Two month period, countless clots - is it just a hormone thing to put up with?

Question

I'm 27 and have suffered with psycho periods all my life. They haven't been too bad in recent years, but lately it's all changed. Have had a period for 2 months - doc put me back on the Pill and it got worse. Passed so many huge clots feel so low. Doc doesn't think it's fibroids - just hormones. Had a scan in Jan this year which showed nothing. I have put a stone on this year through a new job (very desk-based) so don't know if that has caused it. What foods have people found really reduced symptoms, and what foods make it worse? Doc has prescribed me some drugs to stop bleeding - it says don't use them if you have fibroids - terrified I might have them as not had a second scan. Feel so low and fed up! Just want to be normal!

Answer 1

Your doctor probably knows best. However, from personal experience, I had a fibroid the size of a grape fruit in 3/06 by 3/07 it was the size of a very large watermelon. They can grow very fast. Your symptoms are typical of a fibroid, but there can be many other reasons. I personally think "hormones" is wishful thinking on his part. I would see a second opinion. Having seen a male doctor who made me wait and bleed for a year before he finally did a hysterectomy ....I would seek out a female that will be more sympathetic to your female problems.

Answer 2

I do not wish to diagnose you, but I had always suffered a 7 day period; very heavy and with clots, until a year ago, it lasted 15 days, and so heavy that I was changing every 10 minutes!

The specialist said that it was because I had too much oestrogen around my womb, which was why I had bled so much!

I had a very small operation to scrape the womb and now my period has gone down to 4 days - wonderful!!

The hospital had put me on tablets for a year which made me gain weight, all for a fibroid that was very small. When no change happened, that was when I went to a specialist dealing in female problems. He just looked at my ex-ray and said straight away the problem!

By the way, I live in France.

Just to add, DO NOT BE SCARED OF HAVING FIBROIDS. Majority of the time, they are completely harmless and natural in us.

Please go to a specialist, because it sounds like you are suffering the same thing as me.

I so hope that you will start feeling better soon.

Answer 3

I'm very surprised your doctor hasn't yet decided what the solution is for you. In the meantime, make sure you are getting enough iron in your diet (or take an iron supplement) to prevent you becoming anaemic. This should also help a bit with the tiredness.

Your doctor must feel pretty sure that you don't have fibroids or he wouldn't take the risk in prescribing something that has a specific warning. Take them and see if it changes everything or nothing. You may be worrying unnecessarily and have the solution in your hands.

Take a good look at your current diet and eliminate anything that is not healthy or nutritious. Don't give up absolutely everything that you love to eat, treat yourself now and again or you'll just get withdrawal symptoms.

Go back to your doctor once you have trialled the new prescription and can categorically vouch for their effect, good or bad.

Walk up/down the stairs at work instead of taking the lift, if you can. But deal with the lack of energy first.

Answer 4

You DON'T have to put up with this, but there are alternatives that doctors tend not to prescribe that may help you! Natural progesterone, which is chemically identical to what your body produces, is available in creams that you can apply to your skin, and it has been shown to be very effective in balancing hormones, restoring normal menstrual cycles and ovulation AND reducing and/or eliminating fibroids. The Pill is providing your body with synthetic hormones which, while being taken up by the receptors in your body that respond to progesterone, do not provide the same benefits to your body that progesterone does, and in fact keep your body from using the progesterone that you do produce, which may be creating a condition of estrogen dominance, thus the bad periods and severe bleeding.

You can find out more about natural progesterone if you do an internet search on it. You can get a saliva test to check your hormone levels from an alternative or herbal doctor/practitioner. I don't know if regular doctors will offer a saliva test if you request it, but it is a more reliable way of measuring the hormone levels in your body than even a blood test would be. I encourage you to look into natural progesterone and stop using the pill if you can. Best wishes.

Answer 5

Sorry to hear you are feeling so bad. I too went through the same thing. Kept going to my doctor for nearly ten years! Had to have a hysterectomy in the end. I went on all sorts of foods to reduce the symptoms but nothing worked. Sorry to be so down about it but I hope thinmgs turn out all right for you

Answer 6

Well, I am not into internet diagnoses, but it sounds like you could have an endocrine disorder called Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, also known as PCOS or Stein-Leventhal Syndrome.

