[FunkPumpkin]

Originally Posted by LadyCPlum ↗

I feel like I'm screwed if I meet someone who wants children, since I have had a hysterectomy

True, but then there's a bloke like me who has two teenagers and doesn't want any more children. So what you see as a minus, someone like me sees that as a plus.

[LadyCPlum]

Originally Posted by FunkPumpkin ↗

True, but then there's a bloke like me who has two teenagers and doesn't want any more children. So what you see as a minus, someone like me sees that as a plus.

Yes but I've always wanted children, my OWN children, who I gave birth to. Unfortunately, Stage IV endometriosis and the years of continuous and excruciating pain forced me to make a decision I never thought I'd have to make. I'm sort of like House, I wonder about the choice I made, the chance of having children but being in continuous pain (which I took Percocet for, it was so bad) or finally being able to get out of bed and live a pain free life...I'm still not sure I made the right decision.

[FunkPumpkin]

Originally Posted by LadyCPlum ↗

Yes but I've always wanted children, my OWN children, who I gave birth to. Unfortunately, Stage IV endometriosis and the years of continuous and excruciating pain forced me to make a decision I never thought I'd have to make. I'm sort of like House, I wonder about the choice I made, the chance of having children but being in continuous pain (which I took Percocet for, it was so bad) or finally being able to get out of bed and live a pain free life...I'm still not sure I made the right decision.

I'm very sorry to hear that you had such horrible pain and felt forced into a decision. When your pain is unbearable and not yet treated, you don't have a life. Before I was what I considered "properly medicated", I had about 8 months of utter agony. As odd as it sounds, I was lucky to be between jobs during that period; otherwise, I'd probably been forced to take a medical leave.

I'm fortunate that I only have to take gabapentin, ibuprofen, tramadol, and non-narcotic muscle relaxers for my pain condition. My friend has an inoperable back condition that has her on morphine. While she's a LOT more lucid and active than other people I've known on Schedule 2 opiates, it still takes a toll on her. Chronic pain makes us the best weather predictors in our area.

When I look back on my life with my kids, I'm glad we had them when we were in our 20s. They take a lot of effort that I'm not sure a fibromyalgic forty-something would want to try and take on. That and college expenses for my two is more than enough convincing that I'm done with acquiring any more children in my life.

[LadyCPlum]

Originally Posted by FunkPumpkin ↗

I'm very sorry to hear that you had such horrible pain and felt forced into a decision. When your pain is unbearable and not yet treated, you don't have a life. Before I was what I considered "properly medicated", I had about 8 months of utter agony. As odd as it sounds, I was lucky to be between jobs during that period; otherwise, I'd probably been forced to take a medical leave.

I'm fortunate that I only have to take gabapentin, ibuprofen, tramadol, and non-narcotic muscle relaxers for my pain condition. My friend has an inoperable back condition that has her on morphine. While she's a LOT more lucid and active than other people I've known on Schedule 2 opiates, it still takes a toll on her. Chronic pain makes us the best weather predictors in our area.

When I look back on my life with my kids, I'm glad we had them when we were in our 20s. They take a lot of effort that I'm not sure a fibromyalgic forty-something would want to try and take on. That and college expenses for my two is more than enough convincing that I'm done with acquiring any more children in my life.

Gabapentin doesn't make you feel dopey? I'm on it right now for chronic (another chronic condition, I love it!) headaches, and I feel weird, off-balance, I forget words and lose my train of thought way too easily now...

[FunkPumpkin]

Nope. The muscle relaxant orphenadrine (brand-name Norflex) made me loopy for the first day, after that nothing. Gabapentin didn't mess me up... in fact, I'd be fuct without its place in my pain-relief cocktail.

Tramadol is the one I watch out for. Once upon a time, before fibromyalgia manifested, I went on Zoloft for a brief period as I was navigating through a particularly bad spell with my now ex-wife. Zoloft makes you fuzzy and has serious sexual side-effects. After a while, I realized I didn't need to be on it.

But if I take the max-allowed dose of tramadol, those nasty sexual side-effects come back. At high doses, tramadol not only acts as a mild opiod, but also has SSRI characteristics. Tramadol is my "break through" pain reliever. I treat it thusly and just grit my teeth most other days.

[FunkPumpkin]

LadyCPlum, perhaps we should take this to PM lest we hijack this thread.

[Dodecahedron]

The question asked was, "how important are tits?"

Well seeing as they were her tits, and she chose to live over keeping them, and then to not go through further surgeries and the pain to have fake ones somehow added to her already ravaged body, I'd say not that fucking important at all. And seeing as they *were* her tits, I think she gets final say

[bleh12345]

I wouldn't care at all. You are very immature if you care about breasts that much

[GiJoe7898]

Originally Posted by FunkPumpkin ↗

LadyCPlum, perhaps we should take this to PM lest we hijack this thread.

please, you kids go get a room.

[squirtgun]

she looks kinda fat...