ENDO Messages for December, 1999: I feel like giving up on the sitz baths (long)

I feel like giving up on the sitz baths (long)

From: Kristy (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri Dec 31 16:00:34 1999

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Hi ladies!!

I need to whine again for a minute. I'm not in a lot of pain at the moment so that's not the reason for whining.

(Becca, you mentioned that you hope that the sitz baths are helping me out some more.) Well, the sitz baths is reason that I need to whine. At this time I don't think that it's doing me much good even though it's only been a few days.

I know that I promised myself and some of you that I would give it a fair chance but after just a few days I'm still having some pain at night. Sure it's great that I'm not having pain in the day. (Penny, I appreciate your thought about the fact that the baths are helping me during the day even though I'm still hurting at night.)

I was hoping to do this until I saw my dr on the 10th, but I thought that I would also be having some relief from the pain at night and I'm not. I'm still having to use the xylocaine cream at night to keep me from hurting.

I'm doing the bath the way that my dr said with the baking soda, and as long as I continue to do the baths I will do it with baking soda. I do think that I found an ok sitting position for this pan but the problem that I have now is that when I spread my legs out to touch the water in the pan my feet get quite numb after it's all over with.

I thought that I could be patient about these sitz baths but I'm not sure that I can do it anymore. The reason that I have the sitz pan is so that I don't have to use the bath tub and keep filling it with water since we have to pay a water bill. It's not fun to be negative, but it's hard to be positive about something that may not be doing what it's supposed to do.

So, I figure that since it's not a good idea to run up the water bill and this pan is a pain in the neck and I'm not getting as much relief as I should after just a few days that I just shouldn't try anymore.

Some of you will think that I'm giving up too soon and you are probably right but at this time this is how I feel. It would just not make any sense (to me any way) to keep on going with this if I'm only going to continue to hurt from it.

If I am wrong to give up so soon please try to find a way to convince that I should keep going with this. I'm just not sure that I can.

I wish that I was a lot happier about this whole thing. I had a hard enough time not complaining inside of me when my dr recommended it. I figured that I had to give it some time, and I really and truly thought that I would start feeling better at night too.

Having no pain during the day is fantastic, but it's at night that especially counts for me. I don't want to tell my dr that I tried it and it didn't work for me but I guess I have no choice if it's not doing what I want it to do.

I'm not sure that I want to do my second bath tonight. I will have to do it in a few minutes if I decide to do it.

The fact that I feel that this thing isn't working the way that I thought it would makes me cry. I want to do everything that I can to make myself feel better, but I'm just not sure that this is the answer.

I hope that my attitude about this whole thing will go away soon so that I can go on with what I know that I'm supposed to do so that I can tell my dr that I do feel better. I don't want to disappoint her which is why I did this for a few days but I'm more disappointed in this treatment thus far.

I don't like to whine, or mean to be so down about this especially when we are supposed to be starting a new year and hoping for better things. so please forgive me.

I hate to vent, whine or any of that but I know that some times I just have to do it. Thanks for letting me be able to do this. It means the world to me to have all of you here.

In the meantime, Penny, I will give your thought about no pain during the day some more consideration to see if that helps me overcome the negative feeling that I have for wanting to give up the sitz baths.

Have a wonderful evening everyone and I will talk to everyone later.

Kristy :( Jacksonville, FL

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