A Smack Across the Pelvis - or Endometriosis Awareness Month

March means that it is Endometrosis Awareness Month. I have been meaning to write a blog post to mark the occasion, but life, and um, endo, have gotten in the way.

 Despite having had a hysterectomy 6 years ago, I still have endo symptoms. Nowhere near as often or as badly, but, they do rear up from time to time. And sometimes it sneaks up and smacks me across the pelvis in the form of a 'phantom period' like it did a few weeks ago.

 As I don't have regular periods anymore, it is harder to keep track of when it might hit me. Often the only sign is over whelming, bone crushing fatigue in the week leading up to it. It's easy to pass this off as something else, especially as fatigue is as much a symptom of Crohn's as it is of endo. But it is definitely a problem with both conditions, and often the most unspoken of symptom.

 A friend of mine recently posted this on Facebook, and although it is written about Endo-Fatigue, it equally applies to any number of other chronic illnesses. It is one of the best descriptions of that bone crushing fatigue that I have ever read - http://survivingendometriosis.com/2014/11/25/seven-reasons-why-endo-fatigue-causes-so-much-trauma-to-its-sufferers-2/

 And on that note, I need to sleep. Not that I'm likely to get any, thanks to the bloody fatigue.