'I wish more people talked about it so I wouldn't have felt like such an alien.'
"I Wish More People Talked About It": Women Are Sharing Things They Didn’t Learn About Their Bodies Until It Happened To Themto share things they didn't learn about their bodies until it happened to them, and I received an overwhelming amount of responses. Reading through them was a rollercoaster of"What your first period can actually look like! I was 12 when mine started , and I kept seeing brown stuff in my underwear.
"The spasms increased, my mobility was so limited, and I was starting to miss work frequently because my back was on fire and I couldn't move. I had an orthopedic surgery years prior due to a dance injury, so one day, I thought to call the same surgeon and see if they could check out my back and hip. After the first MRI, my labrum was torn.
He ordered bloodwork for me and sent the results to my primary care provider, who immediately sent me to an endocrinologist. He diagnosed me with. I never thought I was at risk of an autoimmune disease . I also fully understood a friend of mine living with Lupus when she told me that autoimmune diseases feel like your body’s working against you no matter how healthy you try to be."if you take birth control for more than five years.
"That not everyone has period cramps that feel the same, and some people don’t have cramps at all! I remember when I first started getting really bad cramps, my mom said I was fine because 'Her cramps don’t ever feel that bad.' So, I assumed we all feel cramps the same way and that I just needed to toughen up."
"I went to the doctor about the migraines I was having . I couldn’t explain why, nothing unusual was going on, so the doctor decided on some medication and to draw blood. The bloodwork showed my thyroid wasn’t producing enough hormones . I got some more meds, and I decided to look up hypothyroidism.
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