Just utterly fed up with it all now.

[rosesinmygarden]

I've been suffering with heavy painful periods for years. It all came to a head last summer when I bled so much I became very anaemic. It was so bad I couldn't get out of bed.

The GP prescribed tranexamic acid and sent me for a scan which showed fibroids and a polyp.

I was told the waiting list for a gynae appt in my area was 2-3 years. So, we went down the private route and I had surgery about 3.5 months ago.

He removed the fibroids and did an ablation. He could not see a polyp. He inserted a mirena coil.

3.5 months later I'm still having heavy and painful periods. They are marginally shorter but it is not the result I had hoped for. He did say that the mirena may take 3-6 months to settle but I'm really so upset and fed up with it all at the moment. He's written to my GP to say the next step is hysterectomy.

The tranexamic acid doesn't help and painkillers don't give me very much relief as the pain is so bad.

It doesn't help that my cycle has shortened to around 24-26 days and I'm spotting all over the place so maybe getting a week of freedom each month.

Amazingly this week my NHS appt came through! It's a telephone one, so probably just a way of them saying I've been 'seen'.
I don't expect anything to happen any time soon and I'm so depressed by it all.

I'm also overweight and finding it very hard to lose weight while working from home. I probably need to shift at least 3 stone.

Does anyone have experience of their periods getting more bearable when losing weight? I'm seriously considering a VLCD for a couple of months and I think I might just gave the will power to do it if it was likely to help with the period side of things too.

Thank everyone. I feel better this afternoon and have been chatting with my best friend who is following low carb and has lost lots. She's offered to share all her meal plans etc so I'm going to give it a go.

If you need to have another ablation I would go for microwave or a frequency. The cutting type makes is very difficult to get into the corners of your uterus abs any lining left will 'grow' back throughout. Sadly being head of gynae doesn't mean expert at every operation. Though it should from a woman's POV.

I feel your pain (literally!). I had a mirena put in to try and help with heavy bleeding caused by fibroids and it made things worse rather than better! Also had a shorter cycle, still had heavy bleeding and had to take tranexamic acid and had pains like I’d never had in my life. I was given the pill to take as well but felt awful on it and had a migraine after 3 weeks so had to stop. Then they threw norestherine at it to try and stop the bleeding between periods and ended up with a bleed so heavy the mirena came out!
I also went down the private route due to NHS wait times and had uterine artery embolisation for the fibroids but it’s been nearly a year since that and I’m still getting bleeding with spotting either side totalling up to 10 days on a 23-24 day cycle, still having to take tranexamic acid on heavy days (flooded superplus tampax in under 2 hours without it) and I just feel like crap when I’m on my period. It felt like womb was going to explode earlier in the week. I’m getting a lot of random abdominal pains.
I’m waiting on a GP call next week but honestly don’t have high hopes for them coming up with a solution. I’m getting to the point where I’d happily have a hysterectomy if it meant I don’t have another 8-10years of this before the menopause!

Hi I am new to this so would appreciate any advise.
I am 44 years old and premenopausal and for nearly a year have been having heavier periods and spotting in between. I have a sore lower back all the time which goes into my hip although my GP says it’s sciatica and unrelated to my heavier periods. I have had an ultrasound which showed a thickened womb lining of 22mm although it was around day 25 of my cycle. I have been referred to a gynaecologist but there is a waiting list of a year and half just for first appointment. Am I mad to wait this length or should I consider going private!