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Period suppression is currently a very hot topic. Will you (or do you already) take prescription meds to stop your period, or to have less periods a year? Why or why not?

My own hell on earth thanks to BC

Posted by: merime on Fri Oct 30, 2009
I had been on and off pretty much every birth control pill on the market and even tried the ring for a while, got depo pretty much everything short of IUD starting at age 13 due to PCOS (at that age it was just to control the cysts since they had no clue it was PCOS til I was 19). I stopped taking any form of synthetic hormone when I was 23 cuz I noticed that while it didn't stop the cysts or really regulate my cycle at all I was MISERABLE. I would get severe PMS and gain weight or have terrible cramps and tons of bleeding. The bad thing is even after stopping the synthetic hormones none of these things got better. Right now I am 29 and my mood swings have gotten so bad that while my close family loves me they don't like me, I can't have a real relationship due to the intensity of my mood swings, I am bed ridden for the first 3 days of my period every single month due to cramps, I bleed so heavy that I end up having to change pads (tampons just fall right out since they get so soaked so fast) every 1-2 hours, and I struggle every single day to control my weight (I've lost about 70lbs in the last year and had to work seriously hard to do that but still need to get rid of about 30lbs more). I seen more GYN's than that lady with 18 kids to try to help me and find a non-synthic hormone solution but all except the last one have all said the only thing they can do is give me BC and have me wait for menopause.
At 29yrs old I found a doctor with a solution-a full hysterectomy. So right now I am waiting for the medical ethics review board to tell the doc that even tho I'm young and have no kids this is my only chance to live a "normal" life. All thanks to years of accepting the doctors orders of taking BC to "help" me.
Be careful what you wish for ladies. Wanting a pill or shot to make your period go away for a while could lead to no kids, no uterus, no ovaries and years of a living hell.
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