The last couple of days have been tough for my endometriosis! It started yesterday I went to bed at almost 3am cause I am a night owl and was woken up by a beeping sound. Turns out our Carbon Monoxide alarm was beeping and my cat was trying to hide from the loud sounds. At first, I started to freak out & stress out because I had just woken up, I thought it was beeping 4 times which would signify an emergency and meant that it was detecting carbon monoxide so it really freaked me out. I frantically called my husband to let him know what was going on & asked if it was beeping before he left for work that morning and he had said "No, it wasn't" he listened to the beeping through the phone and told me it sounded like 5 beeps not 4...so did a quick google search to find out 5 beeps means either it needs new batteries or the whole system is expired and needs replaced. I thought hey didn't we just have the batteries replaced.
So, I got on the computer and put in a work order to maintenance (we live in an apartment complex) and left them a digital message about the work order. As soon as they opened maintenance came up around 9:30am, he said the system was expired and the whole thing needed replacing, so he ran down to get a new one and some tools but unfortunately was called to another job and never made it back up (luckily today he's coming back up around 4:30pm to install it on the wall). But being that the beeping originally woke me up and I waited till 5:30pm with no sign of him I was running on 4.5 hours of sleep, if you know anything about endometriosis you know just about anything can set off flares and pain from endo including lack of sleep.
I began getting pelvic pain yesterday from lack of sleep, eventually, I went to go lay down for a 2-hour nap before hubby was planning to be home from work, and I ended up sleeping 1.5 hours but then woke up with stabbing pain in the vagina (yes, the vagina) in the endo community it is called Lightening Crotch and can happen often with this condition. I ended up just getting up (hubby was home anyway), had dinner, watched a few YouTube videos, loom knitted, did some work on the computer, and then went back to bed around 1:30am (yeah night owl here lol).
I ended up sleeping very well however woke up a few times with stomach pain - strong pelvic pain, strong uterine cramps, and just the feeling of an endo flare trying to come on I've felt like this most of the day so far. I ended up making my coffee and taking a magnesium supplement for the cramps which I tend to take when I start feeling this way, it seems to help 💜
Unfortunately with this condition you have your good days & your bad days!
I should have come on here and posted this last night but totally forgot to do so, so I'm on here now making this blog post. I created this blog because I wanted to raise awareness for Endometriosis, give resources, and share education along with sharing my own personal journey/experience with this condition. So that's why I'm sharing this post today. Last night went pretty well when the pain came over me suddenly without warning, I was sitting on the couch watching a True Crime video on YouTube and doing some loom knitting which I hadn't done in months when all of a sudden I started to get pain at the same time on both sides of my pelvis that literally felt like someone took 2 knives and stabbed my pelvis continuously this pain lasted for probably 15 minutes and then went away. But my first thought was "Oh no, am I going to have a flare-up tonight?" It literally felt like I was going to have a flare, I will never forget what it felt like at the onset and I k...
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