OK, here's my story...
I have been bleeding off and on(mostly on) for the past going on three months now.
Large, no, HUGE clots at times, lots of flooding episodes...then watery pink for days, then I go thru about a week or week and a half of the horrible thing...to the point of anemia.
We were suppose to go on vacation this week and the hurricanes down near Florida have put a damper on that and so did my news at the GYN.
I went to a new one(I switched due to insurance problems and I didn't like the way my other gyn handled my stillbirth of my baby in September 2003.
So this doctor I went to, she is literally a new doctor. This is her first practice.
Now, seeing my history...I had a d&c in 1998 and it came back benign endometrial hyperplasia..put on Prometrium 400mg a day to control( I was heavier back then by about 30 pounds so I required that much). OK, I was on this until July of 2002 when I went on a big weight loss plan and lost 100 pounds! I got to go off it because of the weight loss it just made my hormones go back to normal. THen in May of 2003 was when I became pregnant. I put on 30 pounds during the pregnancy and I've put on 30 more since September.
Now, I'm not huge by any means. I mean, if I lost about 40 pounds I'd be down to a size 10, right now I'm a 14 to 16. That being said this is what the new doctor told me....(my other doctor would not have done this by the way).
Re: endometrial biopsy- there wasn't enough tissue for them to use to find out the problem. It only came back blood tissue and clot type tisse
Re: my ultrasound- My uterine lining is thickened and my paraovarian cyst that I've had for about 2 1/2 years(I had the cancer screen a year and half ago and it came back negative) the cyst has grown about 1 cm in a year.
She "thinks" my pap was normal but they couldn't find the report yesterday.
Now, here's what she said about all of this( I do have history of hypertension which is controlled by 1/2 a blood pressure pill a day)
Quotes from her: I need to do a D&C and hysteroscopy to find out what that uterine lining is because we didn't get enough tissure.
The cyst next to your right ovary has grown some, but I wouldn't do cutting surgery on you unless you lost weight. I couldn't live with myself if something happened to you by you being overweight.
Well, I was appalled. I mean, women who are a LOT bigger than me have hysterectomies everyday and surgery everyday. WOmen with a LOT more health problems than hypertension and somewhat overweight. I don't consider a size 14 to 16 being humungous or anything.
I felt like crap when I left. She didn't want to give me any Prometrium , I told her that's probably what I needed that Idon't produce enough progesterine on my own when I'm overweight and that I probably do have hyperplasia. I almost had to beg for the Prometrium and then she only gave me 100mg(which won't touch it for me) but luckily they gave me two sample boxes so I can take two a day for 200mg.
OH and she won't do the D&C until I have surgical clearance from my medical doctor, which I can't see until Sept 8th!!!
I feel that she's too paranoid and new and maybe I shouldn't have switched because my other gyn md never had a problem with getting enough tissue for a sample and he also would have gone ahead with the d&c right away and never made me wait.
Now I'm really upset....does anyone have any advice???
Ginger