My period is still here?

Question

hey guys,,

well a few months back I had ask a question, of why my period was down for 3 months,, everyone told me to go to the doctor because they couldt'n tell me what could be the problem. Well i went to the doctor come to find out that i was bleeding for 3 months straight because i was bleeding out of my uterus. Can someone tell me what that means???

Well the doctor gave me some medication to stop me from bleeding, he told me it was going to stop( now this was in the begingng of october) he told me it was going to stop and start me back on a regular normal period. well it did stop for the rest of oct,, and in november it came back down for 3 days , in dec it came down for 7 days ,, in january nothing happen,, or in feb nothing happen till the 22 of feb and my cycle is still down . I remember him telling me that if it keeps doing what it does i will have to get my uterus scrpae or clean out. Does any1 know the proceedure to it??? does it hurt???? and what is is???

I didn't have any medicaid or insurance so they were acting really funny with me,,, when I had went in october they put me on iv,, gave me an ultrasound, and my god put a caterine in me,, however u spell it,, but u know that thing that be inside u where u can't feel u peeing, in the bad,, all that stuff hurted and i just can't imagine going through that pain again ,, i had got like four shots that night and in the hospital for 10 hr,,, what cause u to have to get ur uterus clean out??? can sommeone help me

omg,, that's sounds scary,, but i'm only 19 yrs of age why does this happpen

Answer 1

I'm not entirely familiar with this, however a friend of my mom's had to have it done and I can't say it was a lot of fun..she said it was pretty painful afterward. It was weird because she was in her 60's and had already had menopause, and she basically was bleeding for no reason so the Drs. determined she had some problem and that would fix it. That was like a year or two ago...and she's fine now.

Anyhow, here's a site that might help you...I think this is what you are talking about: http://www.healthopedia.com/dilatation-and-curettage/

You said you weren't sure about the information your Dr. was giving you, they were acting funny because of your insurance? If you even have a small doubt in the care you are receiving, I would strongly advise (if you can) to seek another Dr.'s opinion on this. If it is really something that will require surgery, you really should get a second opinion to make sure that's the right thing to do. Good luck!

Answer 2

I don't know if there is a Medical School close to where you live or not but if there is I would recommend going there for help.

The procedure your dr wanted to do where they scrape sounds like a D&C (dilitation and curettage). The dilitation part is to open up the cervix so that they can see in to the uterus and the curettage is for the scraping.

I would recommend asking the dr about doing a hysteroscopy as well so that they can get a good look at the inside of the uterus to see if something like a polyp (no, polyps are not always cancerous, I know because I had one removed from the top of my cervix in 1999) could be causing this bleeding episode.

D&C like hysteroscopy (where they send a special camera up your vagina to look around your uterus) is also used for diagnostic (for finding out what is wrong) purposes. I had this done in 1999.