Period-like vaginal bleeding for 4 weeks
Kinda graphic:
Background: I’m 27 year-old female. I have 1 child and had a miscarriage in November 2005. I have gained a significant amount of weight over the past 2 years (about 50 lbs). I believe that I may have PCOS, because I have had abnormal or no periods over the past 2 years in addition to acne, some facial hair growth and symptoms of metabolic syndrome (boderline cholesterol, glucose, and carrying most of my weight around my middle.)
My question is this; I started my period on July 2, 2008. Nothing crazy, not real heavy, no cramping or anything. It lasted for about 5 days (like usual for me). I stopped for about 2 days and then started bleeding again. Not just spotting, I mean… full-blown period. This bleeding has been going on for about 4 weeks, and I am STILL bleeding! I thought it was worse in the AM, so I was thinking fibroids, but now I’ve realized that it is heavy all day long. It’s also more of a brighter red than I am used to for menstrual bleeding. I know that PCOS affects your hormones and maybe something is going on inside of me that is telling my body to bleed. I am starting to have cramps and feeling very tired. I have been taking Iron supplements and Ibuprofen to ease the cramping. And I have especially been having pain in my lower left side. I have had 1 ovarian cyst before, but this hurts waaaay worse.
Whats going on? Any ideas? I am sick of this. I do not have health insurance so I don’t want to go run up a bill at the hospital, but I am getting tired of this. I feel like the punchline of that joke, :why shouldn’t you ever trust a women? Because you don’t trust anything that can bleed for five days straight and not die!
By the way I’m a RN, so please don’t yell at me. Please let me know if anyone else has had anything like this.
You HAVE to see a doctor! No one on here can diagnose you.
wow thats just nasty ew cant think of my period like that have you tried going to a doctor? Maybe SHE can help you maybe thats just happening because since the beginning of you period didnt really have such an effect its just happening again or somethin like that. But still i reccomend going to a doctor so that SHE can help you with this problem. = )
If you are an RN I’d tell you what you already know is the right answer. Go to see your gyno. Sorry. I don’t have health insurance either but bleeding for 4 weeks makes me think that you don’t have much of a choice.