I've just started my first period since ds was born 11 months ago. After over six years with hardly any proper periods due to having babies, breastfeeding etc. I feel so depressed that this has started again. I have all the children I want, dh is getting the snip next week, the thought of pointlessly bleeding & being in pain every four weeks for the next 20 years is so depressing. I had toxic shock syndrome as a teenager so shouldn't use tampons (though I do anyway as I find pads so useless & uncomfortable). I used to have really really awful periods of the puking & 'high as a kite on feminax' variety before having children and really dread this coming back. But even if they end up being less painful I just don't want to have them, the bleeding, the inconvenience, the worry about TSS...
I take the mini pill at the moment - was sort of hoping it'd stop my periods but no such luck - but would of course like to stop once dh has been done.
I'd tried Mirena but had a bad reaction to it so it had to come out again. Any other medication that might stop it? Also, has anyone had the intra-uterine ablation done?
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stopping periods once and for all?
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geekgrrl · 23/10/2004 07:20
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