FINALLY feeling better...........

**WV_mom_of2** · 03-02-2009, 05:35 PM

After a very long week I am finally on the mend I think. At least for now LOL. I don't think I mentioned what was wrong with me (warning to you men....... you might want to stop reading NOW)

I am having what my dh calls "female problems" LOL. I started going through menopause in 2004 at the age of 34. I don't know what happens with other women but the women in my family just can't seem to do it easy LOL. I go months without a period, then have one that lasts FOREVER! I've had them go 100+ days and have to go back on the birth control pill to get them to stop. The dr. really wants me to stay on the pill until I'm in my 50's(I'm 39 now). They make me feel so horrible that I just refuse to do that. I've been on probably 6 or 7 different kinds and they all bother me.

So anyway I started spotting the first of January. It just kept going so the first of Feb. I started a pack of pills. They didn't stop it. Last week I went from spotting to a very heavy period. MAJOR cramping that kept me on Advil and Tylenol every six hours day and night for about 6 days. Muscle cramps everywhere, extreme fatigue, clotting,etc. The more I got up and tried to do things the worse it got.

It finally stopped this morning. I am still sore and very tired but I can at least get up and move around some today. Now to suffer with the pill side effects for a few months! UGH! It sucks being a woman sometimes!

Oh and my dh? He didn't get any better over the weekend! He sat on his butt and watched tv. He did order the kids to load the dishwasher and do a couple of loads of laundry but HE didn't bother to do a thing to help out! I think he's going through a mid-life crisis or something. At least I know now that other people have husbands like mine and I'm not alone!

**Michelle68** · 03-02-2009, 06:39 PM

Glad you're feeling better now. It sounds like you were absolutely miserable. Sorry your DH wasn't more helpful when you were feeling bad.

**LeeCee** · 03-02-2009, 08:09 PM

I also have perimenopause and have fibroids. I have very bad periods and try not to leave the house. I dread it every month the bleeding and clotting are terrible.my husband does'nt understand or care. hope you feel better

**WV_mom_of2** · 03-02-2009, 09:23 PM

Originally Posted by LeeCee

I also have perimenopause and have fibroids. I have very bad periods and try not to leave the house. I dread it every month the bleeding and clotting are terrible.my husband does'nt understand or care. hope you feel better

It's miserable isn't it? I have the fibroids too and the dr. says the heavy periods can be my body's way of shedding them. I don't travel very far when it's happening with me either. And I think husbands should have to suffer through it just one day.......the bleeding, the cramping, etc. One day and they'd cry like a big baby! Heck my dh had two teeth pulled last week and almost passed out in the dentist's chair LOL. Then he came home and was such a baby that he couldn't get up and walk to the kitchen for a drink or a pudding cup, couldn't go outside and put wood in the stove, etc.(who knew that having teeth pulled made your arms and legs totally useless?) I had to do all that while he recovered!

I just pray that this ends soon! This is my 6th year with it and I'm so ready for it to just be done!! My mom and grandma both suffered with this for several years. HUGS to you!

**IntlMom** · 03-02-2009, 10:06 PM

sorry you;re still suffering (although glad to hear that you can see the light at the end of the tunnel)....I was slammed into menopause at age 34 with a total hysterectomy - I have PLENTY of my own issues, so "yea" I hear ya!!!

**Patty A** · 03-03-2009, 09:13 AM

Glad your feeling better, hope you don't have to many problems with the birth control after affects!

Like IntlMom I too was slammed into menopause at 25 with a total hysterectomy, put on hormone replacement therapy which isn't like the "normal" workings. Then again at 40 they just made me cold turkey the hormones. I feel like I have spent half my life dealing with menopause!

I have to admit I am so glad to be done with the cramping and problems that come along with it all........Men have no understanding of what the monthly thing is like. Good hell they would be flat in bed every month if they had to deal with it!

**Momto2Boyz** · 03-03-2009, 09:42 AM

Well that totally sucks. I can't do birth control either. I've spent my life testing different ones and I suffer from severe depression because of the hormones and was told the only way to be on BC is to also be on anti depressents...I'll take my chances off the pills!

I have a "sit on his butt" hubby too. So I feel your pain there. It's amazing, how they can just sit by and watch nothing get done and not pitch in to help! I've learned to just sigh and keep my mouth closed when DH can't find a bowl for cereal, so he gets out a mug rather than wash something!

I hope your feeling better for good now!

**rowdy35** · 03-03-2009, 07:37 PM

wow, i am so sorry for you ladies. I have been so lucky so far with no issues relating to these matters. hopefully you are going to get some relief soon.