Back to work
Today I’m back to work, but george has been buggin me.
Yesterday, I was told I could stay home from work because the substitute nanny they’d gotten could do two straight days. It’s a good thing I stayed home, too. I was fine from the time I woke at 8am until 12pm.
During the morning, I had not stayed bedridden, but I had not exerted myself, nor did I fall to any cravings or any forbidden foods. I sorted paperwork while standing for a bit, because I was so tired of being on my butt and/or my back. Even before the pain hit on Monday at 5am, I’d spent Saturday and Sunday in bed for much of the day because I was severely exhausted, either from george or from the antibiotics or both.
Noon on the dot yesterday, george returned with a gush and then the searing pain. I took 800mg Ibuprofen and a whole Tylenol 3.
George faded again by around 6:30pm, and I spotted for the rest of the night. Our neighbor swung by and took me and my husband to her friend’s house after 8pm, and we watched the season premiere of Lost, season 5. I am HOOKED on that show! LOVE it.
Though the bleeding subsided, I was left with a very tender pelvic area all night. This left me worried, wondering if the severe pain was going to return again, wondering if all that pelvic tenderness was clots because I spent so much time bedridden. I swear, my pelvic region felt like it did after surgery - super tender to the touch right above the pubic line, and sloshy/bloated feeling. This cycle, I also had pain in the urinary tract, which I rarely get, even though endometriosis is on the bladder. I’m thinking that was caused by the antibiotics. I have forgotten for the past two days to take my probiotic pill to balance out what the antibiotic is wiping out of my system in order to have cured the sinus infection (which is all cleared up now btw and antibiotics are all done).
Today I returned to work. My body was fine again until 12pm. The low back pain hit, first. I was sitting on the couch watching the baby empty out her toybox, and I bent forward to interact with her and OW! sudden sharp pain in the lower back, on the left side. It’s a deep pain, not a superficial strain pain. It’s the pain I always get with george. As soon as that pain hit, I knew the pelvic pain would be next. I looked at the clock, remarking aloud that it was probably noon, and sure enough, 12:02pm.
WHAT THE HELL.
I remember years ago, I was so confounded by this 24-hour (and sometimes 12-hour) prompt returning of symptoms, that I checked ocean tides to see if my body was following those. I may have even looked at the lunar cycle at some point in my life, too.
Alas, none of it matched up. I’m guessing my body has its own tide, in accordance with hormones or something.
I popped 800mg as soon as the pelvic pain followed the back pain. I started spotting a little heavier.
Thankfully, the pain and bleeding did not ramp up further than a 3 on the Mankoski Pain Scale, and the Ibuprofen seems to have done the trick in beating back what pain there was.