Hello. I flood heavily, sometimes for months on end. This has been going on for almost 20 years and I'm anaemic. I've had blood transfusions in the past for anaemia. I've been under gynae care at the hospital for this time. They've done hysteroscopies and removed fibroids. I've been told I have endometriosis, and then it's never been documented or mentioned again, I have atypical endometrial hyperplasia and pcos. Also mention of adenomyosis. Again, not documented anywhere.
About 8 years ago, I had a mirena coil inserted to stop the bleeding, which didn't work and it expelled itself. The gynae won't do a hysterectomy which I've requested, due my high bmi. I'm working on this and down 2 stone.
The doctor put me on provera tablets to help the bleeding and also the endometrial hyperplasia, to stop it becoming cancerous. It made me bleed just the same, if not more.
I've also tried norethisterone, which sometimes works, but the bleeding and pain after I have stopped is horrendous. Tranexamic acid works intermittently and my GP won't try me on mefanamic acid as he says it doesn't work.
Very reluctantly, with persuasion from my ghnae, I agreed four weeks ago to have the mirena coil again. For about a week or two, I almost stopped bleeding. Hooray! I've started bleeding again though. When I contacted my gynae, he said it can take six months to stop the bleeding. I can't wait six months! It's wrecking my life. Is this true what he says though? Six months?!