many and long periods

habladora · 08-02-2004, 02:06 AM

hey peoples i have been meaning to ask this for a while but i have found that most women with pcos who i have read about have few or rare periods, and they take bcp's and such to get them ovulating agian...but i havent found really anybody that is like me...but maybe i havent looked hard enough. Anyway, do any of you experience many many periods that are prolonged like a lot longer than a week? i go to see the pediatric endo. on thursday and i guess its weird that instead of me having few periods i get way to many...i'll ask i guess..thanks girls!

dreamerofbabies · 08-02-2004, 02:52 AM

My sister and I both have pcos. However we r exact opposites. I have no visits from AF, and she has to many. Her cycles are long and heavy also. She also has hyperplasia. You may want to ask the dr about that also. Good luck.

p.s. my sister is zaiser on this board if u wish to talk with her

dreamy28 · 08-02-2004, 03:16 AM

Hi! I just wanted to let you know that I will be turning 30 this fall. I wasn't officially diagnosed until I was in my mid 20s but I believe that I have had PCOS since before hitting puberty. I got my period when I was 11 and I had it for nearly a month. I was put on the pill to prevent "going anemic" as my family doctor said at the time. I stayed on the pill for a year but I gained a lot of weight and retained a lot of water and my testosterone level was really high. They blamed all of this on the birth control pill so they took me off of it. When I was 13 I had the worst period of my life.... it would go for days on end, would stop for a few hours, and then come back. Heavy clots, and I used to have to wear a tampon and a pad just to get through each class. In between classes I would run to the bathroom to change.... I had to skip gym class and on the weekends I didn't go out for fear of having an accident. I went back on the pill but a different kind, and stayed on it until I was nearly 20. Since then, I never have a period on my own, even though I have been taking metformin for over a year now. It had been 8 months since my last period so at the end of June my doctor prescribed me 10 days of Provera at 10mgs per day. I took it for the whole 10 days and then five days after stopping it I had a period. I just finished AF last week. The period was quite heavy but not like when I was 13.

Good luck at the pediatic endocrinologist and let us know what s/he says and how you're doing!

God bless,
Kelley (dreamy28)

adriley · 08-02-2004, 10:56 AM

habladora,
I have gone both ways, I have had years where I only had AF once, and I have had years when it when on and on for several months.
Both are due to PCOS, when you go so long without one, sometimes the buildup of the uterine lining becomes too much and that is when you go much longer.

hang in there, there is a LOT they can do for this now, when I was first being treated, there was nothing they could do to help me.

makeitsomeday · 08-02-2004, 12:14 PM

Hi all,

I have been both ways too. When I was a teen, I didn't get my period until I was 14. It was sporadic, and I thought this was normal. Later in life, in my 20's, I had heavy periods that lasted a week or more. Now, I am on BCP's, glu ER, Spironolactone, and I spot and have light periods for about a week before AF is due, and then AF appears and stays around for about a week. So I have never been normal. Has any one ever experienced normalcy after a track record like this?

habladora · 08-03-2004, 02:38 AM

thank you all so much for your replies! i am glad to know that my periods are pcos-like and that they'll be treated. i didnt get my period till i was nearly 14 so maybe i am making up for lost time? lol....i'll keep y'all posted about my big appiontment

dreamy28 · 08-09-2004, 10:01 PM

How did your appointment go habladora?

habladora · 08-11-2004, 02:20 AM

my appointment was fine...i am now working up to 2000 mg of met a day and i was on iron pills (but then they did a test and figured out i wasnt in any loss of blood), and now i am on ortho-cyclen bcp, but they are switching me to yasmin in a month. the doc just basically wasnt much help and didnt tell me anything i didnt know...he just told me to lose weight. ugh he made me so mad b/c he spoke to me like was 3 yrs old.. oh well w/e....thanks for caring girls!