Re: heavy bleeding
From: j wang, M.D. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 18 Dec 2000 12:03:23 -0600 (CST)
Your cycles should not be 8 weeks apart. It seems that the glucophage
is not enough to get you to cycle regularly. You probably should have a
course of progestin to try to give you a "medical" D&C. That may be all
you need to get the bleeding under control. You could start clomid
after that if you wanted to.
At Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Annetta wrote:
>
>I normally post in the PCOS forum, but I notice a lot of dr's post here.
>I am a 33 year old woman with PCOS. I am taking Glucophage for that and
>Ferrous Sulphate for anemia. Normally my periods are every 8-9 weeks
>and last up to 2 weeks. On November 5th I started bleeding and
>proceeded to bleed for 29 days. Went to an RN arounds day 26 and all
>she said was, "Do you know why you are bleeding so much?" and did not
>even examine me.
>Finally stopped bleeding, then had a pap last Wednesday followed by an
>ultrasound because of some pelvic pain I was havin in the lower right
>hand side right above my pelvic bone. The dr informed me that
>everything looked okay, that I had a good dominant follicle in my left
>ovary, but my uterus lining looked rather thick. The following day I
>started bleeding again, and have been bleeding non stop. I have noticed
>(this sounds nasty) that where my bleeding has normally not had a smell
>to it it does now. It actually reminds me of after I gave birth. (Now,
>I must say, normally I use tampons but with all this heavy bleeding I
>have switched to pads temporarely. So, the smell may be normal but I
>just never noticed it before.)
>What I am wondering is how long I should allow this bleeding to go on,
>especially with me being anemic. (My red blood cells are running around
>30%) I am wondering if maybe a D & C is in order.
>Just FYI, I have been TTC for over 5 1/2 years now. My RE wants to put
>me on clomid but have not started that yet, I was hoping the Glucophage
>would straighten things out a bit.
--
James Wang, M.D
Assitant Clinical Prof.
Tufts University School of Medicine
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