But now I am being slowly reintroduced back into work. This is a slow process as I have been through so much. I am on a 10 hour week this week (2 hours a day), 20 hours next week on light duties after a review I then go onto 20 then 30 hours on normal duties before going back to normal hours and normal duties. I have a follow up appointment with the surgeon on Monday 13th May and then and appointment with my gynaecologist on Monday 21st May.
Afterthoughts of my time in hospital 2013
28 days sick
21 days in hospital
25 days not eating
69 days off work
4 weeks (maybe requiring longer) until I am back properly at work.
That is a breakdown of the past 2 ½ months. I am still not completely better I still have to take it easy and if I overdo it I suffer the following day or even that evening.
Today was my first day back at work. It was only 2 hours but that was enough for me I am sore and shattered now but it feels good to get back to work. To actually have something to wake up for.
I never realised how ill I was and do not think I will ever understand how sick I was. I had a clue on how bad I was on the day I was discharged. A woman came in and she looked really ill as she came back from the look she went light headed and collapsed one of the nurses helped her. It made me think I must have looked similar to her when I almost collapsed and had 2 nurses support me. That made me really think as she looked like crap.
I am so lucky all the nurses on the ward were so good. I will not and cannot knock Frimley Park Hospital or that ward. Not everyone is lucky enough to live or have access to such a good hospital.
When I was in hospital I got very tearful over the smallest of things. I am not normally like this one of the nurses said that when you are in hospital for such a long time it can do that. She said that she had seen full grown men break down because they are in hospital. When I was told this I had been in for only 2 weeks. I had not seen myself as being in there for a long time at this point. Even though I knew 2 weeks to me was a long time I thought in the grand scheme of things it was not but when she said that it made me think maybe I have been in for a long time. I guess it also did not seem a long time because during the first week I was so doped up and ill.
When I was in B bay one morning a woman in C bay had a crash call. I laying there listening to all the commotion of the nurses and doctors rushing to the crash call thinking how lucky I was, even after everything I have been through at least my endometriosis is not terminal and will not kill me. And although it does affect me at least I can get on and enjoy my life most of the time.
After my laparoscopy I was advised to get pregnant in 6 months or I will probably need help. We will see what my gynaecologist has to say on the matter at my appointment. Back at my appointment on 11th February (that seems so long ago now) I was told I may need help to conceive.
I have come to accept that endometriosis is not just a thing that flares up to annoy me now and then. It is actually a condition. But I will not allow it to ruin my life although it does affect it. I just wish there was more information and awareness about endometriosis so people do not suffer in silence and think that the pain they are experiencing is normal like I did for many years.
I have now gained a bit of weight (now 7.06 stone) I understand that this as well as getting my strength and energy will take some time but I know that I will get there eventually. I feel that endometriosis had made me who I am today. It has made me mentally strong and I am adamant that I will not let it ruin my life.
I am lucky to have such a supportive network of friends and family. I did not tell a lot of people I was sick as I did not want the fuss. But those that did know I was in hospital were and still are very supportive. Some visited me in and out off hospital, others took me out places when I could not drive, and others sent me cards/flowers/text/messages. But all helped me whatever they done. I am also lucky on how supportive my work have been as I have had so much time off sick over the past year. They have not got fed up with me but stood by me. Instead of putting me on half pay they kept me on an extra month of full pay before I went onto SSP (Statutory Sick Pay). This is not something that they had to do and I was touched that they had done this, not everyone could say this about their work place.
The rest of this book will be filled in as and when my endometriosis shows up in my life. I had my first period after all this on 8th April it was sore but I was able to control the pain by using deep heat treatment and Diclofenac. It lasted only 4 days. I now bleed a little and got sore around ovulation. My bowel movements seem to have finally settled down but occasionally I still get times where I am either constipated or going a lot but I am sure that it will settle down eventually. When my bowels first started working again after the laparotomy I had really smelly farts this lasted for 2 days, I remember asking the nurses for an air freshener, which they gave to me.
