After Six Doctors, I Became My Own Advocate
After years of doctors and a hormone pellet she regrets, she stopped handing over control and learned to manage her own health daily. Here is what that looks li
I Take It From Here
Post 10 of 11
Three months. That's how long it took for the pellets to burn out of me. Three months of waiting for a chemistry I chose to finally let go of my body.
And when it did — when the gray started to lift and the weight started to move, almost immediately. I felt the first flicker of me coming back — I made a decision I should've made years earlier.
I take it from here.
Not out of anger. Not to prove a point. Out of something much simpler: nobody on this earth is going to hold my body as carefully as I will. Six doctors taught me that. So I stopped handing the wheel to people who wouldn't slow down, and I put my own hands on it.
Here's what that actually looks like now.
Worth knowing: I know my numbers. My real ones.Not just the plummeted ones from a bad season, and not the blasted ones from a pellet I never should've said yes to— I know the number where I felt like hell, and I know the number where I feel like myself. I have a map of my own body now, drawn in my own blood. Do you understand what a gift that is, after two years of being a stranger to my own chemistry?