Keep your health in check!

Mission #3 : Keep you health in check

As some of you might already know, I've had multiple medical issues since the birth of my youngest 5 ½ months ago. I haven't had the best track record when it comes to postpartum issues and my health. With my eldest, I had to endure 4 mastitis and lanrangitis that lasted a good 4 weeks and now with this last pregnancy my liver and gall bladder have been acting up and I am now facing issues with my digestive tract. As soon as I had given birth to my youngest I had very elevated Iron levels that took over 3 months to go back down to normal. It's a condition called Hemochromatosis. It's actually not that difficult to deal with but can cause long term problems if left untreated. Your body absorbs double the amount of iron into the blood and it pools in muscles and joints causing pain, it also puts stress on the liver because it attemps to filter it out of your blood (causing long term issues such as liver inflamation, failure or cancer). Being a woman (and having that montly gift ;-) urg... these levels often regulate themselves because of regular blood loss. Now this will become more of an issues as I leave my childbearing years later in life, which will require monthly or even weekly blood donations to keep levels normal. I also found out that I had this little mass in my liver and according to professionals hasn't grown in the last 3 months and is not of concern for now untill it grows... No stress whatsoever I say.... Anyways, I also had to address a certain situation with my GI tract, I will not go into details for those of you who really hate hearing about that kind of stuff... I met with the gastroenterologist the other week (not the first time for me, since the age of 16 have had issues with ulcers and poor digestion). The issue has become more of a concern now because it is more « severe » in nature let's call it and he is sending me for 3 really « unpleasant » tests. I will not describe LOL but will give you names and if you wish to research go for it.... Gastroscopy (my 4th one so far, been there done that), « intesting Grele » and « Colon contrast double ». Basically, ALL of my GI tract this time around instead of just the stomac.... Lovely.

I think it's important to my overall mental health to keep my general health in check and find out what the heck is going on. I have never seen a person who is in a lot of pain multiple times a week be a « happy » person. So in an atempt to help my mental self, I need to fix or find out the issues I have with my physical self. I have always had medical issues with my GI tract but now it's getting worst and it's time to take care of me. Even if it means a battery of tests that will be more than « unpleasant » to go through....

Cheers to health!