Before leaving my home country. Not only did I have severe headaches, but I also felt a small lump under my armpit and knew it was a lymph node. I contacted my doctor and was sent for a blood test. After that, I saw a gynecologist.
I had an ultrasound of my ovaries and was told there was nothing to worry about because they couldn’t find anything. Essentially, I was told that I didn’t need to worry about breast cancer at the moment (even though they didn’t even check for it), and it was explained that my body simply wasn’t ready to conceive due to low progesterone levels. I told them I didn’t want to start hormone therapy, but that was their only solution at the time.
I left it at that, thinking I could reduce my stress and everything would go back to normal. For a while, I felt better and thought I was winning. Until I realised, damn it, my period isn’t coming back. With each passing year, my periods have become less and less frequent. Now, over the last two years, I’ve only had them 2–3 times.
I thought, hmmm, this must be due to my diet and lack of exercise, etc. I started searching Google to see what other people with the same symptoms had said. I read that people said there was nothing to worry about, that I just needed to change my diet and exercise more, exactly what I had thought myself. I’m a nurse, and studying hormones didn’t help me at all. I had no idea what was going on with me.
I started going to Muay Thai classes and consulted a nutritionist. Now that I felt stronger and better every day, I thought, “Yes, we can do this.” I sensed that something was changing, and I thought, “Yay, my period will be back soon.”
Unfortunately, the reality was different. My period didn’t return. Now my nutritionists have helped me take the next step. We scheduled a blood test.
Once I got a referral from my doctor, I had some blood tests done. I waited a week and then went to pick up the results. I looked them over, and almost everything was normal, except for my prolactin level. It was very high. I felt I had to do something right away. I booked an appointment with the doctor. I was lucky because I got an appointment for the same day and only had to wait half an hour.
The doctor’s words came as a shock to me. She said I might have a brain tumor, which is usually associated with high prolactin levels. I thought, “No, that can’t be true,” but my body was telling me it was. So I had to book an MRI scan in Perth, since it’s not possible to do one in Karratha.
Before the test, I was having a really hard time. I cried every day. I thought, “Oh my God, what am I going to do? How am I going to tell my family?” At the same time, I told myself, “You don’t know yet; you have to wait for the results. Only then can you make any decisions. For now, you need to calm down. You will figure it out.”
So I did.
With love,
The Human Goddess
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