Medical check up again

Anyone reading my blog might think I'm a pretty sick person. I mean literally sick as in diseased. I've in the past year, had to go to 3 different hospitals to check on my knee, my colon and my ovaries! But in all, I'm not as sick as I sound. I actually look normal and feel normal!

My knee is I would say about 80% recovered. On days I wear the 'wrong' pair of shoes or walk in a way which might twist my ankles, my knee starts to act up. I'd say I'm done with physiotherapy. This may apply to my case only but I pretty much stopped going for my physio sessions and my knee actually felt less painful! It's not fully recovered. Let's just say, squat loos are no longer on my list of favourites (even if I think they are cleaner than soiled toilet seats)!

My colon has been given a clean bill of health. No apparent cysts even though I had several bleeding episodes that scared the sh*t out of me. I have internal piles and despite having them ligated, the colon doctor advised me this morning that they would likely return. Suddenly, I'm thinking of Arnie's "I'll be back!".
Ok, only internal piles. I can live with that. So my backside is still in pretty good shape, considering.

Ah, my ovaries. My womb. You're as irregular as it gets. I DID get started on the birth control pills and I'm on my 5th day. Side effects?

Day One - Sudden pain/twitch in heart area. Came and went. Sudden cramp in left ovary area. Came and went.

Day Two - Boobs hurt. Limbs hurt. Knee hurting more obviously today. Other joints seem to hurt too when walking. What the heck is going on? Notice dark clouds and perhaps it's not the pills but the weather after all.

Day Three - Boobs still hurt. Arms ache. Legs ache. Is my back aching? Is it my mattress? My sleeping position? Or is it the darn pills? Sudden pain/twitch in heart area again. Came and went.

Day Four - Boobs ache. Knee hurts.

Day Five - Knee hurts. Joints seem to still be aching.

General observations:
- Don't feel the cold / heat like I did with Norethisterone.
- Do feel like coughing immediately after taking pill, just like with Norethisterone.
- Boobs don't seem to have grown any bigger. Ha ha.

I had a medical check up this morning with the doc over my recent colonoscopy and I had continued taking the pill the past few days because I didn't want a period to arrive now if I had stopped it suddenly. Speaking of which, when one is on the 21 day pill, did you know that the bleeding you get during the 7 day break isn't a real menstrual flow at all? Simplistically put, what happens is you're not ovulating at all. No eggs are released because the hormones in the pills are making sure they don't. (I have something to add to this later*). If one continues taking the pill without a break, you wouldn't even see a monthly flow. The 7 day break is to allow you to bleed so that you will psychologically feel that you are having your menses.
So for me, if I was having irregular menses, this doesn't make sense at all. At least in the past, I was having REAL menstrual periods on my own. Ok, I'm not a doctor, nothing of the above I've said is medically justifiable. I'm just rambling on and on in my own thoughts.

*Now, what I wanted to say about the eggs. If you're on a birth control pill and your ovaries DO get released and a sperm DOES meet the egg to fertilize it, the hormones in the pill will try its best to ensure that your womb lining is undesirable enough so that the fertilized egg can't implant itself on the wall. It just gets flushed out.
It's not my job to tell you what that means. You may not even know that it has happened. But now..... you know, that it CAN happen.

Sheesh. I didn't tell you that so I could judge you. I wrote that so that I could go ponder it myself.
Now that I don't have a check up lined up anytime soon, I should be able to stop taking the pill. Or should I? I asked God and I received His answer but I'm being stubborn. Life is complicated sometimes. Or is it us who complicate life?

Update 29/10/10 : Stopped taking the pill today. Decided to let my body be free from drugs for a while and to heck with irregular cycles.