Mostly a vent but tw just in case because of medical, blood, surgery, weed, painkillers, all that fun stuff. Cashews and blackberry lemonade water to wash down my ibuprofen. 

So. I have endometriosis. Had the laparoscopic surgery 5 days before my 30th birthday to confirm. My periods have always been severe, and I'm exhausted at this point. I'm on day 3 today and I'm still in so much pain. Ibuprofen can *sometimes* dull the pain of I take it early enough before the cramps start, but not always.

My periods also follow a very strict pattern. I wake up 2 hours earlier than intended the day it's going to start, but I don't realize that's the reason I'm awake early until it actually starts. The blood starts, the cramps start, then the nausea hits. I'll be in so much pain that it literally makes me throw up. Once I've gotten sick enough that I'm exhausted, I usually pass out and sleep until the next day, regardless of how long I've been awake. I've literally woken up, been awake for about an hour and gone through all the steps, passed out and slept until my alarm the next morning more than once.

It has affected my job, my life, the pain gets so bad that it keeps me awake at night. I've tried everything: birth control (EVERY kind I've tried just makes it worse), all the different otc pain killers as well as some of the prescription only ones (I even got oxy for it once) and none of that helps unless I take it early enough before the cramps start and even then, it still only dulls it. There are only three things that I've found that actually help: heat, sex, and weed. Well, can't exactly soak in the tub while I'm at work and I work out of a van all day so I can't just plug my heating pad in, I'm currently in a LDR so sex is off the table and even then can't do it at work, and weed same issue of not being able to use it at work. You best believe I go into the stratosphere when I get home though just for a little relief.

I'm just so tired. I've been planning on getting a hysterectomy for a long time, but of course now I've found someone I'm actually interested in having kids with. Idk, I just needed to vent. Normally by day 3 I'm not in so much pain but I guess since it was a week late this month it had extra buildup time.

Any of y'all with the same issue have any suggestions I haven't listed to try?

I'm so tired of having endometriosis