Two week period- and going!

[MadamePewter]

I’m fifty. Up til now periods pretty much regular as clockwork, though very heavy

Got this one a week early and still going, though not heavy, two weeks later 😱

Is this menopause..? Anyone else had this?

Thank you @MadamePewter - it's been a tough week and the coming week has some serious work challenges. Trying to unpick if I'm overwhelmed (grief/ car/ new job) or if it could be meds.
Feel so torn - not bleeding is fab, and having some reassurance I'm not going to flood but these feelings are horrible.

@tibni it’s difficult to unpick it all, especially after weeks of bleeding so 💐

I am definitely anxious on it though, I’ve noticed it before when just delaying a period.

I hope this week is better for you than last. Though that’s not a high bar, to be fair!

Well ... @MadamePewter I've had a call from the police and they have found my car! Side window, number plate, screwdriver to door lock and ignition and few chips on paint from where they smashed glass but overall it's ok! They took sat nav but not my spare knickers
Major work day tomorrow and just glad to know not bleeding although I'm still wearing protection out the house just in case!

@tibni good news about the car.. and emergency knickers 😂

Glad they have found your car, Tibni. And your spare knickers too.😂

I’m saying this really quietly in case it hears me but......it’s stopped ! I haven’t bled since Friday night after 9 long weeks. Too scared to get excited about it though 😬

@AnxiousAnnie01 oh, that’s great... fingers crossed!

An update: I’ve been for my scan and she reckons adenymyosis and bulky uterus (!) At least a possible explanation. Consultant next week

Adenomyosis even. And not menopausal as ovaries still functioning

AnxiousAnnie01, glad it seems to be stopping for you. Fingers crossed.

MadamePewter, glad you have had your scan, and have at least a suggestion of what the problem might be. I hope the consultant is sympathetic next week and listens properly to you. Fingers crossed for answers and proper treatment.

I am still trying to decide whether to keep this sodding mirena coil. Bleeding is less now, though still there. However, I am irritable and sad a lot of the time for no clear reason, which has really crept up on me since it went in. Nothing is really right anymore and hasn't been since. I can't put more of a finger on it than that.

Good luck to everyone again.

@MadamePewter it sounds like you are one step closer to getting some help. Not sure what adenmyosis is so will have to have a look x

Scans appointment arrived, 3rd March. Inside and out. I dropped meds to 2 rather than 3 and the anxiety has reduced.
Recovered car is off to repair and I have recovered my emergency knickers
Not looking forward to end of meds and bleeding again.

@tibni positive news!

I had consultant today. He was absolutely horrible. Pushed the Mirena (!) said that and ablation before consider hysterectomy and called me hugely fat (I’m 5’8 and a 14-16). Wouldn’t let me speak or answer my questions. I was really upset. Horrible day.

Oh MadamePewter, that's bad. Why do they push the mirena like that? Ablation isn't guaranteed to solve all of the problems either.

Maybe go back to your GP and tell them what happened? Press for a referral to someone else?

I have a GP appointment on Tuesday. I want to discuss what might happen if I have my mirena removed. Even though the bleeding has dropped to virtually nothing now, I often feel sad, irritable and annoyed for little obvious reason. I am worried because I think I might also be just starting to gain weight again, which as a type 2 diabetic is the last thing I can really afford to do. My appetite is inexplicably increasing though, which I have read is sometimes a side effect of the hormone used (remember that such hormones are also the body's own steroids).

I think it all comes down to money. The NHS is run by accountants. Mirena is cheaper than other options, so it is policy that it is pushed relentlessly. It doesn't suit every woman, and makes for a pretty poor service in women's health.

He was also way out of line with his comments to you. I'd consider contacting PALS. I don't think I could continue to have any treatment by him. All confidence would be completely gone.

Who the hell does he think he is?

Thanks @topseyt. He spoke to me with contempt. Yes, I’m an overweight middle aged woman, but I’m fit, I go to PT truce a week, do classes and run. And I have an extremely responsible, if very party time, job. I’m not a fat fool, but I left feeling like a worthless blob.

Part time, sadly not party time job 😃

@MadamePewter that's horrible. I don't get what Is normal for so many women is treated with such distain by medics.
I'm concerned about hormone options as just the tablets are really not suiting me. With a new and difficult job I need to be on form

@tibni I don’t understand it either.

And it’s perfectly reasonable to be concerned about hormone treatment that makes you feel weird.

He just snapped at me that I could take the northeristerone for three weeks a month or keep bleeding. I tried to question how I would manage the torrent in between that means I can’t leave the house, and the feelings of anxiety, but he seemed angry and said only way stop bleeding.

It’s weird, I wouldn’t accept being spoken to like that normally! But ended up leaving crying with the very lovely nurses offering a drink and a seat...

@MadamePewter that's awful that you were spoken to like that.

If they can't help, they should ADMIT that they're not sure how to help you but that there are a few things that they can TRY!

I am seeing a GP at the women's clinic tomorrow morning. I've had a month to think about it since I went in a panic in January and got 10 days provera. I want to be put on a pill, back to back so I get no periods. I hope that she won't push a mirena on me. I don't want that.

This wouldn't be acceptable in men's health.

I also highly doubt that this arse would have spoken to another man in that way. He shouldn't be working in gynaecology.

@TheYearOfTheDogI did think afterwards he wouldn’t have spoken to a man like that. I’ve been to consultant appointments with my man and it’s chalk and cheese.

Thanks all. And good luck tomorrow @

@TheYearOfTheDog

I can well believe it. At work I spend 20 minutes of every day repeating what my male colleague only needed to say once!

Well I am relieved to have six month's worth of a tablet (pill) i can take back to back. She wasnt going to give me 6 month's worth but I really pushed. "Im busy/each apt 55 euro/a day's leave/low bp/ non smoker/no symptoms of pill could be worse than flooding".....
3 month's worth is nothing. This thread has nearly been running as long and has any of us sorted it out yet?
So with my assertive head on, i pushed hard for 6 months.

There may still be blleeding to begin with as uteruscwall thins but once it settles then ill bevwhere i need to be. No periods!

The pill is called Azalia. Must google.

Oh yes she did mention a mirena but i said "im not considering that".

This was "just" a gp btw, not a consultant but she was nice. Understood everything.

Men shouldnt be consultants in this area if they cant understand the impact of heavy unpredictable periods!