Re: Constant bleeding with birth control
From: Caitlin (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed Sep 24 08:29:21 2008
Hi Bren,
I went through the same thing. I was started on Desogen continuously
(don't remember the brand name) and the heavy bleeding started literally
a week after taking it and continued for 3 months! My doctor decided to
put me on the estrogen patch to see if that could stop the bleeding.
Again, this made it 10x worse! He suspected I was super sensitive to
Estrogen and took me off of both and started me on a progesterone only
pill (POP) called Mircet (brand name is Erin). Again, not even that
worked. I just had my first Depo Provera shot and so far, so good. The
bleeding has stopped (finally). I just hope it will work for more than
a month!
Hope this helps!
Caitlin
At Tue, 23 Sep 2008, bren wrote:
>
>Hello,
>I was tried on only 2 different types of birth control..first one was
>right before I had any idea of possibly having endometriosis. It was
>during a papsmear & discussion of how I had heavy bleeding w/ each
>period & lots of pain/cramping...even the papsmear was painful, but the
>gyn didn't even realize that this was not normal. I was given
>microgestin FE to control the pain & bleeding & pmdd symptoms, but it
>just gave me negative side effects & everything went downhill from there
>on. Then I saw an obgyn specialist after suspection of endometriosis &
>he "unofficially" diagnosed me through a physcial exam & was first going
>to put me on lupron, then changed his mind & had me try Yasmin. That
>gave me negative side effects as well & seemed to worsen my symptoms.
>Finally, he decided to try me on progesterone only pill since any extra
>estrogen seemed to make my symptoms worse. I am now on
>medroxyprogesterone?-don't know the spelling, but basically the depo
>provera pills 5mg, which is progesterone only. If on it continuously,
>it's supposed to stop your period. It can also cause breakthrough
>bleeding, but I have not had any breakthrough bleeding w/ it. I take it
>15 days after my 1st day of my period & take it for 15 days, stop, &
>then my period starts w/in 48 hrs. Then the cycle starts over, I count
>15 days & start again & stop again. By the 2nd month on it, it did make
>my periods a lot lighter & I bleed for only 3 days rather than 7-10 days
>& used to have heavy bleeding & pain the first 3 days & pain before my
>period & ovulation time. So it did help me. Everyone is different.
>Depo provera can be given in pill form or injections & comes in
>different doses. It does also seem to help w/ my pms/pmdd symptoms
>since it's progeterone only & estrogen is the "emotional" hormone. I am
>also very sensitive to medication especially birth control &
>antidepressants (which I was tried on to help pms/pmdd & pain-but seemed
>to have adverse reactions on me-like it did the opposite of what it's
>supposed to do for you). Hope this helps.
>
>At Tue, 23 Sep 2008, sophia wrote:
>>
>>I had surgery back in may to remove what was thought to be a cyst from
>>my clitoral area but after the biopsy it was learned that it was
>>actually a small piece of endometriosis. I am 28yrs old and my obgyn
>>recommended that I start taking birth control continuously to stop my
>>period so that the lining would not continue to grow and therefore
>>reduce my risk of developing endometriosis in the future. The problem
>>is I have tried 4 types so far and had continuous bleeding on all of
>>them. Just today my doctor prescribed 0.5mg of Estrace to stop the
>>bleeding. After reading about this estrogen replacement drug I am not
>>sure this will help my situation considering a common side effect is
>>break through bleeding. I also read that Progestin should be taken with
>>this drug. Any help with this situation would be greatly appreciated.
>
>--
>Bren
>
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