#it’s what the doctor prescribed 🥺💜

[taeyungie]

From what my doctor has said, you can’t really get addicted to melatonin because it’s already a chemical your body makes. (She won’t prescribe heavier sleep meds becuase of their side effects)

It’s supposed to help your brain figure out when you’re supposed to be going to sleep, and hopefully your body adjusts and starts producing more of its own melatonin. Like oh!! It’s 9pm!! This is when I usually get sleepy! Time for sleepy chemicals 🥰😴

I hope it works out soon— insomnia is such a pain. 💜💜

(sorry for answering late, i ended up falling asleep shortly after answering last ask ajdjsjsdkcjs 🤧❤️) ah, honestly! all I've done was my own research and getting advice from other people and i haven't considered taking my issue to a professional lmao i should talk to a doctor about it and they'll help me with dosage! i think that getting addicted to it was a wrong way to say it, but what i meant was that i know for sure that taking melatonin longterm might cause side effects that /impare/ natural hormon production which leads to insomnia getting even worse - that's what i'm scared about :( but it doesn't have to happen if it's controlled! your message helped me to clear my head up and I'll talk to a doctor about it! i was always pushing it aside because people i've told it about always tried to explain my insomnia with the stupidest reasoning, because "how such a young person can have such issues". i was afraid doctors would do the same, but i guess i can give it a try. your message is so adorable and it feels like you've just given me pats on my head lol 🥺🥺🥺❤️❤️❤️ thank you so much sweetheart! 🥺 i hope you'll always have a wonderful sleep hehe ❤️ please take care! 💕💗

#anonymous #answered

[tbhimnoteasyonmyself]

Are you alright love?🥺 Read your tags, just checking if you want to talk about it? If not, no problem, just sending you alllll the hugs in the world💞💗💜

Hello, Liyah, my light, how are you? 🥰

Thx for checking on me, it means the world 🥺🤍.

And yeah, I'm fine now. It's just a frustrating story.

I used to have very strong acne when I was young. Like, right as puberty hit me at 11 or 12. And I LOVED to pop them. Because I was a kid and the popping was very satisfying. The problem was: you should NEVER pop them because it can spread germs and stuff all over yourself and it can infect and it just generally makes everything worse.

So, when I was 14, we consulted to find a solution so that my stupid ass wouldn't destroy my face. The solution found was that I should go on birth control. A VERY STRONG ONE. The thing we didn't know, besides all the very dangerous side effects of birth control that that pill in specific increased, was that I (or anyone really) was only supposed, for safety reasons, to take it for 6 months. Instead, I took it for 5 FUCKING YEARS. And my doctor DID NOT FLINCH in letting me take it for that long. Naturally, that had consequences.

So 2 years ago, I started having really strong periods with incredibly painful moments, especially on my right ovary. Of course, I went to the doctor. She was very difficult to talk to, did not fucking want to test me for anything or request any exams. It took her me NOT HAVING A PERIOD FOR 5 FUCKING MONTHS to finally accept something was deeply wrong and test me.

Unsurprisingly, I had a cyst on my right ovary. Her solution? "Let it pass, it'll go away". Spoiler: it didn't. After 1 year suffering and complaining while nothing being done, I checked a different doctor who figured out the cause was probably my birth control. Shocking, I know. So she told me to get out of birth control. The thing is: you can't just stop taking it. Especially one that's so strong. But because the pills were prescribed by my public doctor I needed her approval for it and also for her to support me through the process.

Needless to say, she wasn't happy and didn't want to "because what if I got pregnant". Ah, yes, because that was TOTALLY the first order of business in that moment when I had been almost 7 months without a period and was suffering from immense pain because of a literal ball of evil inside me. Sure, yeah, that makes sense. So I threatened her with a lawsuit. Hence, I am now out of birth control. And, consequentially, out of cyst. It vanished in 2 months and my period's back to normal (and way less heavy and painful).

I also asked her to check my fertility (not that I care cause I don't ever want to be pregnant but just because I wanted to make sure so that my complaint about her was accurate) and the exams came out positive, I can still get pregnant and all seems normal and regulated.

But it was a struggle. It was more than a year of pain because people prescribe and recommend birth control for no reason or in incorrect ways. I'm not a woman, of course, but society def sees it that way and I can't help but just correlate this with how careless society and the medical industry are towards women. It's like it doesn't matter what happens to them. Especially when the beneficiary here (because heteronormativity, of course) are men, who can have unprotected sex and not father a child, regardless if the woman has a fucking cyst and feels like dying for a week every month or not. Absolutely heartless. Women are worth nothing in our world.

Anyways... Hugs to you too and thx for always being so nice and caring for my issues. It truly means a lot. 🥰💜 I hope you know that if you ever need someone to vent to or just to talk to I'm here for you as well. All the love 💜💜💜.

#anyways hope this wasn't too long #it's just something that frustrates me to this day #especially when I know other people with similar experiences #it's fucked up #the medical industry in general tends to be but even so #it can be very heartless to people whom it perceives as women especially #ask #asks #Liyah