its completely nipplelicious

Well, the title is a bit misleading, I don’t think you should use duct tape on your own body. Although, there are those girls who I have seen wearing duct tape dresses. I had to take myself to the er this morning, as it seems my womans time has decided to take over my body. I won’t go into too many graphic details, it isn’t seemly, but lets see if I can break it gently. You have heard the saying “don’t trust anything that bleeds for seven days and doesn’t die”, right? Well how about “something who bleeds uncontrollably for 72 hours”? That’s me right now.

The er was a bit uncomfortable, the wait not long at all for once. The most difficult part was explaining to the male nurse and doctor my female problem. You get asked questions like, were you raped, have rough intercourse,or injury? I just told them it was Adam’s revenge, lol. There were tests done, problems figured out a bit. Apparently taking ibuprofen at my age, and as many as I was due to the menstrual pains, was doing the opposite job of what ibuprofen is supposed to. Instead of clotting and slowing down the blood, it was thinning and speeding it up. Not a good combination.

So I was given some options, and after I go in to have an internal exam, we will move forward from there. But in the meantime I am to take no ibuprofen or Aleve, cut down on my caffeine and smoking. I need to start eating green veggies and more calcium.  My body right now is severely dehydrated, and on top of being anemic, I am simply losing all my nutrients. So n other words, change my lifestyle a bit.

The other bit of interesting information I received was this: I am to stop almost all use of tampons, as I have the signs of TSS(toxic shock syndrome). Apparently, with everything else that was wrong with my poor body, these symptoms were being masked. This might be the hardest challenge of them all, as I have been using tampons since I was in the eighth grade and cannot stand the feel of pads.

I think the scariest, and yet a bit humorous part, was when they started talking about surgeries. One is to remove the uterus lining completely, the other one to just section off a bit of it. The funny part was when the doctors kept warning me that both surgeries can lead to infertility. I had to remind everyone a few times that I had a tubal ligation a few years ago and unless someone messed up, I didn’t have that ability anyways.

So for now, I am going to follow their advice, and cut back the bad, and start eating the good. It will be a challenge for me, I don’t like many vegetables, and I really love my coffee.Then again, I love to  live also, and I kind of like the body I do have, so it would be nice to keep my pieces and parts.

The one thing I would like to pass on to other women is this: Yes, as we get older, our bodies change. But please don’t ignore the signs of something more serious. I have been getting worse for almost six months, and it took me till now to get it looked at.  It’s not always a good thing to wait and see.

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