12/09/2025
🩷 Girly post alert 🩷
I wanted to share just because I A) don't think it's talked about enough and B) think it's important to talk about.
Women's health is rough! At least in my experience and from friends I have talked to. How many times was I dismissed because a doctor would say "Oh you have three kids this young, it's just stress." 😲
It's been the most frustrating thing for me, to the point where I just stopped going. However, this year after 12 yrs of not going I finally went and found an amazing Dr. Which is so hard to do. But when you find one it's life changing.
She took my concerns seriously and is working with me so I don't always feel miserable.
The first step of that for me was getting an ablation that hopefully means no more periods. I feel like I have talked to so many women recently who didn't even know what an ablation was or that it's an option.
My periods got really really bad in February of this year. To the point where that first heavy day I couldn't get out of bed. It was just draining everything and my baseline is always slightly anemic.
So keeping my blood in would be helpful and I'm hoping it makes life a little easier. Now granted if you have watched my recovery the last couple of days you might be like no thank you. Please know for a lot of women day 2 they feel a lot better! I even felt a little better.
However, I have some autoimmune issues and low blood pressure so my recovery took 3-4 days till I felt totally normal. None the less, I would do it all over again if it works.
The pain was gone after the first day, the spotting has almost stopped and I am feeling super hopeful that this is the first step!
I might need to go on estrogen just because mine was very low, nothing to do with the ablation. That was just my first step. But the whole point is there are things out there and you don't deserve or need to feel miserable.
It's so hard to find a doctor who cares but it is worth looking into. It's worth finding someone who will look at your hormones, do a breast exam, do ultrasounds of your pelvis and schedule an ablation or hormones or certain meds if it will make you feel better!
I'm feeling hopeful for the first time in well forever that maybe I don't have to feel completely exhausted all the time and just accept that that's life!
How has your experience been with women related health care?