I met so many nice people in the hospital both patients and staff. On the ward that I was in everyone would support each other with encouragement. This was a God send and helped a lot on bad days.
I shall also write up about how my follow up appointments go and as I said at the beginning of this book I am sure this is not the end.
Along with the 30 staples I had a count up of the marks from blood tests, cannulas and injections I was given. I had 21 marks however this does not include where the needles were put in in the same places, ones that had already healed up, the blood thinning injections, ones that were in my side, or the 6 hourly blood sugar tests.
Just to show the amount of times that I have been in A&E the gynaecologist that discharged me said that she recognised me. I said that I had been in with a cyst and in 2009 for a laparoscopy and had been in for a long time after my laparotomy. She then asked if I had been in A&E and that I had endometriosis. She knew my history before reading it and for an A&E doctor to recognise you after all they get so many people coming in every day.
To strengthen my stomach muscles I have restarted yoga. I had to stop it because of the pain when I stretched as well as my indoor rock climbing. Unfortunately I think it will be some time before I can go rock climbing again. But at least I can do light yoga at the moment. And when I can cycle again I will get back on my bike, me and my sister often go for a bike ride at the weekends. But my main aim at the moment is to get back to full time work without getting tired or so.
Today is day 3 of being back at work at 2 hours a day on light duties and I am so tired. I slept until 9.30am this morning which is a big lay in for me. It could have been longer but the gardener was mowing the lawn outside our bedroom window. I filled up 6 water jugs today and could feel my muscles pulling. I just cannot wait to be back to normal again.
I guess we are lucky that we live in a flat because when I came home I did not have to worry about going up and down stairs once I had got into the flat. We are an upstairs flat.
My first week back at work was very tiring my shifts worked out that I would do 7 days in a row, this was very hard considering I had not been at work for so long. My first 5 shifts were 2 hours long on light duties. I was so tired after this that instead of doing the 20 hours light duties that we had said I would do I could only do 16 hours, 4 days of 4 hours. Next week I am due to start 20 hours of normal duties. I am unsure how I am going to cope with this I will give it a go but will not use the dishwasher as I have a feeling that pulling it down will be over doing it.
Everyone at work have all been very nice and helpful. They all ask how I am doing and some have shown an interest in what was actually wrong. Everyone knew that I had had 2 emergency operations and was very ill but not everyone knew the reason why. If they ask I am more than happy to talk to them about it after all the more people that know about endometriosis the better. But when I say what endometriosis is some people just go oh right, and feel a bit embarrassed when they realise that it is to do with “woman’s problems”. But that is the problem no one will talk about it and that is why people do not know about endometriosis.
Not long now until my first post-op follow up appointment with the surgeon. I cannot wait to hear what he has to say. But the main appointment that I am looking forward to is the appointment with my gynaecologist. Why can this one not be the first appointment?
I have found I have had to cut down on the amount of egg that I eat as when I have a lot of things with egg in I find it binds me up and I feel it all moving in my bowel. I hope this is just going to be whilst I am healing.
I had my day 21 progesterone blood test yesterday. My gynaecologist requested this back on 11th February to see if I was ovulating. I hope the results come back ok, I really do. Please come back ok.
I weighed myself this morning 7 weeks 5 days after I was discharged from hospital. I have gone from 7.02 stone to 7.11 stone. I am so happy I am almost back to my normal weight of 8 stone. I also have my figure back now, no longer can you see my ribs protruding. My boobs almost fit my bras again. My legs are starting to look better now as well, they are still skinny but look like they belong to a skinny person and not a prisoner of war. My arms and hand still look skinny, bony fingers and no muscle but I am sure it will not take long for them to start looking better. But mainly my face has filled out again, good bye protruding cheek bones.
