icky girlstuff rant!

[baratron]

I am sick of bleeding!

A few months ago I came off some tablets that had stopped my periods altogether. I wasn't terribly bothered about this because it was a known side-effect, and actually it was rather cool - the tablets affected my hormone levels and made it practically impossible for me to have become pregnant. I had to come off those tablets because they were only meant as a temporary measure to help with extreme anxiety that I was suffering - the long-term side-effects are nasty. So my periods have returned. In an interesting way.

First, I had a heavy period. Then, I had another one 2 weeks later. Then I had another one 10 days after that. Now, my body's settled down to a sort of low-grade bleeding. Continually, for the past 3 weeks.

This is driving me nuts! I want to go back to proper periods that last 4 or 5 days and come once a month, not this horrid permanent thing.

I talked to the doctor about it and there's nothing actually wrong, just my body readjusting its hormone levels. But it's a pain.

Comments

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Argh, so irritating! I had very weird bleeding on Norplant, too, but it never went that long.

Glad you talked to your doctor. Could you go on the Pill or something, or would that be a bad plan given other meds?

[elynne.livejournal.com]

From what I remember, back when I was getting the Noroplant Orientation, Noroplant and "the pill" Do Not Mix. I could be misremembering, or things could have changed in the meantime.

But I certainly sympathise with the bleeding thing. Oh, do I. :p Noroplant has been wonderful for preventing me from getting pregnant, though it's been an absolute pain in the uterus for many other things - the time when I had four periods in one month took the cake. Wheee!

[jinian.livejournal.com]

(I wrote that badly; I had Norplant, H-L just has her tablets to mess things up.)

[baratron.livejournal.com]

I could go on the Pill, but I don't really want to. Before I was on these tablets, my periods were always very predictable - I knew not only what day one would start, but whether it would come in the morning, afternoon or evening. I'm assuming that when my hormones settle down, I'll go back to that.

I've always resisted going on the Pill because I seem to have inherited the same menstrual characteristics as all of the women in my mum's family. Several of them have tried several different Pills and they have all had far more problems on them than off, including one who went a bit psycho on it and ended up on Prozac for a year. Also, I really don't like interfering with my body's natural functions unless I can clearly see the benefits (eg. in the case of my antidepressants, which have very obvious benefits). I'll just have to wait for things to settle.

[inquis.livejournal.com]

Several of them have tried several different Pills and they have all had far more problems on them than off, including one who went a bit psycho on it and ended up on Prozac for a year.

How strange... I complained to my doctor about exactly that effect, that taking the pill seemed to have been making me depressed, as I had stopped taking it because I was too busy to go to the doctors and get a represcription. My moods suddenly improved dramatically. But when I spoke to my doctor about it, he looked puzzled and said he'd never heard of that happening with the brand of pill I had been on, but tried me on a different one, which didn't appear to affect my mood at all which was good, but I was too paranoid about it really, and decided to come off them altogether.

Hope your hormones sort themselves out soon :o)