The acupuncturist recommended me ginger tea for the pain and it really does help. The first day of my cycle was awful and I had to come earlier from work because I couldn’t bear staying a minute more. I still don’t know how I drove back home. The following days I could manage the pain with ginger tea, Red Raspberry leaves and warm water bags.
I also have been trying to avoid foods and drinks that can make endometriosis worse, but it is really hard. Almost everything I like affects estrogen. This web site is very informative with you want to start an endometriosis diet: http://www.endo-resolved.com/diet.html
I eliminated almost everything from my diet, except for bread, cheese and wine. How can a woman live without these?
The year is almost ending and a new year always brings hope that everything will be different. I can’t wait for the turn of the year and forget how crazy this year was. Drugs, infertility, surgery and pain shall be in my past.
My New Year’s resolution: exercise more and don’t give up in finding a way to make my endo symptoms disappear.
Wishing you all a great 2012!
I have trouble cutting out the dairy too. I love cheese and ice cream! The wheat is incredibly hard too as it seems like it's in nearly everything! I make a point to buy gluten free bread, but the other snacks we buy are hard to find without wheat so I suck it up.
ReplyDeleteSomething else that's really helped me is taking high doses of fish oil. I take about 3,000 mg a day and it helped me last cycle to manage my endo pain during AF with ibuprofen alone when I normally need high doses/quantities of Percocet.
I was taking fish oil as well, those you buy in the supermarket but my doctor recommend me another one from pharmax. Have you heard of it? I'm waiting for my order to arrive, I guess I will start next week, see if it helps...
ReplyDeleteI used to take a looot of Ibuprofen too. And my RE said it is OK to take it, but I've read so many things about Ibuprofen and infertility that I stopped taking it so arbitrarily and I only have one or two per cycle when the pain is unbearable. Other than that, as I said in the post, I really like the effects of Raspberry leaves and ginger tea, have you tried it?