I have just got back from seeing my surgeon. The first thing he said was I looked a lot better than last time he saw me. I told him that I was feeling much better however I am still getting very tired. He told me that this is normal as I had just had 2 emergency operations in about one week and then 10 days in hospital afterwards. He said even with someone having a planned operation like this he would expect them to feel tired like I am for about 3 months and the fact that I have had 2 operations. This does make me feel a bit happier about my tiredness. I told him next week I am meant to be going back full time hours at work but do not feel up to it yet. He said that is ok. He had a look at my scar and a feel of my stomach and made me cough. He was happy with what he felt and saw. Even though I had a slight bit of pain on my right side. He explained what had happened, he said that I had a blockage where my small bowel met my large bowel and this was caused because of my endometriosis had caused my bowl near my rectum to get stuck to my tubes/the rest of the bowel. This had caused the bowel to twist slightly. He said he was very happy with my progress and was impressed that I am having periods so soon. I had had one for 4 days and then 29 days later I had another one for 4 days but still having spotting 5 day on from then. He is also happy that my bowel movements are still going regular. He told me he will not have to see me again unless my gynaecologist thinks I should have that part of bowel removed and then the left over bowel would be reconstructed but all this depends on my endometriosis. I asked how long I would be in if this was the case. He told me that it could be 10 days again but you never know I may or may not have as bad a time as this time round so we will see. He said that they may be able to do it with key whole surgery but again because of my endometriosis being so bad it may be more complicated and I may need a laparotomy again. I replied to him that it would not matter to me now how they done it if it was needed after all I already have a big scar going down my front.
I also asked him if it would be ok if I fell pregnant now. He said it would be no problem with me getting pregnant after the operation as I had healed enough but there was a concern about me having trouble conceiving because of my tubes. Which I knew anyway after my 2009 operation.
On the way home we stopped off at my GP surgery to get my amended hour’s sick note extended for another 3 weeks. I asked if my day 2 progesterone blood results were back. The receptionist said that they were and came back non-ovulatory, not what I wanted to hear. Maybe though it is because of the operation and me being so ill and will settle down. But I am doing home tests and they say that I am ovulating. We will see what my gynaecologist had to say next week. I am starting to dread this appointment as it is going to be mainly about my fertility, or lack off.
This week I am doing 24 hours at work last week and the week before I done 16 hours. It is taking its time but I cannot rush myself. I still cannot use the dishwasher, but feel better about this now that I know that this is normal.
Just picked up my extended sick note to give me 3 more weeks until I go back full time. Just spoken to my supervisor I am down to do 29 hours next week. I hope that it is not going to be too many hours. We will see. 24 seemed a good amount of hours to do this week, making it worth me going in for even though I am so tired.
I have had some bowel cramps and pains in my pelvis today. The cramps came on this afternoon suddenly, feels like the bowel is trying to push something through. I have had a few bowel movements today but they were a bit odd. They were very dark, soft (cow pat texture) and thin. I am feeling constipated got the urge to go but nothing or very little coming out. I have been eating a few nuts and seeds over the pass 3 or so days I am going to give them a break as this is the only different thing I have eaten recently. I may take some lactulose solution as well to help me go. I hope it is not anything and is just either the nuts/seeds or the fact that I could have over done it yesterday when I cleaned the living room (windows, vacuuming, dusting top to bottom). What worries me is that over the past hour my pelvis has been very sore as well, is it coincidence? I am on day 12 of my cycle and due to ovulate any day now, are these feelings because of this? Will get my heat pad out later to see if it eases this and start testing ovulation today. Not that the tests are showing an accurate result as they say I am ovulation as well as my BBT but the “day 21” test said that I am not. But just in case I will continue using them and mention this to my gynaecologist on Monday morning. I have so many questions for him. Maybe I should write them down so I do not forget any. Today is Thursday so only a few more days to go. I am looking forwards to it but am also a little apprehensive about it as well. I just hope I am not over reacting about these feelings in my bowel. But I am also worried about under reacting like I did before. Oh well I am sure it is nothing.
