I haven’t had time to post anything endometriosis related to round out what I wished would be coming into the end of an exciting Endometriosis Awareness Month. Even my Tweets, what limited quantity they have been, have not focused on endo. No, I’ve been entrenched in the world of blood clot and pulmonary thrombolytics; of [...]
Archive for March, 2009
23 Mar
Jeanne’s Endo Blog New Post – Hysterectomy Story
If you’ve come across my blog and are contemplating a hysterectomy to help ease the pain of your endometriosis, I urge you to please check out Jeanne’s Endo Blog. She has a guest blogger who has posted her story today about her 20+ year experience of what it’s like post hysterectomy. If you’re sitting there [...]
23 Mar
Adventures in the Land of CPAP & Pain, Pain Go Away Don’t Come Back Another Day!
In which I speak about my adventure at the sleep lab last night with the CPAP machine, and then about how my glorious morning was rudely taken from me by Ms. Left Ovary shouting: “Hey, remember me?”
21 Mar
Results are In/ Endo Pain
The results are in for the Target: Meredith Vieira poll. I will not announce them until all the kinks are worked out into a formal Campaign. When this happens, I will make a nice post letting everyone know how we’ll go about this attempt to garner more endometriosis awareness via Meredith Vieira and The Today [...]
17 Mar
Another year older…
HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY!!!!!
(I swiped this from someone’s myspace. So if it’s a copywrited image – they swiped it first.)
I’m another year older today. Do I feel it, yep. Will I act it? Nope.
I tried to add music this post and it wouldn’t let me! Ugh!!
10 Mar
My letter to Noah Kotch @ The Today Show
This morning I was encouraged to write to Noah Kotch, Senior Producer of the The Today Show by Jeanne over at Jeanne’s Endo Blog. This was done, of course, in the hopes that I can appear on that program to spread positive awareness about endometriosis. My letter will follow below. I am asking if any [...]
8 Mar
Endometriosis = Cancer?
The big question a woman may ask her gynecologist after being diagnosed with endometriosis is, “will this turn into cancer?” And if your doctor is like mine, he/she will give a reassuring “no” and smile.
Yet researchers have been saying since 2003 that women who have ovarian endometriosis, as seen in the picture below, and do not [...]
6 Mar
Estrogen: Fuel for the Endometriosis Bonfire
Excess estrogen is literally the fuel that lights the endometriosis fire and makes new implants grow, and keep getting bigger. This is why so many women who undergo a hysterectomy – in the belief that their pain will be abated, suddenly find themselves in agony again shortly after beginning hormone replacement therapy. With hysterectomies, even [...]
