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Some good news.
Sep. 4th, 2019 11:01 pmSo, I have fibroids pretty bad. It's made a significant impact on my life and my health. My last ultrasound was about a year ago exactly, and to paraphrase the nurse practitioner who performed it "that's no moon." I have no idea if it is cancerous or not, because none of the obgyns I have seen will biopsy it. It's not common for them to develop into cancer, but my mom's, when she had her hysterectomy and it was biopsied, was precancerous. She was 39 when she had it done. I'm 42.
The thing is, I am not sure how badly this has affected my physicality, and how much of it is down to being sedentary and having depression. I had a Tumblr addiction from 2012-2017 where I would come home and literally just spend all evening on Tumblr, and a concurrent Skyrim addiction where a lot of the time I would come home and do that instead. I stopped exercising. I had a shitty mattress for a while. I gained 30 lbs. All of these things kind of snowballed into me being in the worst shape of my life, until recently.
I've been exercising more this year. Part of it was having nothing more to do after quitting Tumblr. A health scare last year led me to start walking around the apartment complex every evening, or when I can. I am upstairs again, which means stairs.
Something happened the other day that hasn't happened in years. I was at a friend's house, and got down on the floor to pet their cat:
(this guy right here)
And lay down on my stomach. And got back up with no trouble. Without pain, without needing help, or having to struggle. This was not possible for me even a year ago.
This is amazing. I think it's all down to exercise. And it's even possible for regular exercise to cause fibroids to break up. I still need to get the hysterectomy. I'm never having kids, even if I wanted them. The first ulrasound in 2014 confirmed this.
This is not "exercise and taking a walk outside magically cures long term illness and depression!" I think it helped some of the fallout of my very specific problem, not cured it.
(But yay LOL gains.)
current mood:
The thing is, I am not sure how badly this has affected my physicality, and how much of it is down to being sedentary and having depression. I had a Tumblr addiction from 2012-2017 where I would come home and literally just spend all evening on Tumblr, and a concurrent Skyrim addiction where a lot of the time I would come home and do that instead. I stopped exercising. I had a shitty mattress for a while. I gained 30 lbs. All of these things kind of snowballed into me being in the worst shape of my life, until recently.
I've been exercising more this year. Part of it was having nothing more to do after quitting Tumblr. A health scare last year led me to start walking around the apartment complex every evening, or when I can. I am upstairs again, which means stairs.
Something happened the other day that hasn't happened in years. I was at a friend's house, and got down on the floor to pet their cat:
(this guy right here)
And lay down on my stomach. And got back up with no trouble. Without pain, without needing help, or having to struggle. This was not possible for me even a year ago.
This is amazing. I think it's all down to exercise. And it's even possible for regular exercise to cause fibroids to break up. I still need to get the hysterectomy. I'm never having kids, even if I wanted them. The first ulrasound in 2014 confirmed this.
This is not "exercise and taking a walk outside magically cures long term illness and depression!" I think it helped some of the fallout of my very specific problem, not cured it.
(But yay LOL gains.)
current mood:
