#oophorectomy

Wdym I'll regret it? Wdym "your husband might want kids"?????? I AM AN INFERTILE ASEXUAL LESBIAN!!!!!!!!

I am an adult and I should be able to make my own choices about my body.

Hello, denizens of Tumblr. My name is Francine—though you may also know me as Faust, F, or BanjoriBanjori. Hi. Hello. I am here to make a request. I am making this post to extend an offer for those whom it applies;

If you or someone you love is soon to have their uterus and/or ovaries removed, I will pay you for it once it is out and provide a P.O. Box for you to send it to me.

To clarify, I will not pay for the procedure in which the extraction is done. I work at a Dairy Queen. I cannot pay for medical bills with a Dairy Queen salary. As that is the case, I will only pay for shipping fees. I will, however, fulfill any extra costs that come shipping to America (thanks, Trump (sarcasm)). All I ask is that you put it in the box (ideally in a chilled, sanitized container) and send it my way.

I am not an organ trafficker attempting to wrangle unsuspecting tumblr users into my business; I just want these particular ones for my own purposes. Think of it as a commission.

I understand that the uterus and ovaries may be removed separately in separate surgical instances. If you can only provide me with one or the other, that is fine.

If you are interested in my offer, please do not hesitate to send me a message through Tumblr’s instant messaging and/or askbox features. If you are not interested, please reblog and share this posts so that I have a better chance at obtaining these vital organs (vital in that they are important for me to obtain). Thank you.

Maybe a little extra time to process before the final plunge wouldn't be a bad thing.

It feels so stupid. My womb is gone. Cervix gone. Left ovary gone. All that remains is the right ovary, a treacherous painful thing floating uninhibited in uninhabited space. Wrecking carnage as it pleases. Tearing tissue apart, creating more, releasing eggs into nothingness.

And that makes my heart clench, just a little. Those eggs. Almosts. Maybes. 'in a better place, at a better time's. I don't even have anything to lose by losing them, there's nowhere they could grow. There's nothing I could do for them. They are my 3,000 little nothing's. They could have been somethings, but those somethings would suffer.

A full hysterectomy in 3 parts, starting in 2017. Almost 10 years to get it all out. I wish they'd have just taken it all from the get.

Everything I read says that it is best to start the hormones within as brief a period from the ovaries removal surgery as possible for best results. I hoped to manage it in 4-5 weeks from my last (actually The Last, lol, that's still so weird to think) period, but obviously that's not happening. It should, of course, still be fine 🙂 I'm just miffed that for all that I planned for this lots ahead of time, the timing of everything will still be off target. But I wasn't the one responsible for doing the tests promptly so... wtv.

It does also mean that the past couple of days I've been playing the game of "Is it the summer weather, or am I experiencing mild-ish menopausal heat flashes?" 🫠. By now I'm fairly convinced it's the second option. Which is almost good, because that means that I can blame my recent sleeping issues on it and can hope it will get better once I get on the HRT.

Here’s some background for context:

I’m a late 20s menstruating human who is seriously considering oophorectomy and/or hysterectomy. It’s honestly a last resort because the side effects sound absolutely horrifying, but I don’t know how to go on like this.

I’ve tried a variety of pain medications

Ibuprofen 800mg,

sodium diclofenac both 75 and 150 and as suppositories, oral, shots (in my butt cheek T.T) and IV

Cocktails of voltaren + buscopan

Pamprin (this worked for a bit on its own which is honestly surprising now that I know it’s just beefed up paracetamol but yh it doesn’t work anymore and it makes me feel like shit)

Then I had to cocktail it with ibuprofen

Cocodamol (nothing feels shittier than this fella right here; its only benefit is that I didn’t have to eat to take it)

Tramadol (I honestly don’t remember how this went)

All that most of these have done is destroy the lining of my stomach.

Things I have not tried:

Any kind of contraceptive

Conceiving and/or delivering a child

Removing my reproductive organs

There’s a family history of endo and I have had ovarian cysts in the past (shout-out to my college roommate for taking me to the ER when one ruptured that one time) so I am by no means the paragon of perfect health but I’m like these can’t be my only options right???

My psychiatrist thinks I should get a lap done, but it doesn’t really make sense to me that I have to have surgery in order to be diagnosed. Like the expense! The trauma! For what? Like what is a diagnosis gonna do for me if these are still my only options???

Like I’ll admit that I’m a little ignorant when it comes to all the different BC options. But I feel like I don’t really need additional factors affecting my mental or cardiovascular health.

Sigh! I just feel like I’m at this impasse and I wanted to hear from people with actual lived experience and not from the people whose pockets get lined from pushing these surgeries and drugs.

Tl;dr what has been your experience with treating debilitating dysmenorrhea? Endo? Ovarian cysts? Chronic recurring reproductive pain?

Sincerely,