Acupuncture Makes a Difference

Awareness is the only thing I had in mind as I decided to post this. Let it be known that all women, may it be young or old are likely to experience same thing I've had for about seven years now and I hope you can find answers too as I am on my way to finally get mine.

Year 2007 I was diagnosed with adenomyosis and endometriosis. Please try to search these two in google so you'll have an idea. As for me I felt severe pain during menstruation, more likely a knife stabbing pain plus heavy bleeding. Before the diagnosis I normally took a pill or two to relieve myself from pain but not until vomiting came too. Dehydration then was another problem that I could no longer take oral medications so I ended up at the hospital almost every month taking high dosage of pain relievers through IV or IM injections depending on the level of dehydration. With the condition, I confess that I've lost the normal life I once had. It felt like every joyful moment was taken from me and it pained me more seeing how members of my family were greatly affected. My cry was their cry. Even my mother once told me if she could only take the pain and carried it all by herself, surely she would. Their prayers, love and support were the reasons I strongly hold on to the hope that if not soon, someday I'll be healed. Aside from my family, my job was also affected. The sole reason of giving it up was again the worsening condition I terribly felt. It was not a high-paying job though if I may say but I loved it and enjoyed the people around. My colleagues even learned to track my menstrual cycle because I took absences every time I had it. I mean every month they knew as to when I'd be out of the office since I always had a regular period and hadn't experience amenorrhea even at the time I had my GNRH shots. I once wished it's just a nightmare and everything will be okay anytime I wake myself up. 

Year 2009 I got married. Yes, I'm not that physically beautiful though but still got into it. After all, I felt so blessed. God graced me with a loving and responsible husband. He had full knowledge of my condition before marriage but still he pursued. He took the risk. Right there and then I realized true love really do exists. Unexpectedly he stood by me and never failed to lighten me up despite all the burdens I carried all along. I oftentimes told him that I may not be abundant in my health aspect but blessed enough to have him. For almost five years of being together, I only had one confirmed pregnancy. That was six months after the wedding but it ended up into miscarriage. It was another shattering experience for both of us but we kept in mind that God has other plans.

Year 2012 I underwent surgical operation because as months came by the pain was getting worst. For long we hold on to the chance of getting me pregnant because of the possibility that everything will turn back to normal after conception. My ob-gyne prescribed me with fertility meds but it just didn't work until such time my stomach became bigger. It was as if I was bearing a three-month old fetus inside. She referred me to a laparoscopic surgeon and to make it short the operation procedures (pelvic laparotomy, myomectomy and left oophorocystectomy) were succeeded. After the operation regular monthly cycle resumed and the pain subsided but it's still there. Good thing I was not hospitalized anymore for over a year now for the same reason. I learned to manage the pain by taking oral medications and just stayed in bed feeling drained. Though I was admitted in the hospital once after surgery but it was for another medical problem. Yes, another one and it happened about four months after the said operation. Diagnosis was gastroesophagal reflux disease. It was like a panic disorder. It may sounds not too complicated but what I felt were hyperventilation, chest pain, heartburn, trouble swallowing/breathing, insomnia, anxiety and burping countless times in a day. Haist! If something is wrong, everything will just go wrong. Thank God I still have that sanity in me. A year after surgery, November 2013, everything was back, the pains, heavy bleeding and vomiting. I thought everything will fall into place but everything failed. It's really frustrating to think that it didn't come out well. I felt like losing a battle. Despite all these, I continuously asked God to send instruments for my healing. This is where latest technology played a big role and it made me thanked Him it exists nowadays. Not too long I liked an FB page, Adenomyosis Advice Association, there I find group of women with same condition as mine. It's good to feel I'm not alone. It caught my attention when some of the followers talked about acupuncture as their way to manage pain. Curiosity then arises. I researched thoroughly through internet about it and the eagerness to try came to my senses. Finally I got my first session right after my cycle at Point of Care Acupuncture Clinic last November 29 with Dr. Jefferson Ong as the certified medical acupuncturist. Every Friday of the following weeks I went there for a thirty-minute relaxation while fine needles were inserted into my skins. After three sessions, my December cycle came and to my surprise I could tell that my body got a positive response. The pains on both pelvic and lower abdomen parts were mild. I observed too that blood clots and heavy bleeding which I usually had since diagnosis were lessen. I remembered how terrible the previous cycle was that I thought I would end up in hospital bed. I was really down then. I endured pain for almost eight hours, throwing up seven times and couldn't eat anything. I took medicines but only few were successfully digested. I knew from the start it would only take a miracle to make myself free of this horrible world of pain. When would that be; only God knows. The existence of acupuncture and the good result I felt after three succeeding sessions somehow gave me little shed of light on the darkness where I'd been staying. Yet, I can't say now it's one hundred percent guaranteed because I only had six sessions in a row. As per Dr. Ong, significant effect will be felt after three or four cycles so I still have to undergo few more sessions.

I did quite enough research as to the cause for these conditions, unfortunately for adenomyosis, it discloses none. I even personally asked my doctor but she too couldn't tell. When I had my acupuncture visit, I came across a health magazine and able to read an article about endometriosis and it says that it is common to women who are tall, thin and with low body mass index (BMI). Poor me, I got those three. If only I've known it earlier I could have done something to avoid such. So now girls, if you look like having these three, try to eat a lot so you can gain more weights and increase your BMI. Please allow me to add these... live a stress-free life, try to have good eating habits, make an effort to do daily exercises and ignore people with ugly hearts. 

 Life exists on purpose and so pain is. You know why? For me, God doesn't want us to go astray. He wants to keep us in His loving embrace. For a man who has everything the world can offer might be trapped to earthly sins and it would be impossible to join Him in heaven.