Two week health update.
So I am back. Sorry for the small hiatus. Sometimes this health journey is just so exhausting, I can’t take it and just need breaks from talking about it.
So last week, I basically went to pelvic floor physical therapy (PVPT) and it went well. I really like my physical therapist, she is really cool and very nice. I don’t necessarily feel like the PT is really doing anything right now? But time will tell. Then I had a dermatologist appointment last Friday to freeze off the wart on my foot, which was painful but I think I’m getting much closer to it finally being gone. It would literally be the first time in my life I would never have a wart. Mostly because I started swim as such a young child and ever since then, I had warts on the bottom of my feet.
Then this week I had PVPT twice again. It’s getting better as I’m getting more accustomed to it, especially the internal PT days. It’s still just such a weird concept but I hope that it works. Again we shall see.
However, on Tuesday this week, I went to a pelvic pain specialist for suspected endometriosis. Lo and behold I get in there (with my mom, who is currently my emotional support person) and the doctor was a little upset that they just sort of labeled my symptoms as endometriosis. She said it could be, but with the timeline of what has happened, she doesn’t think that it is. We literally talked for an hour and a half and I cried, my mom cried, and the doctor even teared up at one point. It will forever go down as one of the best appointments I’ve ever been to. She was so understanding and really listened to me. By the end, she said that I could have something called Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) and that I need to get tested for that. And in the meantime, I would start to take muscle relaxers every single night which would help my muscles relax and when taken consistently, would also help to reduce the amount of pain that I am in. I seriously could talk for a whole day about how awesome she was. I don’t know if she is right, I’ll see this next week when I get testing for MCAS.
Overall, the muscle relaxers make me feel really out of it and it doesn’t help that I have my period right now, so I just overall don’t feel super great. I’ll be back next week with hopefully an update.
(Picture is from Lake Beulah, East Troy, WI, USA.)