Anyhow roll on Monday, when I can hopefully get some answers. Questions I must ask:-
Well the lactulose worked I felt much better after that. My ovulation test came back negative. But the following day it said it was positive. I forgot to test last night but I normally get 2 positive days before my BBT shoots up. Fingers crossed that I am actually ovulating. I gave up the nuts for a few days to see if that was affecting my bowel but after taking the lactulose I felt so much better. But after 12 hours I started to feel bad again and by 24 hours I started to feel constipated again even today I am not feeling right and when I go it is still small amounts. So I do not think it is the nuts and seeds. For the past 3 days after or near the end of the shift I have been getting a burning stabbing pain to the right side of my abdomen it lasts for a few hours before it starts to ease. Another thing to mention tomorrow.
Well I have just got back from seeing my gynaecologist, it went ok I guess. He managed to try a smear test and was successful to get enough cells. But there was some blood so this could affect the result. He said that my cervix was high and far back, which is what I knew anyway. The smear test was still very painful but I managed to tolerate it this time. He told me that my blood tests from February came back perfect which is good. The day 21 came back inconclusive not non –ovulatory which could be that I was slightly late in getting the blood done so I am going to have to get that re-done. He told me I am now a high risk surgery patient if I am to have abdominal surgery again. They do not want to operate on my stomach if they can avoid it because it is always possible that I could have a reoccurrence as everything is stuck to everything else. I feel that this is not so good as if my endometriosis flares up again they are going to have to operate again are they not? My endometriosis is definitely now classed as severe. On top of my “day 21” progesterone appointment I am also to have a HyCoSy examination.
Afterthoughts of my time in hospital 2013
28 days sick
21 days in hospital
25 days not eating
69 days off work
4 weeks (maybe requiring longer) until I am back properly at work.
That is a breakdown of the past 2 ½ months. I am still not completely better I still have to take it easy and if I overdo it I suffer the following day or even that evening.
Today was my first day back at work. It was only 2 hours but that was enough for me I am sore and shattered now but it feels good to get back to work. To actually have something to wake up for.
I never realised how ill I was and do not think I will ever understand how sick I was. I had a clue on how bad I was on the day I was discharged. A woman came in and she looked really ill as she came back from the look she went light headed and collapsed one of the nurses helped her. It made me think I must have looked similar to her when I almost collapsed and had 2 nurses support me. That made me really think as she looked like crap.
I am so lucky all the nurses on the ward were so good. I will not and cannot knock Frimley Park Hospital or that ward. Not everyone is lucky enough to live or have access to such a good hospital.
When I was in hospital I got very tearful over the smallest of things. I am not normally like this one of the nurses said that when you are in hospital for such a long time it can do that. She said that she had seen full grown men break down because they are in hospital. When I was told this I had been in for only 2 weeks. I had not seen myself as being in there for a long time at this point. Even though I knew 2 weeks to me was a long time I thought in the grand scheme of things it was not but when she said that it made me think maybe I have been in for a long time. I guess it also did not seem a long time because during the first week I was so doped up and ill.
When I was in B bay one morning a woman in C bay had a crash call. I laying there listening to all the commotion of the nurses and doctors rushing to the crash call thinking how lucky I was, even after everything I have been through at least my endometriosis is not terminal and will not kill me. And although it does affect me at least I can get on and enjoy my life most of the time.
After my laparoscopy I was advised to get pregnant in 6 months or I will probably need help. We will see what my gynaecologist has to say on the matter at my appointment. Back at my appointment on 11th February (that seems so long ago now) I was told I may need help to conceive.
I have come to accept that endometriosis is not just a thing that flares up to annoy me now and then. It is actually a condition. But I will not allow it to ruin my life although it does affect it. I just wish there was more information and awareness about endometriosis so people do not suffer in silence and think that the pain they are experiencing is normal like I did for many years.
