Re: Females and Menstrual Problems?

May 20, 2003

In a message dated 5/20/2003 12:24:09 PM Central Daylight Time,

LymeConfused@... writes:

> Wonder if anyone can shed some light on this for me...

> Over the last year or so my periods have been odd... I " ll have 3 OK

> months where I don't become bed bound with my cycle and then on that 3 rd

> month Whamo! The flow on the first day is as heavy as what it should be

> over

> 3 days, I get VERY VERY weak, EXTREMELY fatigued, My legs hurt, I get dizzy

>

> and feel faint all day and night, when I stand up I want to pass out and my

>

> legs are so weak it feels like they wont hold me up because I'm shakey, My

> blood pressure goes low, Nausea, no appetite. By the second day the flow

> slows a little bit but I still feel like the above but a tad better.. I end

>

> up spending a full week in bed and then it takes a week maybe longer when

> its

> over to recover... I DO have Babesia as well as Erlichia and Lyme.. Has

> ANYONE else had this happen to them? If so do you know WHAT it is and what

> can be done to STOP it? I almost wound up in the ER this month.. Today is

> my

> second day of my cycle and I " m still not sure if I wont end up there..

> Thank You

>

How old are you? I am doing pretty much the same thing. I am 48 almost 49.

My ob/gyn tried to tell me I could die and then gave me birth control pills

saying it they would help me stop. Well they slowed me down all right and

kept me spotting a whole month. I went and had a pap smear and everything

was fine he said so since then I just load up with a tampon and thick pad and

change about every 2 to 3 hours. I figure if its going to get me then let it

be untill I fall over. The doc said the birth control pills had the hormone

I was missing is why he gave them to me. I frankly am sick of dealing with

everything at times and just try to ignore it all as much as possible. After

what I have been through with the lyme and dumb docs around here I would

rather take my chances than let them screw me up and get paid for doing it.

Sinaj

May 20, 2003

Mine are every other month,, and the bleeding is heavy heavy heavy, my blood

pressure is always low and worse when i get my cycle..stops and starts draging

it out to 10 days, used to be 3 days light and gone.. now it just should go

completely away, I am old enough, I am fixed, I don't need to deal with this..

YUCK

I miscarried 2 times, had 1 at 4 months which stopped growing at 2 months

taken..but had 3 full terms in there some how.. I can relate to issues like

this and have had my fill of it all...hope that helps.. if you call it that

Wonder if anyone can shed some light on this for me...

Over the last year or so my periods have been odd... I " ll have 3 OK

months where I don't become bed bound with my cycle and then on that 3 rd

month Whamo! The flow on the first day is as heavy as what it should be over

3 days, I get VERY VERY weak, EXTREMELY fatigued, My legs hurt, I get dizzy

and feel faint all day and night, when I stand up I want to pass out and my

legs are so weak it feels like they wont hold me up because I'm shakey, My

blood pressure goes low, Nausea, no appetite. By the second day the flow

slows a little bit but I still feel like the above but a tad better.. I end

up spending a full week in bed and then it takes a week maybe longer when its

over to recover... I DO have Babesia as well as Erlichia and Lyme.. Has

ANYONE else had this happen to them? If so do you know WHAT it is and what

can be done to STOP it? I almost wound up in the ER this month.. Today is my

second day of my cycle and I " m still not sure if I wont end up there..

Thank You

May 20, 2003

You may need extra iron. I take iron and folic acid and flax seed oil. I still

have bad periods but I am not stuck in bed anymore. These three vitamins have

helped me.

Lynnelle

May 20, 2003

Funny but my iron levels are always on the higher, opposed to the lower side,

even in pregnancy which always baffled DUCKS...I might look at the flax seed oil

but not sure about that either..everyone is different,, I look at things this

way:

until I get real facts like my levels are off somewhere I don't want to start

adding things in to rule out problems I might not have..

like working anything,you don't go throwing all these new parts in if you don't

need them.. it can place stress on some of the parts you didn't replace and

cause a major problem. then you have to start all over from scratch and figure

what you did to create a new problem you didn't have to begin with. I like the

process of elimination much better: start off slow and work through the problem

with deductive reasoning...

Not everyone does this but it always works for me. I found when I was younger I

used to be impulsive and get into big trouble by jumping on something,, I have

learned to pick through things and get my facts before I jump on things,, cost

less in the end.....

You may need extra iron. I take iron and folic acid and flax seed oil. I

still have bad periods but I am not stuck in bed anymore. These three vitamins

have helped me.

Lynnelle

May 20, 2003

I've had really painful menstruations ever since I first got my

period. I'm 21 now, and even on birth control pills (used to control

hormone levels...which I'm assuming mine are pretty wacky) I'm still

having real heavy flows that last 6-7 days a month. I have severe

pain in the abdominal region, low blood pressure, loss of appetite,

and feel like passing out. In fact, once in high school I did pass

out for a few seconds because the pain was overwhelming and blood

pressure was probally low. I ended up in the ER and my doc started me

on a low dose of horomone tablets...but if I ever missed a day my

period would come and occasionally had bleed throughs and the pain

was the same. So the prescription was bumped up...no more bleed

throughs but I still have to make sure not to miss a day and the pain

is really excrutiating. I really feel for you...sometimes I wish I

could just trade in my uterus!

Bridget in MN

May 20, 2003

Watch the hormone pills,,

I was on " therapy " for years: cycrin was the only thing that helped me from the

heavy, irregular bleeding, and believe me they tried everything, most would

cause me to bleed more! I found through trial and error, once I bled for 7 weeks

straight they told me to continue the treatment my iron count was fine. I walked

out of there and threw the pills in the garbage and the next day the bleeding

stopped..

I finally found a doctor who would try different things,, she put me on Prozac

to help my " events " and cycrin which was my savior of the bleeding and pains,,

after 4 years on this, I was finally regular and stopped 2 years later I started

to have the heavy bleeding again,, I was too old to start the cycrin again.. (

so now I just cringe the week before and grit my teeth till it's

over...permanently over.. I have been " fixed " for 6 years and anxious to be rid

of my torture...

Do look into the cycrin, it took me many years to find something that worked

this well..

I do know everyone is different and it may not work for you, but the dose has to

be right or it won't. They kept increasing the doses and making them stronger,

which would make me bleed more,, so something was wrong with their logic there!

USUALLY IS!

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