I’m so angry.
I went to the chiropractor wednesday and we discussed my chronic lower left abdominal pain and how no one seems worried about it. He tried some pressure point therapy to the spot where I was having the cramps and dude, worst mistake of my life. I was in so much pain afterwards, nausea, literally shitting my brains out for 3 hours after, *which he did warn me about*.
Thursday comes and I have a 12 hour shift and I'm still in pain, like all day. And similar to gas pain but it wasnt. It was my lower left, radiating across the lower middle and up the middle. Thursday night was the worse, so friday I called out sick and went to urgent care, went over the chiropractor appointment then for the hell of it told them my ongoing issue with the same spot that my doctors aren't doing anything about.
So they palpate my abdomen, everywhere hurts and they're just like yeah I'm just going to send you to the ER for an emergency CT scan because abdominal pain is so vague and it could be a number of things and told me to tell them about my history, so I'm like ok.
I get to the ER, the nurse is taking my vitals and I'm going over everything I told urgent care and she was super nice. Then I get called in, the doctor eventually comes over and does her exam and we talk about my history again and she asked about endo and all that, she was like appalled my doctors havent done anything, , like *ME TOO??* and was like I could do a CT scan or ultrasound, said why either was better, we went with CT scan with contrast, which btw *not a fun feeling*.
Eventually get the results, I have *two* things going on. I have pelvic congestion syndrome which explains *EVERYTHING*, the bloating, the cramping, the abnormal bleeding. And I have thickening of my small and large bowel walls, so I have to get a colonoscopy too.
A few months back I had the worse appointment of my life with the surgeon at my GYNOB for a consultation. She did not listen to me whatsoever, kept cutting me off. I’m trying to get a hysterectomy because the pain has just been so bad and consistent. I’ve always had bad periods.
I stopped the depo I was on for 13+ years because it clashed with one of my oral medication, and miraculously my migraines stopped at that time. So I’m trying to explain to her the location of the cramps and I get “well there’s a lot of nerves in that area”. Then tried to discuss options for pain or some sort of management, we talk about tube tying, and putting me back on hormonal b/c for pain and I tell her about my migraines, and I get “well were you diagnosed by a neurologist for these?” Nope. And she says, “ok we’ll call them headaches then” like hello??, whatever. I’m not going to argue.
And I pretty much got “well what’s worse the headaches or the cramping”
Also having urinary issues along with all this, get referred to urologist, AUS and UA is normal.
So I find out I have pelvic congestion syndrome and all I can think of is the surgeon asking “headaches or cramps”. Like fuck you dude. I know I’m not crazy.