02/11/2023
Women, it is not normal to suffer with your monthly cycle, post-birthing body, and through menopause. These are natural processes we should be nurtured through not expected to suffer through.
For 6 years after labor and a C-section, the inside of my va**na felt like someone putting a hot sweaty hand on a freshly skinned knee, symptoms during the second half of my period were practically unbearable. My GP (female) said "sounds like symptoms of ovulation" and "I don't know why your va**na feels that way. Are you still in a stressful relationship with your husband?" and then sent me on my way.
But this was not normal for me, my periods used to sneak up on me with no symptoms of significance at all and the marriage was abusive before the C-section and my va**na was fine.
NO, IT IS NOT normal to be incapacitated by your menstrual cycle.
A gastroenterologist that I saw thinking there was something wrong with my organs 'cause now I was having to manually move f***s through the small intestine-large intestine junction every morning, he wrote me a prescription for metamucil without asking about my diet and sent me on my way. No concern for the fact I had to move p**p through an apparently constricted or malfunctioning shoot?
A third doctor I saw, this time an internist (female) because the abdominal pain was growing and encompassed the whole right side of my abdomen now and there was a big knot deep in my belly, next to my spine (and my va**na still felt like a skinned-knee). She said "Your blood doesn't show any cancer markers" and "I don't know what that lump is deep in your belly but you have to push quite deeply to contact it" and "well, IF YOU find the therapy that you think you need, I'll write a prescription for it". I have to discern the treatment I need, I have to find it? At this time I was becoming aware of pelvic floor dysfunction and was self-diagnosing.
Long story short with no help from medical establishment, I realized this was going to be a lesson in DIY self care I spent hours, literally at least 2 if not 3, of self care every single day, manual therapy, foam rolling, infrared light therapy, acupuncture, cranial sacral therapy etc. , for 3 years and symptoms did improve. But even still, if I over-exert, gain weight, or slack on about an hour of self now, the symptoms start to show up.
The subject of women’s health is one that is oftentimes considered taboo. We see images of half-naked men and women day in and day out (yes, s*x sells), but as soon as we start discussing female reproductive parts in a legitimate medical context people often become uncomfortable, believing topics ...
