WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for February, 1998: mENORRHAGIA

mENORRHAGIA

From: aNASTASIA (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 22 Feb 1998 15:30:49 -0600 (CST)

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i HAVE TWO DISTINCT PROBLEMS i'M BATTLING - ONE IS hASHIMOTO'S THYROIDITIS, WHICH FLARES UP OCCASIONALLY AND i HAVE SUFFERED WITH SINCE AFTER MY SON'S BIRTH (1980). i HAVE HAD FIVE PREGNANCIES: TWO MISSES AND THREE LIVE BIRTHS VIA C-SECTION. i USED AN iud AFTER MY FIRST C-SECTION, BUT HAD IT REMOVED BECAUSE OF THE BLEEDING. aLL LIVE BIRTHS WERE FIVE YEARS APART.

i AM CURRENTLY 42 YEARS OLD. i HAVE BEEN BLEEDING HEAVILY SINCE ABOUT 1986, A YEAR AFTER MY SECOND LIVE BIRTH. iT HAS GOTTEN TO THE POINT WHERE i END UP IN THE er WITH PALPITATIONS, LIKE i'M GOING INTO SHOCK. mY PERIOS WERE FREQUENT AND LASTED OVER A WEEK. mY FIRST PERIOD CAME WHEN i WAS 10 YEARS OLD. i HAVE ALWAYS HAD BAD CRAMPING, BUT THE BLEEDING WAS OK. i DID NOT HAVE SEX UNTIL i MARRIED WHEN i WAS 22, SO i HAVE HAD NO stdS.

lAST jUNE, MY gYN GAVE ME THREE LUPRON SHOTS WHICH STOPPED MY PERIODS FOR ABOUT SIX MONTHS. dURING THAT TIME, i WAS ABLE TO RECOVER A GREAT DEAL OF MY STRENGTH AND MIND. tHEN i HAD MY PERIODS BACK, JUST AS BAD IN TERMS OF BLEEDING, BUT NOT AS BAD IN TERMS OF THE OTHER SYMPTOMS BECAUSE i HAD HAD A CHANCE TO RECOVER.

i HAVE HAD TRANSABDOMINAL AND TRANSVAGINAL ULTRASOUNDS. i HAVE HAD ENDOMETRIAL BIOPSIES AND d&cS. i'VE HAD VARIOUS HORMONAL TESTS DONE AND THEY WERE PRETTY MUCH NEGATIVE. i HAVE SOME SMALL FIBROIDS. mY UTERUS SEEMS TO BE ENLARGED, LIKE IT NEVER SHRUNK BACK PROPERLY AFTER EACH PREGNANCY. mY DOCTOR SAID i HAVE AN UNUSUALLY THICK ENDOMETRIUM.

tO HIS CREDIT, mY DOCTOR HAS TRIED TO AVOID HYSTERECTOMY, BUT i AM AT MY WITS' END AND TIRED OF GOING TO THE er FOR THE PALPITATIONS (WHICH, BY THE WAY, DISAPPEARED DURING THE TIME i WASN'T MENSTRUATING). hE HAS BEEN VERY SUPPORTIVE AND WILLING TO DO THE HYSTERECTOMY OR NOT AS i WISH.

iS THERE ANY REASON i CAN'T KEEP HAVING lUPRON SHOTS UNTIL i FINISH WITH MENOPAUSE? i REALLY DON'T WANT TO HAVE ANOTHER ABDOMINAL SURGERY. aNY SUGGESTIONS YOU CAN GIVE WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.

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