Prolonged bleeding and pain...

Hi ladies !! I am officially pain free... well not for another few days but the problem was found and sorted out. I want to share what happened - maybe one day someone else on the forum could do with the information and the experience I have had the past year.
I went to see my gynae that delivered my son via emergency c-sec, and when I rocked up at his rooms - my hospital bag was waiting in the car. I went in and told him, "my bag is in the car". So on thursday evening 20h05pm I was pushed into theatre for my Laparascopy, Hysterascopy and DD+C. When I woke up after the 2 and a half hours in theatre, I felt like I was dying - the pain was something out of this world. I was taken back to my ward, given an injection to make me sleep for at least 10 hours. I woke up yesterday morning with my dr by my side, he closed the curtains and said " you really did have a problem - and if it was left untreated for 3 more months then there would have been nothing we could have done for you"..... MY WARNING AND ADVISE TO ALL LADIES: IF YOUR GUT TELLS YOU SOMETHING IS WRONG! DO NOT LEAVE IT, FOLLOW YOUR GUT. The Dr's that saw me in Nov 2010 could just as well have caused my death in myh opinion.
What happened was that I had a growth in the womb that caused the bleeding - It had nothing to do with the depo shot. But - what the major problem was : Dr opened me up and immidiatly saw that all my muscles and layers of fat had grown right onto my uterus, womb - whatever... and this was not only causing pain, but this also led to the misdiagnosis of my spastic colon. the fat and muscles that had grown onto eachother actually pushed my intestines closed in a way. this is where the pain was coming from. My dr said its rare but does happen after c-sections. Now I am sitting here, for the first time in a long time with no pains around my ovaries ect. just the soreness of the two cuts involved where the had to cut and burn. The dr has sent this unusual growth thing in, and on Monday I will get the results. Please ladies - if you do not get the answers to your problems, keep going back!!!!! Thank you all for listening, and be blessed.

Good Morning ladies-
My appointment with Dr is tomorrow morning at 09h00am... I cannot wait. I decided to wait until tomorrow rather than going to the emergency room ect, seeing as I have lived through it for almost 6 months - I thought another few days would not be that hard, but something new has hapenned... HOT FLUSHES... and I mean really bad ones... I am walking around at work constantly complaining hot damn hot it is, this has been hapenning from Saturday now, mostly during the day, less at night? O my goodness it sucks big time, I am having severe cramping since then aswell, really cramps like af but somehow diffrent. The bleeding is not as bad, I wake up every morning, get up, bleeding and then it tampers off during the day, but the next morning it is all back, and so it goes on.
I have never been so excited to see my Gynae in my life, just to figure out and to stop it!!!

Hi Rhodine

My advice would be to try see your gynae a.s.a.p, you could maybe even ask the receptionist if you could just walk in and wait till he has seen all his patients.
Out of personal experience if your gut says it aint normal then it aint.
I started extreme bleeding mid November last year, saw my old gynae mid Decembre and he said its normal coz of the PCOS and after doing a scan i could see he saw something but he only came back with a script for Cyklo (which only made my problem worse). It got so bad i couldnt even use tampons and could only use night pads every half hour. The bleeding persisted and eventually i couldnt go to work. Jan 5th I saw a FS in Durban who examined me and said my previous gynae just did more harm than anything. Gave me tabs to stop bleeding and after 10 days i got a normal period.
I am so finicky now, if i have a problem i don't keep quiet until it is sorted.
Your mind will keep wondering until you finally get answers.
Goodluck girl hope you get sorted

Asprin is really not ideal if you are in that much pain. I suggest you could see your gp who will be able to give you something like celebrex which is safer for the tummy.

Thanks Julz -
Right now I am taking Neurofen Period Tablets - which do not work, so then turned to Lenapais - which is not for period pains - but I take them, and then this morning was desprate enought to buy Excedrin Powders as they say "for the effective relief of dysmenorrhoea (painful periods" but took them without reading the part where it says "553mg Aspirin, 276mg Paracetamol, 33mg Caffeine Citrare and 8mg Caffeine Anhydrous" so the aspirin has caused my ulcers to burn like hell on top of the lower abdominal pain... feels like a losing battle. I wanted to go tho the chemist now to get something else, will wait 8 hours before I try something else, inbetween all the pains I think I should give my body a gap to react to something.

I was thinking to wait untill after the weekend and if by Monday the pains ect still percists I will go to hospital. Weekends are tough with me wanting my bf with me the whole time and it is difficult with my lo.

thanks ladies

With regards to going to casualty, I recon if your pain is managed with regular pain killers and you don't feel faint you could probably wait to see your doc.

I hope that the doctor explained that taking certain medications are not ideal if you have stomach ulcers. Anything with anti inflamare not a good idea.

Shame Rhodine. I feel the same way. Neil and I argue for hours before I let him take me to caualty.

Firstly anything that is out of the ordinary for you should be considered abnormal!

The tests that were done sound standard and it sounds like you may not have anthing to worry about regarding organs etc, but heavy bleeding and pain isn't normal and I don't think you should have to wait it out.

We have been brought up to think that painful periods are normal and okay when in fact we shouldn't have pain.

It is perfectly normal to have a cyst on the ovary, infact we get one every single month as this is what contains the egg that is released during ovulation. The surgeon would usually be able to tell quite easliy if it needed further investigation so I wouldn't worry about the cyst if it were you.

I suggest you speak directly to your gynae. As RM says birth control pill may sort it out but he should do a scan and look at other possible causes of this bleeding.

Good luck and let us know how you are.