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strange period--can it be due to current problem?From: Ellen (anonymous@obgyn.net)Sun, 30 Jan 2000 17:38:24 -0600 (CST)
I am 43, on Demulen 1/35 BCP (second time around) for several years now. My last 4 to 5 periods have been strange. Frankly, I didn't think your period could come early when you were on the pill. I take my pills religiously, within an hour of the same time every night. I have (when not on the pill) an extremely regular period; I can almost tell you to the hour when it will start, or I always could. My history is: at 26, I had a questionable PAP, then another and was subsequently diagnosed with CIN 2 - 3, although I was not told this could be serious. My doctor did a conization biopsy and a diagnostic D&C and I was told that he "got everything". He has since retired and I see his partner, whom I trust very much. My current doctor, unlike his predecessor, answers all my questions and has even gone back through my chart to re-read the notes on previous problems to answer questions I didn't know I needed answers to. He has said that all this was HPV-related, which I understand is very common. When I went for a PAP last May as part of my annual exam, it came back with irregularities. My doctor recommended a repeat in 3 months. When that came back in a similar fashion, he recommended a colposcopy and did that, along with biopsies and an endocervical curettage. Those results indicated to him that cryosurgery was the next step. That was done in early November. I go for a repeat PAP on February 10th. Now, my question is: can all this have affected my periods, even though I'm on the pill? I always end my packs on Saturday night and get my period around 2-3PM on Wednesday. ALWAYS... However, for the last several months, I have been getting spotting, or break-through bleeding, or even a full-blown period several days before I am due. This month has me crazy, because I had all the symptoms of getting my period (tender breasts, mild diarrhea, irritable, etc.) a full week before my period was due, and while I was still taking my pill every night. Then, last Wednesday night (still taking the pill until Saturday), I started spotting. On Thursday and Friday, it looked like I was bleeding a little and even passing some tissue, I think. I prefer being on the pill because I have long, very heavy periods and I pass a lot of large clots. I have seen tissue like this in the past, but it does not seem to be normal for me. I continued to take my pills, taking the last one on Saturday (last night). Could this all be due to the stress of the last few months and the cryosurgery? If anyone can give me any ideas to talk to my doctor about, I'd appreciate it. I do plan to ask him on the 10th, but I'd like to know I'm ok to wait until then, yano? Thanks and sorry this is so long, but I read regularly and know the history is always important. Ellen
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