Corrina is such an asset to the Horror community, let's pull together and give back to someone who has given so much!!
After struggling with extreme pain for 8 years she his finally on the waiting list for the hysterectomy she.so badly needs but unless she can pay for the surgery out of pocket. She will have to wait two more years!!!!
Lets help her get this surgery so she can finally be pain-free and focus on important things...like continuing to be the most badass reviewer in our community!
Please read her story below:
The official term for ‘My Pain’ is “Menorrhagia” (Heavy periods!) Sounds like nothing right? Believe me, it's not! After 3 or 4 years of tests and investigations, doctors could find no reason behind my illness, it's officially "Unexplained pain and heavy bleeding” but for the sake of having something to put on my millions of sick notes, they put it under Menorrhagia! So, with it being unexplained, with there being no cause that they could find, that also meant no known treatment, we had to wing it! And we've been winging it for 8 years now!
It kept getting worse over the years and peaked after about 2 or 3 years. The pain and bleeding was literally 24/7 for the first few years, as was the PMT, I was a raging lunatic, my partner is an absolute angel for sticking around! I have a high pain threshold, but this pain is so intense, it leaves me rolling around in agony, I have burns on my stomach from hot water bottles, and you get to the stage where you would rather end things than continue to suffer the pain anymore. And it would last for days, constantly throbbing and stabbing. Along with that, I couldn't leave the house for fear of the heavy blood loss showing through my clothes. Every time I stood up, I would lose a lot of blood. I could easily get through a pack of sanitary towels a day, and I would black out regularly from loss of blood. I've passed so many blood clots, some the size of my fist!
I must have tried every painkiller going and every tablet to lessen the bleeding, I've tried CBD, which worked for a few months, then didn't have any effect at all, I've used a TENS machine (electric impulse pain relief). I've been lasered, cauterized, snipped, cut and scraped so many times. A year ago I was given an endometrial ablation, which people I'd spoken to had raved about, the best thing they ever did, but for me it just got so much worse. And it's been pretty shit ever since. And now I'm back on pills that don't work. And in pain most days.
7 months after the failed ablation, the surgeon finally agreed to put me forward for a hysterectomy, I was over the moon! Then, he told me it would probably be a 2 year wait! I was devastated!
This operation would mean I can get my life back after 8 years! I could be secure knowing I'm not going to lose my job because of time off sick (I've lost one job because of this, a very good job!) I wouldn't have to worry about having no money for bills. I could leave the house without padding myself out and fearing embarrassing leaks. I could walk with my head held high and my back straight, not doubled over in pain, holding my stomach and grimacing! I could stop taking anti-depressants because 8 years of this shit has got me really down!
Most periods last about a week, my latest has lasted 181 days…….. so far!
