Living with Chronic Pain.

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As part of living with endometriosis, I also live with chronic pain.  More often then not, this happens daily.

I'm writing this post as I'm curled up on the sofa with a hot water bottle and dosed up on Mefenamic Acid and Nortriptyline, I have just come back from a night away where my pain was so unbearable that I was screaming in pain and sat on the toilet with intense sickness and diarrhoea.   

I take a minimum of 11 pain relief medications every single day and can find that I need to just sleep, lie in bed and cry the pain out.  Not a sympathy comment, just the daily realities of endometriosis.


Here is a body map that shows where my pain occurs.  As you can see, it's spread all over my body.  The pain dominates my left side and can be so severe that I struggle to sit up or even walk a small distance.  Endometriosis truly controls my life.  The pain causes such severe anxiety.  I constantly worry what people think when I bail on plans or miss another University lecture because I can't even manage to bend over to put socks on.  I worry about being too far from a hospital or walk-in centre just incase I have another bad spurt.  I worry about bleeding so much that I faint and no one will be around.  

 Currently, my pain is manageable outside of my period.  I'm hoping that a few more cycles from my latest surgery I will see more positive effects and feel less pain.  Here is to hoping!

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