What do I do in acute endometriosis flareups

Smiles are often deceptive. This is me recovering from a very debilitating bout of Endometriosis flare-up, which landed me in the emergency department of a hospital at midnight. 4 days of life sucking pain, bleeding, and weakness when I found it difficult to even stand or walk, here I am again, writing to you my learnings as the show must go on and I really don’t have a choice but to get up and going. 

My brother often mocks that seeing the smile in the pictures I post, no one would believe what I go through, but I always tell him you will see it on my face, the day I will go forever

Anyways, I am here to share how one can prepare in advance for an unpredictable disease like endometriosis, whose flareups get particularly  nasty pre-, during, or post your menstrual cycles 

1.  Though endo is a physical disease the debilitating pain effects our mental health and we get v fragile, susceptible, moody and angry in that period sometimes expecting a lot from our loved ones, so first of all let’s be aware of our situation and take our meds, food and rest on time on priority without expecting others to do it for us 
2. Keep the electric heating pad, warm water flask, medicines, fruits, and all remotes on your side tables so that they are easily reachable 
3. Try to divert yourself watching anything that you love on Ott nonstop setting acs or heaters at a temperature that you like and curl up in bed 
4. Talk to someone v close to you for long again to distract yourself 
5.  If psble avoid going out or ask someone to pick kids and aid in kitchen upfront if they can’t pls keep plan B ready in days when you are not sick, take work from home or leave if psble        
6. Most importantly don’t try to be the super woman who bears everything quietly until she lands up in an emergency in a hospital               
7. The key is to take care of our emotional needs ourselves because physically there is no cure of this lifelong disease so pls believe in your own inner strength and remember this too shall pass and smile 

I know tears do well up and let them flow but expecting others to understand is an over expectation for an Indian woman and is also not the right thing to do as they are not through it.  More so your children can’t see you like this so get going girl no one but you can make your action plan, it is only and only in our head that we can defeat this disease at rest all places it has the potential to send us deep down the dungeon of depression .