Severe Cramping and Chronic Back Pain After Fall

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severe cramping where it feels like there's like shards of glass being dragged upon my ovaries. That sounds bad. How long has it been like that since you started menstruating? Um yeah I'd say since I was like 16. Okay. And and I think I mentioned that they think I have endometriosis but I've never actually had a laparoscopracy done. What did someone diagnose you with that? Um I've just been like I've gone to the hospital multiple times with period pain and they just have said like hey you might have endometriosis. Yeah okay that's fine. Um and have you ever tried therapies to stop your periods from happening or to improve them? Uh I mean I've been on birth control before but that that was not good for my body. My body did not like being on that so I stopped. What happened when you were on birth control? Uh just like really intense hormonal swings uh when I went on it I also got acne um and yeah I just I did not feel like myself. Okay. Have you ever had an IUD? Um I have not but I I feel like I don't want to go that avenue. Okay what are your concerns about it just sort of just don't like the idea of it or? Yeah yeah and just having a foreign object in me at all times feels a bit invasive. Okay um so I'm happy to send you to a dermatologist to talk about the Dysmenorrhea. Yeah. I will tell you though that the sort of the cornerstone of treatment for that is therapies to reduce or eliminate your periods and that's either continuous birth control pills or IUDs. Okay. Um the acne part of it uh is solvable by switching to a different birth control pill but some people do feel weird about them. Yeah. And then IUD it works uh there's a little bit of progesterone in it and so most people uh experience significant reduction in their periods or in fact become amenorrheic when they have uh an IUD. Yeah. So that's those two common options. You can talk to the gynecologist about the possibility of endometriosis but those are actually the treatment for the main treatments for endometriosis as well. Okay. Okay. So would you be interested in talking to someone about it? Um yeah I'm I'm open to talking to them about it but yeah I'm not feeling like I want to go on anything hormonal in terms of yeah the birth control or the IUD. Okay. Do you ever just take like an ibuprofen or anti-inflammatory that can help quite a bit too? Yeah so I take naproxen and if I take like enough naproxen and Tylenol it does go away. So naproxen does help a bit? Yeah yeah naproxen and Tylenol combination that I usually have to take like it used to be for the first three or four days and now it seems to only really be for like the first day and a half. So I feel like it is improving but it's still in the process of healing and sometimes it's more painful than others. Okay okay. Um okay and then we're gonna also touch on um jaw. Yeah my my jaw I think I mentioned like my jaw my back and my back's been really acting up as well from the the fall. I think I had shared with you about the fall and like the whole right side of my body has been in a lot of pain too since the accident. Um can you tell me about the fall again? Um so the fall was one that I took back in March. I fell off a rock and landed on another rock just right beside my spine and I've been having pretty chronic back stuff since then. It seemed to subside a bit but it's been yeah more inflamed lately where I'm like waking up multiple times in the middle of the night in pain. Okay that's not very good and have you been telling anyone about that like physio massage or anything like that? Um so I'm seeing an osteopath right now and then I was just away so I just came back and I'm yeah I'm not really sure who might be the best person for me to see if it is like physio or chiropractor or acupuncturist or um yeah. Okay um okay pelvic abdominal stuff we're gonna send you to the gynecologist. Okay. I don't have any I don't have any explanation you know based on iron and thyroid and those sorts of things for why you're fatigued. Do you snore? Um it says I snore I say I don't I think that I don't.Can I show them? I'm very good. Can we show them? Okay. Does the editor say that you stopped breathing? Okay. And then the auricular pitch, do we need to do anything about that right now or is it kind of quiet? Okay, so that one we can just put on the back burner for now? Okay. How do you think your mood's been? Is that because of the back burner? Immediately? Yeah, but even before that, like ever since I got in that car crash, I've struggled to like fully sleep through the night. I'm usually waking up like multiple times throughout the night. Sometimes I have scary dreams, but sometimes I just get like, I don't know, it's not like something in particular wakes me up. I just wake up and I can't go back to sleep. Okay. Do you feel like your mind is racing when you wake up and you can't settle your mind down? Yeah, okay. Would you be interested in talking to a counselor about that side of it? Okay, and did you get any strategies from those encounters? I have strategies myself too that I've learned, I think. Yeah. Body's just moving. Okay. Okay, I will for sure. Yeah. Yeah, that could be, I would be open to doing that. And for that, is that supported by MSP? Okay, wow, great. Okay. Okay, yeah, I'll definitely, I'd love to come in at some point when available just for you, yeah, to take a look at my back. So just whenever would work for you, you can let me know and then I'll come in. Okay, great, I'll do that. Okay, awesome, thank you so much, Dr. Appelwhite, appreciate you. Okay, talk to you later. Okay, bye. Bye. ^rwhi945642071