A woman experienced severe abdominal bloating before her wedding that caused intense pain and threatened her confidence in how she'd look on the day. The bloating also worried her about her ability to have children later, making it feel like a health crisis she had to solve immediately.
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there was this immediacy of wanting to get the bloating under control because I was going to be getting married in like a couple of months. It was this drastic bloating. It wasn't something like small and minute. It was something that affects confidence. Not only was I worried about like, am I going to fit into the dress or anything? Like, you want to feel good on that day. And for me, the bloating also came with intense pain that I could not change. It came with just feeling bogged down. I knew that if I wanted to feel good going into my wedding day, I had to get this bloating under control with the long-term goal of me wanting to get ready for starting a family one day. So it was like the, the immediacy— I want the bloating fixed, but I know that I'm also doing this to be able to carry a child one day.