I have now gained a bit of weight (now 7.06 stone) I understand that this as well as getting my strength and energy will take some time but I know that I will get there eventually. I feel that endometriosis had made me who I am today. It has made me mentally strong and I am adamant that I will not let it ruin my life.
I am lucky to have such a supportive network of friends and family. I did not tell a lot of people I was sick as I did not want the fuss. But those that did know I was in hospital were and still are very supportive. Some visited me in and out off hospital, others took me out places when I could not drive, and others sent me cards/flowers/text/messages. But all helped me whatever they done. I am also lucky on how supportive my work have been as I have had so much time off sick over the past year. They have not got fed up with me but stood by me. Instead of putting me on half pay they kept me on an extra month of full pay before I went onto SSP (Statutory Sick Pay). This is not something that they had to do and I was touched that they had done this, not everyone could say this about their work place.
The rest of this book will be filled in as and when my endometriosis shows up in my life. I had my first period after all this on 8th April it was sore but I was able to control the pain by using deep heat treatment and Diclofenac. It lasted only 4 days. I now bleed a little and got sore around ovulation. My bowel movements seem to have finally settled down but occasionally I still get times where I am either constipated or going a lot but I am sure that it will settle down eventually. When my bowels first started working again after the laparotomy I had really smelly farts this lasted for 2 days, I remember asking the nurses for an air freshener, which they gave to me.
I met so many nice people in the hospital both patients and staff. On the ward that I was in everyone would support each other with encouragement. This was a God send and helped a lot on bad days.
I shall also write up about how my follow up appointments go and as I said at the beginning of this book I am sure this is not the end.
Along with the 30 staples I had a count up of the marks from blood tests, cannulas and injections I was given. I had 21 marks however this does not include where the needles were put in in the same places, ones that had already healed up, the blood thinning injections, ones that were in my side, or the 6 hourly blood sugar tests.
Just to show the amount of times that I have been in A&E the gynaecologist that discharged me said that she recognised me. I said that I had been in with a cyst and in 2009 for a laparoscopy and had been in for a long time after my laparotomy. She then asked if I had been in A&E and that I had endometriosis. She knew my history before reading it and for an A&E doctor to recognise you after all they get so many people coming in every day.
To strengthen my stomach muscles I have restarted yoga. I had to stop it because of the pain when I stretched as well as my indoor rock climbing. Unfortunately I think it will be some time before I can go rock climbing again. But at least I can do light yoga at the moment. And when I can cycle again I will get back on my bike, me and my sister often go for a bike ride at the weekends. But my main aim at the moment is to get back to full time work without getting tired or so.
Today is day 3 of being back at work at 2 hours a day on light duties and I am so tired. I slept until 9.30am this morning which is a big lay in for me. It could have been longer but the gardener was mowing the lawn outside our bedroom window. I filled up 6 water jugs today and could feel my muscles pulling. I just cannot wait to be back to normal again.
I guess we are lucky that we live in a flat because when I came home I did not have to worry about going up and down stairs once I had got into the flat. We are an upstairs flat.
My first week back at work was very tiring my shifts worked out that I would do 7 days in a row, this was very hard considering I had not been at work for so long. My first 5 shifts were 2 hours long on light duties. I was so tired after this that instead of doing the 20 hours light duties that we had said I would do I could only do 16 hours, 4 days of 4 hours. Next week I am due to start 20 hours of normal duties. I am unsure how I am going to cope with this I will give it a go but will not use the dishwasher as I have a feeling that pulling it down will be over doing it.
Everyone at work have all been very nice and helpful. They all ask how I am doing and some have shown an interest in what was actually wrong. Everyone knew that I had had 2 emergency operations and was very ill but not everyone knew the reason why. If they ask I am more than happy to talk to them about it after all the more people that know about endometriosis the better. But when I say what endometriosis is some people just go oh right, and feel a bit embarrassed when they realise that it is to do with “woman’s problems”. But that is the problem no one will talk about it and that is why people do not know about endometriosis.
