It is. My allergies are also much better near the ocean.

Another reason to visit me in the winter!

I'm making a list, Laura.

Someone remind me not to read the comments. I was favorting a tweet about RBG being the first Supreme Court justice to perform a marriage of a gay couple, and the comments are disgusting.

Ugh. I forgot how much I hate hate hate ovarian cysts. At least, i *think* that's what's causing the miserable pain in my right hip that can't be remediated by massage, chiropractic, accupuncture, or drugs. Maybe it's something different, I've had many and they never hurt all that much until they ruptured....but this is 24-7 misery for weeks. And i've gained 5 lbs in the last wk (after slowly and steadily losing weight the last 10 months.) Insult on top of injury. And why do I have to wait 8 days for a diagnostic ultrasound and xrays with my history? Stooopid US health system, only one radiology in town covered by my (pretty fantastic) insurance and of course they were all booked my last weekend (mon/tues/wed.) 3 weeks now without a decent night's sleep, getting annoying. Muscle relaxer alone not working (which is shocking, usually a full dose buys me 11 hrs of quality sleep.). Pain killers and anti inflamatories alone not working. Ambien alone not working. The combination that seems to buy me more than 30 min ununterrupted sleep is muscle relaxer + vicodon + ambien (of course that only works for 4 hrs, then the vicodon has to be topped off.) I take drugs specifically for the purpose of NOT ovulating, so how did this happen? Modern pharmaceuticals are failing me. *sigh* Apparently it's a shitty time of year for general malaise. Sorry for venting here, can't do it where family members might see and get panicky. I've survived dozens of these fuckers, one more won't break me. But not being able to ride my bike from the pain is breaking my heart just a little and the lack of cardio is almost certainly contributing to the general downward spiral of hating everything.

Ugh erin, that's a whole lot of ouch right here.

Oh Erin, I'm so sorry. I wish you swift diagnosis and relief.

erin, that's a whole lot of suck right there. I wish there were some magic words I could say that would ease the pain, but alas, there aren't.

I had recurring ovarian cysts, and ended up getting an ovary removed, and a cyst on the remaining ovary lanced. It came back.

Is it always on the same ovary? My hysterectomy was the best thing I've done, but of course, I had a slew of other problems with my repro system, and I was quite A-OK with not wishing to have children. I completely have sympathy, erin; it's awful. I was on Vicodin for 4 days/month for 4 years, and the pain, bleeding and utter hormonal insanity was awful.

It's always the same one. Always. I've many times wondered if i could just fish around in there and yank it out myself. Far more trouble than it's worth. If it is what that (and what else would it be with the super localized pain and extra special bleeding) maybe it's time to talk about taking it out. Back when i had the first one (20 years ago! Erhmagard, i'm oldz!) a full hysterectomy was recommended but that seemed a little overzealous. The left one is just fine and causes me no problems and my uterus, while useless to me, doesn't cause me any trouble being there. That right one, though, grrrr. I would rather have it in a mason jar of formaldeyde on a bookshelf where i could keep a watchfull eye on it. Up to no good, i tell you.

I can say that if you have great health insurance, an oophrectomy sounds like it might be the best solution. I mean, I'm not a gyno, but if it keeps coming back, then I say yank!

Mine involved a two day hospital stay, and 4 weeks off. But YOvaryMV, since I had a grapefruit sized cyst on the one they took out, and they opened me up to lance cysts on the other ovary. Recovery was still fairly easy. I was...mmm...33? 34? and they wanted me to try and keep an ovary, but then Ovary #2 got all swelly, and the uterus was still all Evil Overlord, so 2 years later, I was all BEGONE REPRO ORGANS!