WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for February, 1998: Re: Abnormal Menstral Cycle

Re: Abnormal Menstral Cycle

From: R.Daniel (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 13 Feb 1998 18:13:17 -0600 (CST)

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At Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Michelle wrote: >
>On November 25, 1996, one month before I turned 30, my period started
>and didn't stop! My period was on most of 1997. I went to several
>different doctors and received everything from birth control pills, to
>shots to other medicines. My period was controlled for a a few days and
>then start again.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>Gena,
>
>I have been in the same boat, I bled for 16 months non stop. The dr's tried
>every pill imaginable and 2 D&C 's. Nothing helped. Finally she put me on
>Provera- I bled like a stuffed pig(as the old saying goes) I literaly
>couldn't leave the bathroom- I spent part of my 16 months of bleeding like
>this too. It actually stopped. I have now started again- it has been 4
>days of the heaviest bleeding I have ever had. HUGE ( double fist size
>clots- no exaggeration there)
>I have yet to know why I was bleeding so bad. The thought is now that they
>don't know if I am ovulating or not.
>
>I can 100% understand your frustration, I was there. I thought I would go
>nuts! My dr's decided I needed a hysterectomy...I declined.
>
>I wish there was more to tell you. All I can say is YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
>Please feel free to email me privatley, if you would like to vent or talk.
>Please let me know if you ever find a cause!
>Shell
> send email to: ShellCS@msn.com in Maryland

I certainly can not hope to come up with a cause for this kind of bleeding over the internet. I can however offer one helpful (I hope) hint. Pick a physician that you like and trust and then stay with that physician for a while. Working with abnormal bleeding is something that takes a while to straighten out. If you go to one physician for 1 or 3 months and then switch to another, the second has no idea what the first was trying and may make things worse. Neither of you have mentioned either a sonogram, a saline infusion sonogram, or a hysteroscopy. These are diagnostic tests that might be helpful in figuring out why.

-- R.Daniel Braun, MD

"Heisenberg might have slept here" Unknown or Indecisve

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