If you can go see an endocrinologist who specializes in women's health, please do so as soon as possible. Don't worry, it won't kill you - but it does increase your susceptibility to Heart Disease, Diabetes and Osteoporosis and uterine cancer, plus it affects your fertility.

It CAUSES weight gain (it isn't caused BY weight gain, which many docs will try to tell you - there are some people with PCOS who are slim, and symptoms usually show up around the same time as puberty, when most girls are at their slimmest, so this explanation doesn't make sense) - so far the best thing I have found is to change my diet to focus on veggies and meat, NO fake fats, NO fake sugar, and as little real sugar and carbohydrates as possible. Learn to like healthy foods. When you do have carbs, make them whole grains and fruit.

I found a great deal of help by taking a drug called Glucophage, and also one called Spironolactone. Although it sounds like it is caused by your ovaries, it isn't. The infertility and hormone problems are a symptom, not a cause. In part, it may be caused by Insulin Resistance, which is where your cells do not recognize your insulin, and so your blood sugars never get processed properly (to provide energy for your cells), and then are stored as fat.

I am 39, and I wasn't diagnosed until I was about 32. I had the same symptom - a period that was ridiculously long. But I had always had stupid periods - really irregular, heavy bleeding, bad cramping. Then after my third child was born, I just never had a period for a couple of years, until my doctor made me (gave me either estrogen or progesterone to induce a period). At the time of diagnosis, I was physically in terrible shape. I was trying to exercise, but it would just exhaust me, I never felt hungry, or full, just desperate to eat or not. Then I would binge on sugar, and subsequently become extremely sleepy. I grew chin hair like mad, but my leg hair stopped growing in patches. The hair on my head and a couple of other places was of poor quality - it broke easily and didn't grow quickly.

For several years I did drug therapy - I also tried chiropractic, to no avail. The drug therapy has helped. I am in better shape now than I was back then. I can stay awake all day. I have found significant help by taking specific vitamins:

Vitamin C - for cell wall retention, better skin and hair
vitamin B complex - realy improved my mood
Vitamin B12 - this is a recent additon and REALLY, REALLY helps my energy level,
Calcium + minerals - hoping to prevent some of that Osteoporosis

All this in addition to a daily multi. I was unable to shake the sugar habit without glucophage, which is the one medication that positively changed my health for the better. I immediately noticed that I felt both hungry and full appropriately, and stopped craving sugar. I eventually ended up on too much of the stuff, and had to quit, because it lowered my blood sugar too much, and it made me tired. I was glad I took it, and glad I quit taking it when I did.

The spiro was very helpful for the masculine hair growth.

Many doctors will want you to go on the pill. But frankly, the BCP makes me crazy, and it struck me as odd that they wanted to give an infertile woman BC. I always refused to take them. I think they are bad medicine. It's up to you. I do think that taking them as a teenager helped preserve what fertility I did have so that I could have children. You have to make your own decision there.

Best wishes to you! I am sorry to report that if this is what you have, you won't ever be normal. But just do your very best to stay as healthy as you can.

Answer 7

Seek a second opinion and do not put up with this appauling lack of care from your gp.It discusts me that so many doctors are dismisive of so called womens problems and do not consider the health problems they cause.You need a scan asap...this could be caused by a number of things one of which could be PCOS which I have .Have a look at this web site as it may help you as it lists the many symtoms you can have. (but it does sound like a classic case)good luck.
http://www.pcosfriendly.co.uk

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Go and get a smear done. My mam had some funny problems with her periods and it turned out to be cervical cancer. She's just gotten the all clear due to the early detection, but it was tough. Good luck and feel better soon!

Answer 10

Sorry Sorry. Doesn't sound fun or comforting. I don't know if it will help but try to improve your diet. Your body has amazing abilities to cure it's self if you give it good nutrition.
Fruits and veggies, no meat, no dairy,nothing white< no fast food, no processed food, good supplement: http://www.juiceplus.com/nsa/pages/Home.soa?site=Lb53116

Hope it gets solved.