Living with Chronic Pain
I’ve been put down, cussed at, and kicked all because of my chronic pain that I’ve been living with for the past four years now. You’d be surprise who the culprit is. It’s me. I constantly belittle myself for not being able to struggle through the pain some days. Then you put anxiety and depression issues of the pain issues and you have one big ball of wonderful. Not! That’s the life I’ve been living with ever since I found out that I have PCOS, or polycystic ovarian syndrome. Let’s get real for a moment. You don’t want to hear the gory details of my life, but I’m going to tell you anyway. Ever since I was in middle school, my periods were irregular. We never thought anything of it, because my mother’s were the same way. They were very painful at times, sometimes causing me to miss school because I didn’t want to be there while I was in so much pain. I’d fake sick to my parents so they’d let me stay home; I didn’t think they’d let me stay jus...