The cycle strikes again

So, I've been trying not to eat while I'm at work, because I just feel awful.  It's odd how food is like alcohol sometimes, in that I will PASS THE FUCK OUT after eating.  Seriously.  Just can't help falling asleep.  Not to mention the very uncomfortable bloating, and mild pain.

So, yeah, not eating at work, but then when I come home, I'm starving.  So, last night, knowing that I'm also on my cycle and feel the endometriosis is flaring up, AND I'm running out of medication (that's another story), I ate a small amount of rice and a mild veggie curry.  Most people, who god bless them, don't understand this disease, would say, "ohhh, it was the curry, wasn't it".  NO.  Look, I can eat spicy food, it's not IBS or acid reflux, or Crohn's or whatever.  Sometimes, usually around this time, it just gets really awful.  Right now, is that time.  So much pain last night, couldn't sleep.  Wanted a mid-sectionectomy, just remove my torso please.  Felt like a twisted mess with knives sticking in a few choice places.  Feel it coming on now, even though I've had tea today....ok, and a few pine nuts, but dammit, they're soft!

Also, what's with the back pain?  It's ramped up with my cycle, but lower back gets it bad sometimes.  I was reading about fasting and it seems that lumbago is fairly common when only taking in liquid.

Speaking of, I know I should be on a liquid diet right now, but I also hate wasting food and feel like I need to eat what's in my fridge.  I also know I shouldn't be eating so much, period.  It's time to go back to fist-sized portions, and mostly soft, liquid, or pureed foods.  I don't think I anticipated how hard it would be when working in a restaurant.   I'm just going to suck it up, eat only at home where I can lay very still afterwards, be completely (rather than mostly) anti-social, and bitch on here until it passes.  After that, it's time to be more strict, and hope my friends understand I'm not trying to be difficult or a downer when I have to plan everything out and need more notice before joining them for food, or when I decline to eat.  I hate thinking about food all the time, hate having to plan everything out, but at least I'll feel better physically, then perhaps mentally.
Huzzah!

Hello again!

Not a very welcome hello, for when I post on here, you know it's back with a vengeance.
The flare-ups have to be tied to my cycle, which came a month early.  This 3-month birth control (on for Endometriosis) has me all out of whack.  I've been in pain and extremely bloated, after eating very little, for about a week now.  I'm hoping that it will go away in the next week.  But until then....

I'd almost forgotten what the bad times are like.  This is awful.  It's such an emotional affliction when it takes away from your ability to get anything done, when you REALLY have to get some things done.  Quality of life is in the toilet right now.  I shouldn't whine.  I know people have it worse.  But right now I'm dreading going home where they will worry, especially since I just quit my job (meaning: quit my health insurance).  Luckily, my gastro doc and the drug study nurse are going to keep seeing me.  Just need to find a way to get EKGs and labs paid for.  But I had to do it, that job was affecting my quality of life more than the GP...'til now.

I feel huge.  I feel pregnant.  It's hard to explain to my new co-workers and hard to hide.  I really hope this subsides soon.

Mark your calendars

May 15, right on schedule. Bad time ramped up. Exasperated, no doubt, by the fact that I ate without taking a pill. Ate at 4:30pm. Took an hour nap after that and from then on 'til early in the morning, my stomach (entire mid-section) hurt so bad I couldn't move. It subsided when I laid still, but getting up and doing things made it feel like someone took me by the shoulders and hips and just twisted with all their might, like a dishcloth being wrung out with force. The timing of these things over the past six months makes me think the flare ups are connected to my cycle.