Re: Severe PMS

[Curlymoe115]

Instead of anti-depressants have you tried the birth control patch. I used it for 5 years straight. No period, no problem. Once every year I would have to remove it, have a break through period, then go back on it. This may eliminate the worst of your symptoms. You don’t know until you try. My mother had a hysterectomy when she was 42, she was bleeding period heavy on a daily basis. My sister and I both had constant bleeding for years, she went for the depo shot and this worked for the first 6 months but the second time it didn’t work at all. I had the balloon appellation where they put a balloon full of 200 degree water into the cavity and burn off the lining of the uterus. 98 percent of women who get this done never have a period again. In their life. I, of course, am part of the other 2 percent, and within days it had started again. Then my doctor prescribed the patch. No periods, no pms, no problems. When I had to have the balloon therapy they had fixed me, so it wasn’t as though we wanted more children. And I didn’t miss the sore breasts, mood swings, nervousness, panic attacks and all the other things that went with “the curse”. I have now been off the patch for 6 months with no return to the bleeding. My periods now last 2 or 3 light days instead of 5 heavy days. I do get the soreness, and some of the other symptoms lightly but the worst of it is gone. Maybe I am ready to embrace “the change” as I have been getting more hot flashes and other symptoms. I had a friend who had the whole enchillada removed and she has worse symptoms then a lot of women who only have the uterus removed. So if you do decide to go the hysterectomy route make sure they leave the ovaries.

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