Well, November 2nd 2025, I woke up in pain, as I did every day for as long as I can remember. It was “My life”, Menopause was wreaking havoc on my body and my mind, all the different aches and pains were added on to my daily “what is the reason for this pain” question of the day. Progressively, now that I think of it, I had been having harsher pain in my lower back when I woke up, always had a migraine when I woke up, and my belly (I assume was my intestines) was always very tight and painful, my assumption was that i needed to go, ya know, defecate. Because, when I did finally empty my bowels, I felt much better. And a side note again, I look back to the last few weeks and realize that my appetite was trimming down, I was eating less at meal time because I was feeling full quicker. Painfully full after just a few bites. Anyway, this day was Oh so different from any others in the past few years.
As I awoke, and felt the usual pains, I went to sit up and felt a sharp pain in my lower right quadrant of my abdomen. I immediately grabbed it and pushed in thinking I could make it feel better, instead what I found was a very large, elongated oval shaped (The size of maybe a large sweet potato) BULGE in my stomach just under the muscle. I could move it around slightly, so, obviously, due to my history, I assumed I was “Packed” and needed to go to the bathroom and defecate. I did, several times. As this was now my Normal, 3-6 trips to the bathroom to defecate a bit over the period of 3 hours, each time urinating as well. Thinking back on the last two years, my bathroom visits in the middle of night went from 1-2, to now being 4-5 times a night, always to urinate and always resulting in leg cramps.
Anyway, I sat on this little tad bit of an issue, stressed about it just a little for the entire day, ended up not being able to sleep, I was constantly laying down to feel the “Lump”, I guess I was hoping that maybe if I pushed out some more “Poo” It would go away. It didn’t. The next morning, again, more severe pain than what I was used to. I did my routine 3-4 times of going to the bathroom for 3 hours, but felt worse physically, my gut was just aching constantly.