Hi y’all. So this is a very long story and I apologize ahead of time for some of the things I’m typing I just need to get my anger out. I’ve been on birth control since I was 12. I wasn’t sexually active till 19 but my periods were so bad they didn’t know what else to do for me so they put me on the pill at 12. Flash forward to 16 and the pill doesn’t work anymore. Everything is irregular all over again. So I decided to try the nexplanon (sp?) during this time I was also diagnosed with PCOS. So they kept me on the pull and added the bar to my arm. Unfortunately that didn’t work, the pain during my period was severe and I couldn’t manage to get out of bed. I also bled for 9 months straight before my doctor decided that it needed to come out. So I was back on the pill for a couple more years until I went to college. I asked the doctor about an IUD, I had Liletta. And I didn’t mind it. I still got my period but it wasn’t as heavy just painful, which I could manage. I then went to the doctor again to explain the pain I was in and was told “it’s just your PCOS and you need to lose weight” 🙄 so I accepted it and continued on until my 24th birthday that I spent in the ER because one of the many cysts I had on my left ovary ruptured. I had never felt a pain like that before and I didn’t know what to do. The attending doctor at the time told me it was superficial pain and to just breathe. I begged him to do an ultrasound and he finally came back into the room and said “you were right, there’s nothing that can be done so follow up with your OB” which I did. Again. And they told me it’s just a side effect of PCOS. Flash forward again to June of this year. I thought I was dealing with another bad cyst, so I went to my primary care doctor, who then ordered me an ultrasound. She then told me to get the results read by my OB. The OB sent me out for more testing (this was early august) and then called me frantically saying that I needed to see a gynecological oncologist because the mass that I had looked cancerous but she wasn’t sure. So then I started seeing a new doctor, who asked if she could go in and do a laparoscopic surgery to see what was bothering me to much. In my follow up appointment, she told me I had endometriosis, and needed to see a specialist. Which I did. She then told me I have STAGE 4 ENDOMETRIOSIS, and didn’t understand why it wasn’t treated earlier in my life. She wasn’t able to give me many options because of how bad it is. Long story short, I’m 25 years old and had a medically recommended hysterectomy on Tuesday. Like 11/15. She also ended up removing my appendix, and scraping off endometriosis from my abdominal wall, colon and bladder. This is all because MY DOCTOR WOUDLN’T LISTEN TO ME. I just need some kind of “it’s going to be okay” because all my friends and family are saying this but they don’t understand. I’m just done.