A Diagnosis

[perzephone]

Finally, after some 23 years of endless poking, prodding and medications, I have an official diagnosis.

I have PCOS. I am going to start pushing my gynecologist for a hysterectomy!

Comments

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Thank goodness for a decent diagnosis!! Do you want to wait to see if the ablation and hormonal replacement therapy or something helps out first? There are a lot of treatment options for PCOS, and it could be that yours has been so awful for so long not because you need your uterus to come out (though you may, definitely), but because they just haven't given you any decent treatment plans?

Time to Go!

[perzephone.livejournal.com]

I honestly have no attachment to my ovaries whatsoever. I've hated 'em my entire menstruating life. When I say I've considered a sex change, I'm not joking. I just like having a pussy quite a bit - and my boobs. Love mah boobs :D

Chances are, the first route of treatment would be to put me back on birth control. Over the last 20-some odd years I've had to go on stronger & stronger versions of the Pill to control my cycle - the last ones had a very high androgen factor, which meant male pattern baldness. Yeah. Bad enough I've gone grey, but male pattern baldness on top of that? No, don't think so.

Along w/the Pill they're most likely going to stick me on Metformin, which is for diabetes & has the side-effect of helping w/PCOS symptoms. Yay, two more pills. And then, because most likely the Pill will make me lose hair again, I could end up on Propecia or something. So that's 3 pills. For the next... what, 20 or 30 years? Until I hit menopause?

And when I hit menopause, there's no guarantee that the symptoms would be alleviated. So I can spend the rest of my life spending gobs of money on the Pill, insulin, and hair-loss remedies - and continuing to spend money on acne medications, orrrr...

I could have one $5000 surgery to pull everything out, wait til the estrogen stored in my fat runs out & then go on hormone replacement until my early menopause is finished. And maybe have to buy a lube every now & again if I dry up. And I could be free of the tyranny of the feminine hygiene and gynecological industries once & for all.

You can probably tell I don't think about this stuff much at all, do I?

Re: Time to Go!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

It's awesome that you have thought about it so much! I think then, getting the uterus ditched is a good way to go. If you can keep your ovaries, you may not actually need HRT at all, but either way there are options. :D

As for the lube. I have to use that 24/7 anyway, even with a uterus and ovaries. Because of... I dunno, scarring? Damage? My immune system? I pretty much never make with the lube myself. So lube isn't such a bad thing. ;)

Re: Juicy

[perzephone.livejournal.com]

I've kind of been obsessed with my crotch my whole life... it's an unhealthy obsession. I mean, some women only focus on it when they're on the rag or popping something screaming out of it, but for me, it's always been a thorn in my nether region. Of course, if I do hit the hysterectomy lottery, I will no longer be able to disgust Rob by clutching the cleft of my belly & hip & groaning, "Ugggghhhh, my right ovary is killing me!"

Re: Juicy

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

I know Francesca had it done pretty early (a fully hysterectomy, though she kept her ovaries), and she has never ever ever ever regretted it. And her sex drive didn't seem to suffer too much either. I know she didn't have to have hormone replacement because she kept her ovaries but I've also heard that people who have had shitty hormones all their lives actually find things awesome once they have something stabilising like HRT.

Either way, thank god you have a diagnosis which pushes you into getting rid of these organs that have given you so much pain for so long!

[spyral-weaver73.livejournal.com]

OUT WITH THE SCHOOL, ITS ALL PLAYGROUND, BABY!!!!

School's Out!

[perzephone.livejournal.com]

Now that's what I'm talkin' about!