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Re: Has anyone else been told to do this?

From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri Jul 30 10:11:27 2004

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Hi Brittany--

I was on continuous birth control therapy for about 2 years. I started with continuous pills w. no breaks, but then I started having spotting, so I went down to having periods every three months. That worked for awhile, but then I started having spotting between periods, so I went to another doctor, who advised me to stay on the pill, but have regular periods every month since I hadn't had any new endo in 2.5 years. I have been having regular periods for the last year, and so far (knock on wood!) things are okay. I find that I have less pain with my period (I was having a LOT of pain like you described when I was on the pill continuously for more than 5 months at a time, along w. heavy, clotted periods). In fact, I can take Advil and the pain will go away, which was UNHEARD OF when I was first diagnosed w. endo. My doctor told me that some women cannot tolerate continuous birth control, so perhaps you should talk to another doctor about either going on a 3 month regimen, or having a regular cycle. Good luck and have pain free days!

At Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Brittany wrote: >
>Hi,
>Im just wondering if anyone else in here was told to go on the pill
>continuously - without the Sugar pills so you cant get a period and if
>they had the same reaction as i did?
>
>In January 2003 my doctor put me on the pill with no breaks. I didnt
>have a period for 7 or 8 months but was still getting the pains. After
>8 months of no relief as i had thought ; gaining 8lbs and feeling like a
>big bag of blood, I went off it and had the worst period pain ive ever
>ever had. I slept for a week and a half nonstop (well accept to go to
>the toilet) and the blood loss was so incredible, i had a Large Urine
>bag put on me because the blood was pouring out of me...still the
>Doctors did nothing...they said it was a "NORMAL" reaction to coming off
>the pill. Has anyone else had this happen? Could this have made the
>endo worse or advance? It seems to me that after that happened, my
>period pain rapidly increased in pain.
>
>ANY help or comments will be appreciated!
>Cheers
>Brittany

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