GP refused pill

[ellie7347]

Hi, my daughter who is 15 soon has had awful periods since she started them a year ago. Cycles anywhere from 18-35 days, lasting up to 8 days, heavy at times. In the last few months she has started to get bad cramps and gastro symptoms such as nausea and diarrhoea. She has missed because of this.

Went to see GP last month who refused to put her on the pill as it is not natural and she had to wait another two years to see if they were going to settle. So we got Mefenamic Acid. This does help the pain but she is still getting nausea/diarrohea. Plus cycle is so hit and miss.

She wants to go on the pill but would seeing another GP make any difference. She is coming up to her GCSE years and cannot afford to be this affected by her periods. I was thinking about taking her to the contraceptive clinic but no doubt she would have to say she was planning to have sex.

I went on the pill at her age for same reasons and it changed my life.

Just wondering if anyone had any suggestions

It doesn't really fit the symptoms for endometriosis. The pain is bad but not severe, it's more the all round upset stomach, feel yucky, not knowing when the period is going to come and the fact it goes on for up to 8 days. I wouldn't say she loses more blood than an average period rather that it's spread out over more days.

I started mine at 11 from being 12 they were heavy sometimes bleeding for two weeks straight very heavily. I was back and forth to my gp with my mum. He sent me for scans tests nothing came back untoward so he just said hormonal it will sort itself out. By this time I was 14. He then left the practice and another female doctor took his place. When I was 15 I went to see her and she said straight away let's try the contraceptive pill. Told me how it worked etc including the regulation of periods and how to keep myself from getting pregnant in the future (I wasn't sexually active at the time) and she didn't ask me if I was either. I never looked back from that point.

Not natural? FFS like antibiotics or maybe consulting a Dr?

G to another GP or to a FP clinic. I would also investigate longer term contraceptives like the jab or implant.

Even on the pill I had heavy periods lasting a week, the injection did change my life, I got absolutely nothing, no pain, no period nothing.

And btw you are a fantastic mum, mine wasn't happy when I went on the pill at 17, I was throwing up every month ffs.

Definitely get a second opinion. My mum took me to the gp when I was 13 to do this and the GP was a staunch Italian catholic an wouldn't prescribe it. Another doctor in the surgery did however.

My DD who is now 49 was put on the pill when she was 12 for horrendous heavy and extremely long periods. Her GP referred her to a gynaecologist as she was severely anaemic.
The family planning clinics are not allowed (officially) to prescribe for medical reasons only for contraceptive purposes.

Dd was prescribed the pill at 15 to sort her skin out so nothing to do with periods or safety. See another GP, complain about the first too and help your poor daughter. No one should simply put up with extreme pain every month in this day and age.

Definitely see another GP for s second opinion. Why should she have to put up with pain and suffering unnecessarily, stupid bloody woman (the GP, not you). I was on the pill from 14 for similar reasons, I was missing a week of school every month!

Hi. Thanks MJ for the reply. We got sorted last week with the pill from another GP - lovely locum.