Re:In hospital for 34 years
by bufferoverflow on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @05:00AM
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Thanks! I won't give up while I can still move and talk :)
Glad your wife figured it out.
Thanks.
It's totally cliché, but i was very happy to be there for her.
What was she diagnosed with?
Endometriosis
Re:In hospital for 34 years
by bufferoverflow on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @06:57AM
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Ouch. That's one of the most painful and hard to diagnose disorders, I remember watching an educational video on it.
Indeed it is. Almost 50% of the women have it, but most of them don't even know it. It varies from painless to enormous pain.
My wife described the recurring pain as stomach full of slow moving very sharp knives.
My daughter has this. And PCOS. It also took years for it to be diagnosed correctly. She even had doctors tell her to get psychotherapy because it was "all in your head"!
For my wife it took about 20 years to get her constant pain acknowledged. After that it took more than 10 gyneacologists to even get her diagnosed. We still needed a 2nd opinion to get a decent operation done.
For more than half her life she believed the problem was 'in her head and she should shut up about it'.
Her pain treshold is so high that i feel like a total wimp whenever i complain about pain.