good article. i copied it from docjohn's headline news


(Topix) About 10 million American women struggle each year with a debilitating but little discussed health condition -- menorrhagia.Comment

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They should change that to most women to discuss it and get blown off. Most GYN's will have paperwork or even ask if you have abnormally 'heavy' cycles and when you say yes, they mostly tend to say, "OK". Hehe.

I think we don't discuss it because it's a broken record type of thing. Plus, I'm personally used to assuming the fetal position with a heating pack on my back and stomach and whining into the corner of my couch for 7-10 days.

I can't find a GYN here, I found one who actually backed out on me due to my other medical complications. I should mail them books on seizures and whatnot so they don't automatically assume I will randomly seize out on their table and die.

I just wanted my yearly pap, lol.

There's not a day that hasn't passed where I wanted to kick my own ***** for not going to med school.

2 of my sisters had hystorectomies pretty young. my mom was in her late 30's. my one sister...man i feel bad for her...but her gyn says she will stop eventually.

yep..like you ellie...long and painful.

(((ellie)))

After years of severe problems, difficulty working a police shift when changing every 15 minutes sometimes when really heavy I finally was able to get it under contol.

I do ahve low thyroid function, when young most times I did not have any but once or twice a year. THen the whammy hit me after 30 yrs old. I suffered so bad.

In 2000 I was scheduled to have a hysterctomy, but my Dad was very ill, I had just been in the car accident so we tried depo provera. I have had no side effects, no periods, I do ahve my tubes tied and I am now 52, so hopefully this is the last of my concerns.

The only recent trouble I ahd and my daughter on Depo, the generics have breakthrough bleeding, if bleeding that means ovulating, so I don;t think there is coverage for birth control.

I tried getting the shot every two month instead of three months, but still have break through and it is annoying being unpredicable to when I will have break through.

Butm the provera is an ecellant option for me,
Dianne

I have been suffering with this problem for years. I finally found a gyno (a woman) who is willing to address it. I have adenomyosis and fibroids and have always been anemic to some degree due to heavy bleeding. She put me on Loestrin and we will see how that goes. I sure hope it works. She assured me that she would do everything in her power to help me. The last gyno (a man) made some comment about going into menopause in about 3 years so I only had to suffer a few more years. jerk!!!