Is There a Doctor or Nurse in the House?

[Catsmeow]

I never wanted to trouble my brothers and sisters in Christ with this but I'm so desperate at this point, oh heck...I can't keep this inside anymore.

Patsy and Gary already know my fears...fears that go beyond Rheumatoid Arthritis and Fibromyalgia.

Since I've lost my appetite and grown exceedingly weak and felt my life slipping away, (not to mention abnormal hemoraging), I've tried and tried to get the VA to take this seriously.

I had a uterus removed 18 years ago and the pathology showed cancerous lesions that hadn't spread yet. Timing was great.

My mother's mother (grandmother) had Cancer of the Uterus. Right now I'm showing abnormally large ovaries, *(which I didn't have removed; only the uterus)... and a bloody discharge at times. It's very painful.

All the medications they've used on me have done nothing.

The OBGYN at the VA just blew me off and said, "Well, maybe we'll have you talk to a Urology Doctor"...(IN DECEMBER!)

I have a huge family history of cancer: liver (2 times), breast cancer and uterine cancer and then my own cancerous cells that were removed in time.

Now I have painful swollen ovaries (even though I'm menapausal) and unusual bleeding. They can't find the ovaries on the Sonogram.

A barium CT Scan showed enlarged ovaries...but the sonogram can't even find the ovaries.

I am in pain and heaven help me if I sneeze. I feel like my inerds are becoming my out-erds.

God, I'm so sick and tired of being sick, weak, apathetic toward food and just wanting to sleep.

I hurt and burn *internally. Diflucan (I have to take TWO of them) help for about 1 week or 2 and then it's back with a vegence.

I had a pap smear...evidently no cervical cancer but ovaries are another story.

If I have a family history of cancer in my immediate family with almost everyone; am menapausal and have a severely prolapsed bladder and irregular bleeding and constant burning pain....

Can anyone understand what this means medically?

The doctors seemed like they got their degrees from a mail order company and I'm told there's NO way to tell if you have ovarian cancer.

I wouldn't care except that in 2 years I've grown so weak, apathetic and my appetite has declined so much, something aint right.

I'm so sick of doctors blowing me off and just saying, "Yeah, yeah...blah, blah..."

Then they refer you to some distant urologist next year.

I'm miserable and sick. I've been "on fire" internally for 6 months - not fun.

Sonograms have failed. THEY CANNOT EVEN LOCATE THE OVARIES the CT Scan picked up with the Barium contrast.

Medical people...any feedback?

I'm told I'm out of luck. If I want to just know if I have cancer of the ovaries, I need to just have them removed.

That still doesn't satisfy the problem of constant pain, swelling and burning.

Anyone with medical knowledge? I'm agnry, frustrated and despondent. Oh, how I long to hear something from someone with medical wisdom.

PLEASE don't send me to WEBMD or whatever...been there.

I need some real life experience and wisdom...Thanks if ANYONE can help!

[Catsmeow]

I also want to make a formal confession because I'm so tired of really trying so hard to be "happy, cheerful, loving and supportive".

To anyone who can handle this: I'm scared. I hurt and honestly, I have asked God to please let me die. I don't want to live.

I try to walk in the Spirit and do everything the Bible says and keep a good attitude but it's bleeding, pain, weakness, nausea, muscle pain, inability to work or function.......

In 2 years I've gone from Aeorobics and Weights to hardly being able to walk without a walker or wheechair or cane. Why? I'm not crippled. I'm so weak, it hurts to walk or stand.

Stamina? Forget it. I have zero.

The hardest thing I do is type on the computer and care for the 2 cats. My husband is carrying the weight, (God bless him).

I don't know whether I'll get some lecture but I have to just lay the cards on the table, folks. There are times when I just want to "check out".

I'm not suicidal ...that's a sin. I just beg God to grant permission to take me home.

This is called, "Getting real with people"....and they can think whatever they will.

I'm so tired of pain and misery and everything shutting down in my body.

Oh, God ....I wish they'd find cancer, give me a year or two sentence and let me die. I wouldn't even fight it.

That's really where I'm at.

[stillwaters]

I've no medical knowledge, but I will pray for you. :hug:

[Catsmeow]

I heard once that prayer is never the least you can do...it's the most you can do.

Thank you... Cats

[Ovedya]

Oh, sister.....I just had no idea. I am praying for you even now, and will continue as long as it takes.

I think that Ted is a doctor of some kind. You might want to PM him.

[Guest LCPGUY]

Sure wish I could offer medical advice but obviously I

[our3blessings]

I am so very sorry that you are going through so much pain. I wish there was something that I could tell you. I will be praying for you. :hug:

[AllforJesustheLord]

Are you going to think about getting your ovaries removed then? I want to ask what your name is so I can pray with your name, instead of Catsmeow. The Doctors do not know what it is yet, or do they?

[GymRose]

Cats my heart aches for you, the only thing I can say medically is that you NEED and more over DESERVE better and more urgent medical care.

Dan and I will be praying. I like AllforJesus would really like to use your christian name to lift you up........................ I know that God whos I am talking about if I say Cats but if it is ok could you let me know too.

Also I'd like to ask your permission to let our Home Group know what is happening to you and have them lift you up in prayer as well.

I don't know what else to say other than to let you know I understand your feelings and your frame of mind and it's amazing that you can be so open and honest.

:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:

[sail2awe]

Praying God's Will to youward.

Jam 5:10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

Jam 5:11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

Jam 5:12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.

Jam 5:13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

Jam 5:14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:

2Co 5:1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

2Co 5:2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

2Co 5:3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

2Co 5:4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

2Co 5:5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

2Co 5:6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

2Co 5:7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

2Co 5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

2Co 5:9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

2Co 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

2Co 5:11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.

The point of posting those verses is to remind everyone that to be true to walk in spirit is much more real and true than anything made in this temporary place, and we are all witnesses in Christ together.

Much Love And Prayers In God's Will To Youwards