabling, by definition.

What you're going through sounds truly awful, and I certainly think you've given the Mirena long enough to justify giving up on it if it is still making you this miserable. Yuck.

Your endo is a lot more severe than mine, I think, but has your doctor ever suggested a medication called Primolut N? I am on that now to stop my periods completely, because that gets rid of most of my pain. I haven't really had any negative side-effects, which is the really significant bit (I have really bad depressive reactions to most of the BCPs I've been on, and I get pretty severe depressive PMS when I allow my body to menstruate, too). It's not technically a BCP, it's a treatment specifically for endo and other "menstrual disorders". Supposedly it slows the growth/regrowth of endo, although it didn't have that effect on me (after a year on this pill I had to have a second lap) but the appeal for me was really not having a period.

If you experience pain outside of your period, I don't know what effect it would have on that, but no PMS pain or menstrual pain is a step in the right direction, right?

The best part is that it's a daily pill, so if it doesn't work or you react badly it's really easy to stop!