Caring for My Chaos

I had my ultrasound today, which went well. They found nothing but nabothian cysts on my cervix, which come to find out, is normal. Those go away on their own. So, now they are going to schedule me for the endometrial ablation. For those of you who didn't read the first post, I suffer from increasingly horrible periods. I went to the doctor 2 weeks ago because the pain from the last one had left me in tears. They have been getting worse every month over the past year. Which, he said in about a quarter of women after the age of 35, this happens. It's usually because of a hormone shift. So, he went through what will happen when I come in for the ablation. I get put to sleep, (Yay!), then they will dilate my cervix and do a D&C. He did say that some insurance companies make them do a biopsy at the same time to make sure there isn't any cancer, so they may do that too. Then they will use a little instrument called a NovaSure to, in a sense, cauterize my uterus. This w...

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This is not a sponsored post. L'Oreal has not compensated me in any way and I am just sharing because that's what I do! OK, if you have been reading this blog for any amount of time, you know I have had problems with my hair. I don't like it. It was going through a "straw" stage for a little while there and I was going to try the "no-poo" experiment which did not last long. Well, I got to reading up on how hormones effect your hair. I have had problems with peri-menopause symptoms since my early 20's. When I was about 25 or so, I went to the doctor because I began having night sweats and hot flashes something fierce. He had me do one of those at home menopause tests and sure enough, it said I was in peri-menopause. Now, mind you, this was about 2 years before my son was born. In my research, I was reading this one woman's story about how her hair turned to straw after a hormone shift. And she started using this mask and said that it made her ...