Re: bleeding.
From: Amy (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 23 Sep 2002 23:09:07 -0500 (CDT)
At Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Amelie wrote:
>
>Hiya. Just got of phone at Kaiser with advice nurse at OBGYN who'd
>never heard of this. My insulin readings are not in, but my fasting
>glucose is 97. What does that mean for someone like me? The nurse said
>it was perfectly normal.
>I told her I'd started a low carb diet a week before, does that effect
>how much glucose is in your blood in that short a time frame?
>
>Also, I asked her about bleeding on provera. First she started telling
>me about depo provera. I explained I am on the oral version.
>
>I feel better on it, strangely (as they keep asking me if I'm depressed
>on this med, even the pharmacist warned me. I say "well, I have been
>CRYING at the drop of a hat, but I feel better since Friday, in my
>body." I feel calmer, like my body is cooler and not adrenalined), but I
>have not stopped the steady red goo that I have been dealing with for
>months and ages (without actually having periods very often). The
>provera is to start a period through withdrawal bleeding, clean me out,
>and then I am to start on yasmin. (I have read on other message boards
>that yasmin causes hair regrowth on your head in most women, I have
>temple and top thinning, but not too noticeable with layers), but mainly
>i'm going to be taking it for the new progesterone it is jam packed
>with.
>I am starting to think I have hysterical bleeding, as, 4 days later,
>after starting provera, it hasn't stopped the initial bleeding that I
>was dealing with. Like I LIKE to bleed, or something, for the
>attention.
>Oh yeah. I bleed nonstop. I'm a lucky one, baby. I love when they say
>"saturating a pad every 15 minutes" as if bleeding steadily nonstop is
>somehow better than bleeding to death all at once. I do saturate pads
>very often, usually after something extremely fun (like sex or playing
>tag with the neighborhood kids), but on provera I have already worked
>out twice with no INCREASED panicky bleeding, just the steady deal.
>
>Anyway, just wondering if anyone else has this, if they have tried
>provera, and if the steady stream actually "periodizes", or if this so
>called "withdrawal" bleeding is going to be more of the same (and should
>I just start taking yasmin after my 10 day provera is done.)
>
>Much love,
>
>--
>Amelie
>
Amelie...
i dont know if this will help but i went through a similar thing when i
was 20. I started bleeding and it wouldn't stop. the doctors had no
idea what was causing it (not diagnosed with PCOS yet) so they tried all
sorts of things..eventually i had to have a DNC and get on the depo-shot
to get it to stop. it stopped but i dont know which was worse...the
depression and moodiness from the shot or bleeding! I wish you luck.
what i tried was 4 bcp's a day, the provera, then surgery. good luck
and let us know how it is going
--
Amy
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