Re: bleeding.
From: Amelie (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:12:52 -0500 (CDT)
Hi there...
What ARE the side effects from provera? I think I am seriously
(seriously) <<seriously>> different than most people. Does anyone know
if bruises get worse on it? Mine seem to.
I was told it would make me depressed and stop the steady drain of
anovulatory bleeding I have had going since August 2. Before that, I
had "spotting" and every month I have "spotting" (and bleeding), but not
usually a period (i.e., heavy bleeding) until of course I am camping or
something, that's when the primal flow springs forth (and I am always
miles from civilization, or walking home in white pants, promise) when
the uterus gives out and opens up. That's when I pass out from cramps,
too.
Okay, so provera...I am on it to STOP the bleeding, clean me out, and
start a new bc for regulation. I am still bleeding, but feel great. I
am calm and cool. And eating low carb low salt peanuts with a small
dose of fresh raspberries (snack time).
Do you know anything about bleeding while on provera? I bled with really
high estrogen pills as well (3/day, Ovcon 35, the last ditch effort to
stop the bleeding last year).
I understand most people have no bleeding with PCOS. May I just tell
you, my version is no fun?
So, can someone tell me what else to expect from Provera? Also, how
weird is it to feel "better" nearly immediately after starting it last
friday, and why isn't it stopping the bleeding? The nurse yesterday said
it should have completely stopped last sunday, and it's only getting
more profoundly messier.
Much love,
~Amelie
Who picks your brains because Kaiser doesn't call back...
At Tue, 24 Sep 2002, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:
>
>I have been using the provera for years. This last year the side effect
>have gotten to be too much. Seriously going insane when on it. Switched
>to Wild Yam cream. So far doing okay. No period yet, but wild mood
>swings are mellowed out a whole lot.
>
>The only way I have a period this last seven years is with provera.
>
>Anyone using Wild yam cream? any success?
>
>Also, what is yasmin?
>
>thanks,
>
>~df
>
>At Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Pat wrote:
>>
>>1. A fasting bloood sugar can be normal if you have been eating low
>>carb. The best way to do this test is a fasting and 2 hour, and eating
>>a high carb diet for a few days. That will challenge your system, and
>>help you be diangosed correctly. [http://www.inciid.org/faq/pcos4.html]
>>Another useful test is a HG A 1C.
>>2. I missed what was going on with the bleeding. Provera is used to
>>make you bleed, and is useful if you haven't had a period for a few
>>months. Some women do use it regularly, but most folks do not like the
>>side effects. So, I guess I missed what was happening with the
>>bleeding, and why you were specifially taking the Provera. If you are
>>bleeding heavily and constantly, I feel you should ask to see your
>>providre specifially, and have them help you unravel it.
>>
>>--
>>Pat Sonnenstuhl, ARNP, CNM, MS
>>PCOS Support
>>Editorial Advisor PCOS Pavilion
>>http://www.obgyn.net/pcos/pcos.asp
>>http://www.midwivesofwa.org/pcos.htm
>>http://www.midwivesofwa.org//pcosarticles.htm
>>
>>>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
>>>
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