#menopause speedrun!!!!!

[deathbypufferfish]

So basically a little PSA that tomorrow I'm starting the process to medically induce menopause and shut down my ovaries (a series of shots). The first month of this is likely to be really rough emotionally and physically because I'm going to be speedrunning menopause and in the process dumping a whole lot of hormones at once 😎 This is a very good thing to be happening for me!

But I wanted to let y'all know in case I am less active and not to worry if I am acting less puffer-y. But I don't expect to take a break and even if I do the queue is filled up.

Anyways rip my ovaries you will not be missed! Party at my place to celebrate its death!

#puffer talks #tw medical #not like I'll post vents i dont really do that anyways #it could go fine but im being cautious #setting up a gameplan to keep myself emotionally level #menopause speedrun!!!!! #hot flashes time!!!! #going to put up a piece of paper in my room to remind myself i am menopausing and the world isnt ending

[bittertits]

pre-menopause is WEIRD. apparently instead of cramps, now all of my tendons get fucked. at least this time. next time, who knows!

#menstruation #i SPRAINED MY THUMB BY GRASPING A DOORKNOB IN A NORMAL FASHION #hoping to move through the “pre” phase as quickly as possible #speedrun that shit #jump into menopause with both feet let's goo #i am 38

[theskoomacat]

i am hot and cold at the same time. this shit sucks

#also i haven't had period in almost 1.5 months (i assume due to stress and me unimaginably torturing my body during the exam month) #three cheers for the menopause speedrun #you really don't have to care #tmi/

[gworlinterrupted]

thinking back to the time in like august right after i started t when for like 2 weeks straight i had insane hot and cold flashes and night sweats every day and then it just went away. im convinced i was speedrunning menopause

[operafloozy]

Real Life Update

So I had my hysterectomy and oophorectomy (yeeterus and throwvaries) on Tuesday - first thing in the morning, back home by 3pm. During my pre-op appointment I was told I was going to feel so horrible. I wasn't going to believe that they were going to be willing to send me home, I'd be so tired and nauseated. But honestly? Felt worse after my covid booster. Also, Oxy doesn't really do very much to me - it'll make me tired but it won't even put me out for very long.

The biggest problem so far has been the robot gas pain, but even that's kind of cool because I was operated on by robots?

I will say that I started writing this update on Thursday morning, maybe? It's Saturday night now, and then haven't felt able to spend my conscious brain cells towards writing this since. A lot of feeling fine and then deciding it's naptime.

Surgery, for those who are wondering, involved getting to the right area to the hospital, being immediately sent down to the first floor to actually check in to the hospital, being brought to a tiny alcove, asked to change, and do a pee test by one person, have someone else come in and ask why the first person went in the sequence they did and are told that you have to lay out, have two more people join in and ask you questions in rapid succession like they're speedruning a normal medical appointment check in, while having you hold out your arms and get slathered with something and random things stuck to your body. Then get you on oxygen and continue to ask questions while the surgeon arrives (and the guy on visiting fellowship, and the fourth year medical student), even though they told you you might be a little goofy. Then you get wheeled to a very bright room, have to shimmy over to the operating table, get a mask, and wake up a couple hours later. A nice nurse tells everyone that you're great, you get given some saltines and ginger ale and water, get some stickers taken off of you and are told that you can leave when you can pee. Then you get to have a pharmacist try to explain to you the seriousness of oxycotin while currently on oxy.

(I found two stickers on me afterwards, and then spent a lot Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning double checking.)

I highly recommend wearing a nightshirt for abdominal surgery, fyi. Who cares if you look ridiculous, it's easy to put on/take off when half-conscious, no waistband, and once you get home you don't have to change.

I'm now two potential cancers down (ovarian and endometrial). BRCA1 comes with a higher risk of breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, and melanoma, but two of those (breast cancer and melanoma) have pretty good detections and pancreatic is mostly a non issue. The endometrial cancer risk is potentially unrelated to the other cancer risks, but it was going to become more of an issue post menopause, which starts now for me, so. In any case, there's the probable double masectomy coming up, but otherwise, it's just semi-annual to annual check-ins.

#real life

[chicago-geniza]

me, going thru accidental medication withdrawal bc i forgot 2 recfill a scrip on time, while speedrunning menopause & taking multiple steroids during a record-breaking heat wave: damn seasonal allergies are really hitting worse this year :/

#like yes allergies ARE worse. But Also

[0smorh1za]

The trans experience truly is speedrunning the female experience why am I about to enter menopause at 19

#transmasc #trans talk #i'm happy about it but also. what

[timegearremix]

menopause speedrun

#nsft #maybe??? #not really #im in pain dude

[leiascully]

@scapegrace74-blog replied to your post “What up tumblr today I recorded an episode of Worst Bestsellers.  Also...”

I'm considering changing my Tumblr handle to cw:menstruation. Might I sublicense the rights? ;-)

Anybody who menstruates has the right to complain about in my mind.  

Can I speedrun through menopause?  I’m too young for it, but what if??

#scapegrace74-blog #chitchat #cw: menstruation

[deathbypufferfish]

hey I saw your post about menopause speedrun and I was curious if you're American. I am and I know there are a lot of places here that won't do MEDICALLY BENEFICIAL procedures that affect fertility on women because "what if your husband wants to have a baby" (biggest of eye rolls)

I am and YEAAHHHH. I luckily found an Obgyn who specializes in PMDD who understood and didn't argue at all about anything to do with me having kids. She had literally read all my notes in my entire medical history 😭 I also have gone through almost every birth control pill and patch so this is definitely a decision down the line. I had a pill that was working for a few years but has gradually stopped working more and more.

I don't want kids and never have plus I can't support a pregnancy anyways. TW: suicide | Also to be brutally honest, and as my obgyn pointed out, I can't have kids if PMDD made me end my life anyways. Since suicidal ideation and actions are the biggest danger with PMDD. It truly turns a normally stable mind completely around.

Also I'm not angry at this ask, but I would prefer not to get asks or questions about my health 💗 and I can't give anyone medical advice

#tw medical #tw suicide #puffer answers #ask #tw pregnancy