to want to stop my periods entirely?

[NotBrittaPieHonest]

I'm just so sick of them. More than a quarter of my life I'm bleeding. I hate it. Without any medication it is a painful bloodbath.

Meclafenic Acid and Tranexamic Acid only worked slightly, I'm on cerezette and that is just making them slightly lighter (but still just as long and annoying) and I can't take the normal combined pill because of other meds. I get all grumpy and restless too, and my mental health is pretty unstable anyway (I have bipolar)

Cerezette seems to be utterly killing my sex drive, too, which is awful. I can't live without sex but I just can't seem to get...there.

Can I not just have some form of switch...switched?

I can't even have any more babies because the whole thing got slashed to bits having DD1 and so DD2 had to be my absolute last baby.

Apparently I have a little 2cm fibroid in there too.

I just hate it. Proper hate it.

I had an ablation with a spinal anaesthetic last August - was a quick procedure and I asked for the spinal as I had got myself worked up about a GA. I had about a week of very light bleeding after and since then nothing - such a change from the up to two weeks a month of bleeding, the flooding, the carting around of spare clothes and full cleaning kit for the loo at work, the sitting on waterproof coats (ok in winter - slightly harder in summer) on home visits for work.
I do still get some abdominal cramping and tenderness in the days before I would have normally been expecting my period to start but much more manageable than before.

My gp had suggested the coil but I was seeing the consultant for another reason and he suggested it - I am so glad he did.

I had an ablation it had been wonderful x

Have you tried looking at low oestrogen combined pills e.g. Loestrin, if you are able to take them (I know you said you can't take normal combined pill, but check with doctor if low oestrogen would be ok)

I had really heavy periods and found I couldn't take normal combined pills (microgynon and mercilon) due to headaches and bad mood swings, I also have mental health probs- depression.

Loestrin is the first pill I've tried that didn't cause horrendous side effects, and has made my periods both lighter and less painful.

YANBU, I bloody despise the evil things, have been to hell and back with them, missed things, being carted off in an ambulance, on Morphine etc. I am in a quandry too as to what to do with them. Have you tried asking to see a Gyny?.

Try the Mirena coil it's fab and no more tampon shopping

another mirena fan here, haven't had a period for 8.5 years.

Isn't the mirena the same hormone as cerazette? I have been bleeding more or less constantly since July, fobbed off by gp and given cerazette but I hate it - zero libido, constant bleeding, enormous insatiable appetite. I'm stopping it next week as I have been suicidal recently and can't cope with it all. Goit a gp appt in a month to discuss it further.

I would love the ablation but am only 32 and not 100% sure my family is done - giving it until I'm 35 to decide though, as women in my family hit menopause in late 50s and I can't deal with 20 more years of this crap!!

So yanbu at all op!

Mirena is lower dose than cerazette, because it's internal so it can be. So supposedly there are fewer side-effects (although some women still have a very bad time on it).

I'm starting to toy with the idea of the Mirena myself -- have always been reluctant because I turn into an evil witch on the mini-pill, but now I'm starting to get what I think is perimenopausal flooding and it's going to need something hormonal to knock it on the head.

The thing that concerns me is lots of women on MN saying that their GP was very reluctant to take the Mirena out when they did experience side-effects. I'd be happy to give it a few months but I don't want to wind up with long-term side-effects and having to fight a battle to get it taken out.

Debbie

I have done better on Mirena than on the mini-pill

I also think I'm perimenopausal but since there's no periods, the symptoms are more mood-based

The gp told me that you can keep the Mirena in for longer (10 years, I think) post 45 and that if you take HRT, of course it won't need to include progesterone

Lastly, Debbie

My first Mirena took about 6 months to settle down. But it was put in only about 3 months after my first vaginal delivery and my uterus was very grumbly. Lots of spotting and daily irritating pain. It got me down badly and I nearly had it out. I am very glad I didn't because once it settled it really settled.