Time to chill the hell out
So I was reading an endometriosis support group forum as I so often do when I have george, and once again, I got miffed at the posts I’m seeing there.
It seems that nobody actually wants to follow sane advice - they all want to bitch and moan about their condition and then go after the latest snake oil treatment or worse, write to Oprah to have her bring awareness to the disease…
They’re also posting about The Petal Study, even though I’m SURE I posted there about this already, informing them of the details. Strangely, I cannot find any of my last posts to this list. I wonder if I’ve been purged. I wonder if my two comments today to the list will be purged. Hmmm.
I vent here about my chronic health condition. I rant about advice handed down from doctors, sure. But I have tried their methods. I’m just tired of trying every new thing. I’ve tried diet modification. I’ve tried going for a walk during cramps. I’ve tried having sex during cramps. I’ve tried chiropractic. I’ve had surgery. I’ve tried hormones. All of these were recommended to me by others. Nothing stops the pain. Now, anything anyone has to suggest to me for the pain just comes off sounding pompous to me. They have NO idea what I’m going through. Only I do. I’m tired of following the advice of others. I know I have no choices, here. I just have to ride it out. I vent here, and I crosspost the george posts to the DailyStrength account, merely as a means of sharing what I go through, so others won’t feel alone should they find me on the web. So I’m sure that’s what the others are doing on the DailyStrength site, too - they just want to know others are out there, like them, going through the same things.
What pisses me off though is when people just blindly start following advice without researching it, first. It’s also SO frustrating that these people can’t be bothered to use a spell checker before sending out their posts. Spell check, people! It’s easy and quick!
My problem is that I got so worked up about this today, that while I was sitting at my computer, I bent over to straighten my sock, and BAM, my left shoulder went out.
Go me! Dumbass!
My back has been locked up since yesterday and I did take a muscle relaxer at bedtime. But today the back was still locked up and it finally went out. All I did was bend forward to adjust my goddamned sock! Now the shoulders are so taut that the pain radiates up my neck on both sides and the back, into the back of my skull.
It’s not the first time my shoulders have gone out in conjunction with having george:
I’ve taken a muscle relaxer but it hasn’t succeeded in putting me down. I need to pop another. Perhaps it’s time for horse tranquilizers?
Oh, and the george pain ramped up right after throwing my back out. How very nice of him.