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to wish someone would come up with a really good solution to periods

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Debsbear · 17/04/2012 18:56

Am I the only one who is fed up with having crap periods? I spend the first few days back and forth the loo every hour at best, end up totally knackered from no sleep and iron deficiency and just wish it would stop! Tampons last no longer than an hour or so and don't get me started on mooncaps!! I thught "Wow""Great idea", Bloody waste of money! In case you haven't guessed I came on today and am not in a good mood Wink

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laughlovelife · 17/04/2012 18:59

TMI here.....

Im on day 2, Ive stained bedsheets, used 2 packs of sanitary towels, and also stained my day wear clothes today, even tho I doubled up, I wish someone would blooming find something.

Dr's are useless also with this issue.

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Debsbear · 17/04/2012 19:01

TF for that!! I thught it was just me! [smiles]

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cockyleeky · 17/04/2012 19:06

I don't think I suffer like you do, but I'm pissed off with the sudden symptomless periods I'm having. Yay, I thought, no more bumache and weird feeling. But at least I knew I was coming on then.

Now they seem to be coming on incredibly suddenly with no warning at all. Which isn't funny as a delivery driver when there are no toilets, and I've definitely been to several doors with a bloody crotch before I've noticed. Marvelous!!

ZeldaUpNorth · 17/04/2012 19:09

I had really heavy periods like you, super tampons lasting just over an hour. Then i went on the pill (microgynon) and now i hardly notice them. Would deffo recommend trying it.

OddBoots · 17/04/2012 19:10

I'm curled up on the sofa thinking the same thing, I'd be perfectly happy if the doctors took my uterus out, I don't need it any more but it's giving me no end of grief.

frenchfancy · 17/04/2012 19:10

2 words - Mirena coil.

I haven't had a period in 5 years :)

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Debsbear · 17/04/2012 19:12

Last time I had a coil I ended up with an infection, an abscess on my ovary and pregnant - don't have the greatest faith in them now! Grin I was told it was a Mirena, but when they removed it - guess what? It wasn't! Just a bog standard copper one.

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Jajas · 17/04/2012 19:12

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dreamingbohemian · 17/04/2012 19:12

There's also a birth control pill that you take every day with no breaks that stops your period. Although a friend of mine who took it said it just felt like constant PMS that never ended! But a lot of women have liked it.

YANBU of course, if men got periods they would have been dealt with aaaaages ago...

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Debsbear · 17/04/2012 19:14

I found depo was great, but put on LOADS of weight and am now trying really hard (with some success I might add) to lose it again. Right moaner aren't I!

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Bambino81 · 17/04/2012 19:14

I'm due on soon and i get the most hideous back ache. when i've been walking for a while it hurts so bad the only thing that stops it for a little while is if i bend forwards, so i pretend im doing my laces up even tho i don't actually have any on my shoes Hmm

does anyone else get backache like that?

gafhyb · 17/04/2012 19:14

The Mirena Coil

It does not suit everyone, but I haven't had anything remotely resembling a period for 9 years.

The hormone in Mirena is low dose of progesterone

gafhyb · 17/04/2012 19:16

Sorry, missed that you'd had a copper coil. I can see why you'd be wary, given your experience, but I'd still recommend the Mirena.

Bambino81 · 17/04/2012 19:17

The pill doesn't agree with me at all, i've tried a few and most of them send me absolutly loopy and the other ones make me sick

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Debsbear · 17/04/2012 19:18

If I could guarantee that was what I got I might be tempted! Grin My biggest problem is that I don't need contraception anymore and my hubby had th snip to remove the need for me to take any hormones/ chemicals etc. I'd hate to think he had gone through that for nothing [sniggers!]

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McHappyPants2012 · 17/04/2012 19:20

mooncup are great, my periods seem lighter and for some reason period pain is much less.

i do understand that they are not to everyone choice of period products

lolaflores · 17/04/2012 19:21

Laughs and points, does a little dance
Bums to you all. I had a hysterectomy 3 years ago
BEST DAYS WORK I EVER DID
Life without periods? Fucking brilliant.
Can still remember the sheer contrariness of it all. The madness, the pain, the grief......
But that was then girls and this is now. Oh yes, whip it out ladies, don't care what anyone says. Bring on the menopause, can't wait to be all withered and rude without a care in the world.....ha ha ha ha ,...hah ahahhaahh

gafhyb · 17/04/2012 19:21

I'd maybe go to a specialist contraceptive clinic rather than any old doctor. You want someone v experienced at inserting the Mirena. Take painkillers (my second one was horrendously painful).

OhChristFENTON · 17/04/2012 19:22

I have been putting off going to the doctor about this - I wonder if they would actually do anything though. I am 40, - always had heavy days since being a teenager, - it got better in my 20s but I think that was due to the clubbing and not eating much to maintain the 7.5 stone my arse of a boyfriend wanted me at.

Nearly 5 years after my last child I have dreadful pain before during and after, and about 3 or 4 days when I practically cannot leave the bathroom let alone the house.

Horrid

And I only have one ovary and tube since a nasty cyst in my mid 20s. - You'd think that lone ovary would have expired by now wouldn't you ? Grin

boringnickname · 17/04/2012 19:22

I second french fancy - mirena coil

BUT there are caveats - can cause depression in some people

and they can't get my bloody thing out!!!!

lolaflores · 17/04/2012 19:22

You that thing before a period, that if you have 2 glasses of anything and your pissed? Yeah remember that? Don't get that anymore.

OhChristFENTON · 17/04/2012 19:22

I wonder if I had a sterilisation done privately I could get it half price?

gafhyb · 17/04/2012 19:23

Grin lola

If it weren't for the Mirena, I'd despair. My periods were terribly painful. I hated them - more so after my pregancies, as they reminded me of labour ....

gobbledegook1 · 17/04/2012 19:23

I went on the Depo injection after everything else had failed to help with my highly irregular and incapacitating periods, first time round it was fab no periods ever and took me 18months to get them back after I came off it.

Second time it took ages for my periods to completely stop and I developed cervical ectropian and would bleed quite heavily after sex. I came off it and went on the pill instead and whilst I still have my monthly they are lighter and less painful than they used to be and my ectropian has gone.

KateShmate · 17/04/2012 19:24

Im on cerazette and bloody love it! I take a pill everyday, and so far I haven't had a period for about a year Grin
Mine were horrendous before - like you, seriously anaemic from heavy blood loss, awful period pains etc.
Have had absolutely no side effects at all.
After me being on Cerazette, most of my friends and family (those not TTC) have gone on it too and loved it.
I always used to wish there was some 'magic pill' that would get rid of it - and Cerazette was the answer!

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