it turned out, unlike how my mum thought, having extremely irregular and intermittently ultra heavy fucky periods that would take single giant chunks of womb lining out at once and then disappear again for a few months is not within the normal range of period symptoms and points to something being up!

hospital looked inside the thing and found that it was just chock full of polyp growths that are not cancerous atm, but will turn into cancer "eventually" if left untreated

so they're waiting on the results of an mri they did on it last week before they can book me in, but it's looking likely that im going to get a hysterectomy sometime in the next couple months

in the broad view this is really good! bc finally they acknowledged something is wrong down there and have a treatment plan after years of different gps brushing me off, i don't want kids, ive wanted it gone for years anyway but since the reason isn't Trans Reasons i can get it done on the nhs

and mum is willing to come over regularly and help with household stuff for a couple months while i recover from the surgery at home, it's way easier for her to help with it now that i only live 30mins drive away instead of like 90

but i have never had a major surgery before so it's still a bit scary! so i've been a bit stressed about it and that's been the main thing on my mind lately

pls send your energy to the underfunded nhs so they can bring back the mri results and i can at least have some dates confirmed for the hospital stay, i think i'll feel less wound up about it then

oh jesus best of luck it all goes well

//hugs

hugs I am having surgery next week for similar reasons so I get it for sure

I hope they get back to you soon with the info you need to move forward it is definitely very daunting

yeah hopefully... the mri was last week and they said typically results are about 2 weeks but they still need to actually book me back in with the gyno consultant after that, and then he needs to confirm whether it looks like surgery or not

i have an update on this! surgery is going ahead, haven't gotten the exact date yet but was told it should be in about a month and i should get the letter confirmation within the week

still a little nerve wracking but family is fully supportive, they don't know im trans but they do know i've never wanted kids and have always had questionable periods that caused me distress even before they started acting up this much, so they didn't need convincing thankfully

so i'll be relieved to put this uterus nonsense behind me Soon(tm)

good luck with the surgery, it sucks but you will get through