To be terrified of my doctors visit next week?

[annabanana84]

Around three years ago I suffered really quite badly with never ending menstrual flow, and it was so heavy that I was changing my santitary protection every half hour. I was also passing blood clots the size of a golf ball every few minutes, and excruciating abdomen pains. It was hellish. After I'd gone to the doctors, they refered me to the hospital, and the hospital stuck something with a camera up my tootsie, found nothing, and so the consultant said I should lose weight and then put me on the coil to stop the blood flow. None of the medical staff were very nice tbh.

The coil worked, but now i've met the man of my dreams, and we would love to start a family. Neither of us have children at the moment, but my every waking moment is me envisaging us as parents, doing mummy and daddy things. We've decided that next year would be an ideal time for us to try for a baby, but because of my past problems, i've booked myself an appointment with my new doctor, because the last thing I would hope for when my coil is removed, is for the blood to come again and therefore thwart our attempts to ttc.

Has anyone ever been through this before? If there are any gynae professionals or anyone on here, please can you help me and tell me what might be the next step? I'm absolutely pooping myself!

Not a professional, but there are people who have come off a contraceptive and found that whatever problems were there before have resolved themselves (fingers crossed for you). If you don't have the option of been referred to a different team, then you must try to be assertive in what you want to achieve, lose weight is all well and good but that doesn't mean that there aren't other things to explore as your previous experience/history is clearly not in the realms of normal.

I do have experience of fertility issues though (still cracking on with that one) and would say the best advice is to deal with each issue as it happens. It's almost impossible to do, but if you can focus on one issue at a time without letting yourself get carried away on a tidal wave of 'what if's' you'll have a head start on most people.

Good luck.