Diary of a Woman with Endometriosis

Endometriosis is a mysterious condition that commonly occurs in ovaries, it has no known causes, yet affects many women out there. Before its diagnosis, one could suffer terrible mentral cramps, after its diagnosis, terrible mood swings. This is my account of how endometriosis has affected MY life and how it is continuing to affect ME and those around me. How it has shaped my life and I hope to bring about the awareness of this condition as it affects more women out there then we know it.

Friday, March 30, 2007

losing sight

after 6 months of jab, there was a brief period of time when I actually felt that I have long-sightedness!!

I could not see the contents of a receipt close up like I used to, I had to put the receipt further away (about an arm's length) to see it clearly!!

good thing it did not last for long.

strange how much impact one tiny hormone can cause in our body.

can you imagine the damage/effects the other substances can do to our body??

imagine the FOOD that we take in!!

scary and yet fascinating!

Monday, March 26, 2007

Outrage, Waterfall, Ultra SWING

woah, this weekend was scary, the swing of mood that was beyond my control was at full blown sia!

i got really agitated with a friend who took his GP brother's words for no cure for his eardrums condition and left things as it is for a month (which was not very long) but I dunno why i was so impatient with him. I guess historically, with this chap, there's always being alot of miscommunications. So it gets really tough to talk him around, that frustrates me even more haha

then i had a mega crying session, like for 1hr. over nothing really serious.

And I blew up during a discussion with fellow friends... over some organisational issues.

sian liao lor

Sunday, March 11, 2007

Calm seas and rocky shores

I was expecting things to get rocky much earlier after my last jab. But things were calm and except for lots of hot flushes, everything was cool.

These last few days has been terribly RocKY!

It started with me having a re-newed drive towards my project and I was pushing real hard how to complete different segments of it as quickly as I can within the week so that I can use my weekends more fruitfully.

On tues, I had night class, so I had to stay back "extra-time" which was really bad because there was not dinner until 10pm. Came back home to a medium RaRe steak was great but not exactly my kinda of dinner after a long day, I would have preferred a medium-well.

Wednesday was a terribly hectic day and I was stuck with some work which i could not complete, my best bet was to bring it home for my hubby to help me with it. With no lunch, I got home around 620pm, I took a nap, by 8pm when I woke up, I was already having a fever, flu, stomach upset. I felt naseous through the night but had to help hubby with the work, I struggled on till 11pm and couldn't not last anymore.... I went to bed thinking that I can sleep it off.

As I lay on my bed, the feeling of vomitting kept coming back, so finally I vomitted, everything in the last few hours came out, mostly just liquids. It felt so much better but also more sick.

Next day, I went into the lab after lunch to finish the work that I had started, and brought home more work for hubby haha (nope he wasnt very inpressed with his "homework")

I continued to work and feel sick. It was through alot of mental struggle to keep focus on work and nothing else. Dun think about the flu or the discomfort dun let the bug get to me.

I was relieved that Friday came and it meant a weekend of rest. However I didn't need the rest much, I could stay up to watch movies and dramas cool.

Sat I got up bright and early went out for breakfast and spent a day out... that's when I start cracking up. I was incontrollably happy! I was cracking jokes on hubby, teasing him with senseless stuff which I know is terribly horrendous. I kept asking him what was wrong with me and he remained silent haha

Thereafter, I was extremely sensitive to the most minute stuff. An sms, a call, a comment I just snapped! I was simply terrible! I kept snapping at my own hubby.

pray that it'll end soon man!