Has anyone not thought that yet?
There are so many times over the last five years where something has happened and I've worried because the docs didn't tell me to expect it, or that it might happen, or the best one - the docs didn't know it could happen!
The reason I bring it up? Well, I'm going personal again folks so you may want to avert your eyes!
I've recently had a hysteroscopy and then a pipelle biopsy - nope, that's not where they stick a bat (pipistrelle) up your vagina to gnaw off a chunk of your womb, it's where a long, thin chomping rod goes up and chews off worm shaped bits as it's dragged down your womb walls. It then sucks them up like spaghetti, before rinsing them of blood etc where they're caught in a sieve to be sent for testing. Usually they only take a couple of worms out for testing, but in my case they stripped the entirety of it away and left it all sparkly new....... Hardly. After that, they inserted a Mirena Coil to stop it all from growing back, and so long as today's MRI doesn't show any spread - theory says that's my womb cancer suppressed. Done and Dusted.
This was done on the 4th of December, and I was told to expect to cramp and bleed for a maximum of 2 weeks while everything healed and the coil found itself a crevice to nestle into.
LOL.
Still bleeding.
Still cramping.
But that's not the thing that made me start this blog post. No. That's just background. As is the following;
I get really bad headaches sometimes from Tom (the meningioma, for those who don't read all of my weird ramblings), and there's really only one thing I've found that will get rid of them and help me to sleep. An orgasm. Yes folks, the female orgasm - it's not a myth/legend! It's real!
So, this is what happened last night. I had a really bad headache and pills weren't touching it. I couldn't sleep for the pain, so there was only one thing for it. Well, it was the first time I'd tried since having the coil fitted. And oh. My. Goodness. NO.
No no no no no no NO!
The leaflet lied to me! It said I could resume normal sexual activity whenever I felt like it and was up to it. HA! No! Right when the whole exercise was coming to fruition, and the muscles clenched - it hurt SO much! It was like the flipping coil had come to life and was being wielded like a tiny Excaliber to stab me repeatedly. And funnily enough, the bloomin bleeding decided to renew it's vigours - though you would too if you'd been stabbed with a sword!
I'm sure a number of you have stopped reading by now, while others are reading on in abject horror, wondering why on earth I'm giving you TMI and totally grossing you out?
Well, it's because if someone doesn't talk about it openly and honestly, and the doctors either don't know or don't warn you - then some other poor woman is going to get to that point, the same thing will happen, and she'll be too embarrassed to mention it to anyone, and so the cycle will continue. I think I've got to the point where so many docs have seen, inserted, sliced, touched, and removed most of my body that I have gone beyond embarrased. If my tales of ew can help someone else with the reality of what they might be facing - then that's awesome, and exactly why we need to be the ones to talk about and share our experiences. Because if not us, who?
So my challenge for you from this post? Share something either; in your own blog, here in the comments, in your group, anywhere on the sit you're comfortable to - that has happened to you on your journey with cancer that you weren't warned might happen. Especially if it is something a little icky that perhaps before now you were too ashamed or embarassed to share. You never know, you might find other people who have experienced the same, or folks about to go through it and because they were forewarned, they were forearmed.
Let's help others learn from our experiences, and break the cycle of silence!
xxx