Not long now until my first post-op follow up appointment with the surgeon. I cannot wait to hear what he has to say. But the main appointment that I am looking forward to is the appointment with my gynaecologist. Why can this one not be the first appointment?
I have found I have had to cut down on the amount of egg that I eat as when I have a lot of things with egg in I find it binds me up and I feel it all moving in my bowel. I hope this is just going to be whilst I am healing.
I had my day 21 progesterone blood test yesterday. My gynaecologist requested this back on 11th February to see if I was ovulating. I hope the results come back ok, I really do. Please come back ok.
I weighed myself this morning 7 weeks 5 days after I was discharged from hospital. I have gone from 7.02 stone to 7.11 stone. I am so happy I am almost back to my normal weight of 8 stone. I also have my figure back now, no longer can you see my ribs protruding. My boobs almost fit my bras again. My legs are starting to look better now as well, they are still skinny but look like they belong to a skinny person and not a prisoner of war. My arms and hand still look skinny, bony fingers and no muscle but I am sure it will not take long for them to start looking better. But mainly my face has filled out again, good bye protruding cheek bones.
I have just got back from seeing my surgeon. The first thing he said was I looked a lot better than last time he saw me. I told him that I was feeling much better however I am still getting very tired. He told me that this is normal as I had just had 2 emergency operations in about one week and then 10 days in hospital afterwards. He said even with someone having a planned operation like this he would expect them to feel tired like I am for about 3 months and the fact that I have had 2 operations. This does make me feel a bit happier about my tiredness. I told him next week I am meant to be going back full time hours at work but do not feel up to it yet. He said that is ok. He had a look at my scar and a feel of my stomach and made me cough. He was happy with what he felt and saw. Even though I had a slight bit of pain on my right side. He explained what had happened, he said that I had a blockage where my small bowel met my large bowel and this was caused because of my endometriosis had caused my bowl near my rectum to get stuck to my tubes/the rest of the bowel. This had caused the bowel to twist slightly. He said he was very happy with my progress and was impressed that I am having periods so soon. I had had one for 4 days and then 29 days later I had another one for 4 days but still having spotting 5 day on from then. He is also happy that my bowel movements are still going regular. He told me he will not have to see me again unless my gynaecologist thinks I should have that part of bowel removed and then the left over bowel would be reconstructed but all this depends on my endometriosis. I asked how long I would be in if this was the case. He told me that it could be 10 days again but you never know I may or may not have as bad a time as this time round so we will see. He said that they may be able to do it with key whole surgery but again because of my endometriosis being so bad it may be more complicated and I may need a laparotomy again. I replied to him that it would not matter to me now how they done it if it was needed after all I already have a big scar going down my front.
I also asked him if it would be ok if I fell pregnant now. He said it would be no problem with me getting pregnant after the operation as I had healed enough but there was a concern about me having trouble conceiving because of my tubes. Which I knew anyway after my 2009 operation.
On the way home we stopped off at my GP surgery to get my amended hour’s sick note extended for another 3 weeks. I asked if my day 2 progesterone blood results were back. The receptionist said that they were and came back non-ovulatory, not what I wanted to hear. Maybe though it is because of the operation and me being so ill and will settle down. But I am doing home tests and they say that I am ovulating. We will see what my gynaecologist had to say next week. I am starting to dread this appointment as it is going to be mainly about my fertility, or lack off.
This week I am doing 24 hours at work last week and the week before I done 16 hours. It is taking its time but I cannot rush myself. I still cannot use the dishwasher, but feel better about this now that I know that this is normal.
Just picked up my extended sick note to give me 3 more weeks until I go back full time. Just spoken to my supervisor I am down to do 29 hours next week. I hope that it is not going to be too many hours. We will see. 24 seemed a good amount of hours to do this week, making it worth me going in for even though I am so tired.
