My health issues are kind of on hold until we have better health insurance as far as getting them resolved.  I can't afford anymore testing until we have insurance that will cover it.  My blood pressure and heart rate seem to have normalized, though I still take heart meds (just less of them).  I am still getting severe migraines that make me vomit, I'm trying out different diet and exercise to see if I can somehow lessen them, but in the meantime I'm on narcotic painkillers as well as several preventive medications I take every day.  chemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

Female issues ahead, all gun-shy males can dive off board:

My endometriosis has been a big issue, since even taking additional estrogen has not been able to make my uterine lining stick, and I had to stop taking it because it can raise blood pressure and has been linked to breast cancer.  For two years I've been more or less constantly shedding with only a month or two when it seemed like it was solved.  Someone at church had this problem, but it got so bad that instead of just being kind of anemic like me (I average about 2 units shy) she became very anemia and ill and had to have an emergency cauterization, which leaves the woman without that ability to conceive.  She had already had a child and was older so it wasn't as much of an issue for her, but it would be for me.

Luckily scans of my belly and ovaries don’t show any non-dissolving cysts or tumors, just lots of blood clots.

Last year my gynecologists mentioned options to me, the most extreme being a hysterectomy.  We’ve gone through all the other options (at least all the options I was given at the time), however I’m still hoping that when we get insurance I’ll be able to find a specialist with understanding in this area and hopefully be able to solve my pain and anemia without having to permanently remove the option to have children.

I was given an option that I thought about but decided against, which would involve a device to release hormones directly and following it up with estrogen pills (since I would be absorbing less into the rest of my body, supposedly lowering my chance of side effects to my heart or susceptibility to cancer).  However, my doctor is a Christian and told me that he wouldn’t recommend it in general but that in my case it might be warranted depending on my personal beliefs, because it prevents any fertilized eggs from implanting but not from becoming fertilized in the first place.