Trust Your Gut

I've been playing with writing this for months now, I didn't want to air my female issues like a blathering idiot with no good reason. Post-surgery I have my reason. Guys, you might want to skip this one.

It started last July, on and off weight gain with no explanation. Then December it actually got worse, I wasn't feeling well, my husband and I were on the verge of taking a pregnancy test. Very scary when one has had an IUD in for 2 1/2 years. We didn't need one, I lost a bunch of weight things were going okay.

Except I had this odd nagging feeling about taking the IUD out. And I kept gaining weight around my middle. I spoke with my primary care doctor about it who agreed it was strange, but also made a couple decrees about my diet. Which I am still following.

My gut instincts won out and I made the appointment to get the IUD removed. It's a 2-second procedure, no pain, no fuss.

And then the bleeding started, and the light-headedness, and the trip to the ER because I fainted. All through this I'm getting slack for taking out a "successful" form of birth control, I upset my system, etc, etc. But no one had an answer as to why I bled like a stuck pig for two weeks when with an IUD there is no lining to shed. My hormones were a mess, exhaustion, hot flashes, acne, you name it anywhere between adolecence and menopause, I got hit with it. Three sonograms and two hystosonograms later (my insurance company hates me right now) they found a polyp in my uterus.

And I kept wondering what would have happened if I hadn't trusted myself and made the decision I did.

Fast forward to this past Monday when I had surgery to remove the polyp. The doctor took some really nice pictures of my insides to make sure of what he was going in for and found the fibroid that had been tucked into my uterine wall successfully through two pregnancies was hanging off my uterus.

I am recovering now from a more invasive procedure than anticipated, still wondering what would have happened to me if I hadn't trusted my gut?