Emotions all over the place

[Funkonerd]

Hiya I can imagine the majority of people on here can sympathise when I say I feel all over the place at the moment. I suffer with depression and anxiety anyway but I seem to be getting angry alot. I can't help it and it can be over the littlest thing and I feel like I'm losing myself. Could this be tied to endometriosis? Does anyone else get it too? I'm awaiting a laparoscopy for a diagnosis but have had an mri that confirmed 3 cysts, a dermoid, an endemetrioma and just a normal one. I'm in pain everyday, some days are better than others. I want to try and get to the bottom of the anger as its just not like me.

Thanks for reading

[Lunaloves]

Hi 👋

Sorry that you are feeling this way - I completely understand. It’s a lot to deal with and the wait for answers I found to be the worst time. I didn’t find myself getting angry but did find myself very emotional - I would cry over nothing. I felt/feel frustrated when my health takes over my life. I did find that around ovulation/periods that it was worse both pain wise and emotion wise which I put down to my hormones being all over the place.

Are you taking any medication for the pain? While it’s not a solution for everyone, I have found it helpful in taking the edge off on the truly horrendous days.

I’ve also self referred for some counselling support after speaking to a consultant at a previous appointment. So far we’ve talked about having self compassion- showing yourself the same kindness and love you would to somebody else who is struggling and not internalising and beating yourself over the pain etc.

Sending you hugs and hope you feel better soon xx

[Funkonerd in reply to Lunaloves]

Thanks for your reply, it means alot. I only take pain medication if I really need it, I just don't want to take it all the time so try and manage. I definitely agree that it's worse around my period, the week leading up to it and the first few days I'm on are horrendous. I've just started having cbt, only had 1 session so not noticed any difference yet.

Thanks again x

[Petitechili]

I'm sorry you feel this way. It's a terrible thing to have to go through. It feels so unfair that pain is there every day stopping us from doing normal things. Hopefully when you have your surgery and they remove those cysts and any endometriosis, you will notice a big change in your pain. After my first surge y I was great within the 6 weeks. I felt like I had a new lease of life and was able to get back to normal. X

[Funkonerd in reply to Petitechili]

Thank you, I'm really hoping surgery will help. I'm glad it worked for you x

[Petitechili in reply to Funkonerd]

It did for a while, unfortunately I'm 3 surgeries down at this stage. X

[Mugsy5]

I recommend following Trudy Scott on Facebook- taking amino acids helps my mood tremendously

[Funkonerd in reply to Mugsy5]

Thanks will give it a look 🙂

[ferya2]

Hi, I can also relate to this! As I'm sure a lot of people can on here. Its all very well going to the doctors and them telling you 'ahh your hormones might just be all over the place and that may be a cause of your condition ' (which is what I have been told in relation to my own cysts and pelvic problems) but they then don't give you a solution..or anything as to what might have caused it.

I don't know if this would relate to you but if it does in terms of holistic therapies have you tried anything like acupuncture? Or in terms of readings have you looked at any of Gabor Mate's work or Babette Rotheschild's - about how we can store emotions in the body and how it can affect our physical health - if you're going to look at these just make sure you have a look at some of their solution/ body based exercises which can help release emotional stuff rather than just look at causes - so it helps in a balanced way!

[Funkonerd in reply to ferya2]

Thanks for your reply. That is very true about the doctors, last time I rang she just said 'well I don't know what to tell you'. Oh right thanks for that, big help 🙄. I have given up with them now because they just make me more irritable. Not tried acupuncture yet no, had some reflexology and i enjoyed it but didn't notice any difference pain wise. She did say she could tell I keep alot in and don't tell people how I'm feeling, she was 100% right with that. Will look into the things you've mentioned. 🙂