I have had some bowel cramps and pains in my pelvis today. The cramps came on this afternoon suddenly, feels like the bowel is trying to push something through. I have had a few bowel movements today but they were a bit odd. They were very dark, soft (cow pat texture) and thin. I am feeling constipated got the urge to go but nothing or very little coming out. I have been eating a few nuts and seeds over the pass 3 or so days I am going to give them a break as this is the only different thing I have eaten recently. I may take some lactulose solution as well to help me go. I hope it is not anything and is just either the nuts/seeds or the fact that I could have over done it yesterday when I cleaned the living room (windows, vacuuming, dusting top to bottom). What worries me is that over the past hour my pelvis has been very sore as well, is it coincidence? I am on day 12 of my cycle and due to ovulate any day now, are these feelings because of this? Will get my heat pad out later to see if it eases this and start testing ovulation today. Not that the tests are showing an accurate result as they say I am ovulation as well as my BBT but the “day 21” test said that I am not. But just in case I will continue using them and mention this to my gynaecologist on Monday morning. I have so many questions for him. Maybe I should write them down so I do not forget any. Today is Thursday so only a few more days to go. I am looking forwards to it but am also a little apprehensive about it as well. I just hope I am not over reacting about these feelings in my bowel. But I am also worried about under reacting like I did before. Oh well I am sure it is nothing.
Anyhow roll on Monday, when I can hopefully get some answers. Questions I must ask:-
- Why home ovulation tests and basal body temperature indicate ovulation but the “day 21” progesterone blood test indicated non-ovulatory?
- Chat about how my periods have gone from a 33 day cycle with 4 days spotting, 7 days bleeding 2 or 3 days spotting after then spotting on and off during the rest of the cycle. To a 28 day cycle 1 day spotting before 4 days of light bleeding and 3 days spotting then spotting during ovulation (or where ovulation should be) however this month I had 6 days of spotting.
- What is happening about my smear test?
- How are we going to control my endometriosis?
- My fertility – what is going to happen now?
- Am I going to have to have another major operation or not, if so is it going to be sooner or later?
- My pelvic pain is still there even though my periods are not as painful. What is causing the pelvic pain?
- Also whilst I am talking of pain I am still finding sex slightly painful. But now it is not just before/sometimes during. I find it is also at the beginning as he enters me I find it painful and tense up slightly. It is so frustrating because I love having sex as much as anyone but I do not love having the pain that I have during and after.
Well the lactulose worked I felt much better after that. My ovulation test came back negative. But the following day it said it was positive. I forgot to test last night but I normally get 2 positive days before my BBT shoots up. Fingers crossed that I am actually ovulating. I gave up the nuts for a few days to see if that was affecting my bowel but after taking the lactulose I felt so much better. But after 12 hours I started to feel bad again and by 24 hours I started to feel constipated again even today I am not feeling right and when I go it is still small amounts. So I do not think it is the nuts and seeds. For the past 3 days after or near the end of the shift I have been getting a burning stabbing pain to the right side of my abdomen it lasts for a few hours before it starts to ease. Another thing to mention tomorrow.
Well I have just got back from seeing my gynaecologist, it went ok I guess. He managed to try a smear test and was successful to get enough cells. But there was some blood so this could affect the result. He said that my cervix was high and far back, which is what I knew anyway. The smear test was still very painful but I managed to tolerate it this time. He told me that my blood tests from February came back perfect which is good. The day 21 came back inconclusive not non –ovulatory which could be that I was slightly late in getting the blood done so I am going to have to get that re-done. He told me I am now a high risk surgery patient if I am to have abdominal surgery again. They do not want to operate on my stomach if they can avoid it because it is always possible that I could have a reoccurrence as everything is stuck to everything else. I feel that this is not so good as if my endometriosis flares up again they are going to have to operate again are they not? My endometriosis is definitely now classed as severe. On top of my “day 21” progesterone appointment I am also to have a HyCoSy examination.