[embodiment] on the one hand I am not having a great time of it

[kaberett]

On the other recessional has been great about doing an initial lit sift re evidence base for preoperative downregulation of gonadal sex hormone production for the specific purpose of making surgery easier and less risky, which has netted me Perioperative hormone treatment of endometriosis and The effect of hormonal treatment on ovarian endometriomas: a systematic review and meta-analysis, which are definitely both in the "nice to know" category even as the overall conclusion re my specific question is "lol what systematic reviews"...

... and also the concept of "pain phenotyping" and, thence, "nociplastic pain", terminology I had not previously met but which is apparently replacing "central sensitisation". I am also finding the section of wikipedia on pain mechanisms reassuring, in that yep turns out that my internal drafting of The Book On Pain is actually doing a reasonable job of covering The General Areas even as I need (which I already knew!) to bring myself actually up to date with, like, the lit.

Not least because it contains a bunch of interesting terminology of relatively recent vintage that I wasn't previously familiar with!

(Not great time of it: e.g. having to work really hard to stifle shrieks about Wrong Pillowcase Escaped From Containment. More context does not make this more reasonable.)

(Book On Pain: working title "on pain; of pain", because I have decided that actually the Everyone's Terrible But Have You Tried Yoga? Friend essay and the Emotional Pain Is Real Pain (Things I Wish Pain Clinics Had Explained Better) essay are. a book. rather than essays. Current document length: 324 words. Think I'm gonna try writing the book and then distilling the essays back out. We'll see.)

Comments

[madgastronomer]

Have you read kiya's short story with the CW of "yoga roommate"?

[kaberett]

... nooooo?

[vass]

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because I have decided that actually the Everyone's Terrible But Have You Tried Yoga? Friend essay and the Emotional Pain Is Real Pain (Things I Wish Pain Clinics Had Explained Better) essay are. a book. rather than essays.

Oooooooooh.

[kaberett]

Am I actually going to manage to write any significant chunk of it? LOL WHO KNOWS LET'S FIND OUT. did the PhD, how much worse can this be

[redsixwing]

Oh hey I have experienced perioperative downregulation of gonadal sex hormone production for the treatment of endometriosis. Happy to assist, if talking is useful at all.

Edit: Extremely best luck in writing your book. That would be a good thing to exist in the world.

[kaberett]

The thing I am specifically interested in is the evidence base for pre-operative downregulation without HRT - I've done post-operative with myself! If that's something you can pontificate on then please by all means do, but if not thank you for the offer but I think I'm covered for most other contexts <3