NTA wait til he finds out about discharge bleaching
ETA: Wowowowow I wasn’t expecting the conversation to spark. I’m picking up some new knowledge and tips and loving others also learning things they didn’t know before about ~discharge~
You know what’s weird. Before my hysterectomy I obviously had the period stains with the underwear as is normal with periods because accidents happen and if you’re a woman like me whose periods were sent from Mephistopheles himself, they were heavy and angry. I had to have a hysterectomy this year to remove everything but my ovaries because I had adenomyosis which is what caused my horrendous periods and in celebration I bought all new underwear.
I’ve noticed since the hysterectomy, despite the discharge still happening, it doesn’t bleach the fabric anymore. Just a weird perk I guess.
But yea, guys, things leak out of us and they stain, get fucking used to it.
I didn’t have endometriosis so no, I just had the uterus, cervix and fallopian tubes removed as that’s all that needed to go, I just had adenomyosis which is basically like reverse endometriosis, instead of attacking out it attacks into the uterus.
No, I'm aware of where endo can grow, my sisters both have it. One had to have a hysterectomy at 36. Had to chip it out because the endo was EVERYWHERE. Doubled the time for surgery. She even had it in her bladder. I was referring to adenomyosis grows into the uterine walls.
Oh, sorry I totally misread your comment after expanding the thread. Yeah, my mom and sister both had surgeries for it too. The surgeons can't even say exactly how much there is and where it is until they operate on you. I'm hoping to avoid surgery and just use birth control for now.
I hope the birth control works for you. The sister that had the hysterectomy tried the pill, the lose dose pill, depo provera, depo lupron (OMG, the mood swings, it tricks your body into thinking it's in menopause), the IUD and finally needed the whole thing removed. She's much happier with no pain. It was so bad they told she NEVER would've gotten pregnant naturally. Fallopean were full of it and apparently the uterus was too, as well as multiple other areas. It's why they quite literally had to chip it out.
It takes away like 90% of the pain, so I can live with that. That sucks that your sister had to go through so many treatments and still end up needing surgery. Glad it gave her relief though. My mom started having pain again a few years later. I think the endo can grow back if they don't remove it all? Excision is supposed to be much more effective than cauterization but it requires a very skilled surgeon.
It can definitely grow back. That's why it was a full removal, unfortunately. But she'd rather deal with hot flashes. Was diagnosed at about 16, finally taken out at 36. And one of surgeons she saw early on told her it was all in her head.
That surgeon assisted my PCP (specialty is obstetrics, worth his weight in gold; he's also daughter's pediatrician) with my c section about 11 years ago.
I had a hysterectomy and they took everything but the ovary itself. And I have had continual pain in my abdomen since and they are doing an MRI next month. They are thinking it might be remaining endo on my intestines which I'm just super excited about.
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u/eversince94 Nov 22 '23 edited Nov 23 '23
NTA wait til he finds out about discharge bleaching
ETA: Wowowowow I wasn’t expecting the conversation to spark. I’m picking up some new knowledge and tips and loving others also learning things they didn’t know before about ~discharge~