Long time no journal!

So recently I was diagnosed with fibroids, PCOS, endomitriosis, andadenomyosis. This cocktail of conditions had basically left me lethargic, foggy-headed, anemic, and in severe pain for the last few years. Most days I was in too much pain to even get around much. I spent most of my days in a fog just waiting for each day to be over because I was so fatigued that I didn't have the energy to do much of anything. My periods were very irregular and were VERY heavy, could last weeks or months, and left me with a fairly bad iron deficiency and regular anemia because of how much I was bleeding. My periods would also cause my mental health to plummet. I was often so cripplingly depressed that I'd spend all day crying and trying my hardest to find any excuse not to kill myself because of how bad the hormones were ravaging my mind.

My quality of life was absolute shit, to say the least.

Thankfully with this diagnosis I've also started treatment. It was very frustrating trying to get help and having so many doctors brush me off and not believe things were as bad as they were but FINALLY I was able to find a doctor who took me seriously and was able to find out what was wrong.

I'm currently on oral hormonal medication while I wait on an appointment to get an IUD. Turns out the treatment for my conditions was hormonal birth control and I could have had it years ago had doctors just listened and taken me seriously lol. But even after only a few weeks on hormones I'm already in significantly less pain, my mood and bleeding is regulated again, and my mind is clear for the first time in years.

This is the main reason I haven't been active as much here or really drawn more than a small handful of pictures in recent years. It wasn't until I had started taking my meds that I realized just how sick I was and how much time had really passed because, like I said, I was in a fog most days.

But I'm feeling much better now and I want very badly to start easing back into art. I miss drawing and interacting with people <3