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What do all these diseases/conditions have in common?

Endometriosis
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
Pelvic Infection
Ovarian Cancer
Uterine Cancer
Fibroids
Hormone Imbalance
Anorexia
No Ovulation
STD's
Eating Disorders
Brain Tumor
Von Willebrand Disease
Most all cancers

 

They all have the Irregular Cycles as a symptom!

 

For a complete list of all 300+ diseases that all have irregular cycles Click Here

True Doctor Stories from Women like You

Endometriosis – Spotting Between Periods

At the age of 25 I started to have spotting between my periods.

 

It wasn’t much I would spot one afternoon, then stop. I had just come off the pill after being on it for two years. I had read online that spotting after coming off the pill was normal so I didn’t think anything of it. Three months later I was still spotting a little between my periods. It was time to visit the Nurse Practitioner at my OBGYN’s office for my annual appointment.

 

I told her that I was spotting and she said the same thing. It’s because you came off the pill. Six months goes by and I’m still spotting! I go back to the doctors this time; she dismisses it as my hormones changing and not to worry. This time a year goes by and I’m still spotting lightly between my periods. On my next annual exam the Nurse Practitioner finally orders an ultrasound and they notice that I have  cysts on my ovaries and say it must be the cyst causing the spotting.

By this point I’m so used to spotting I don’t even care anymore.

Three years have gone by and I’m finally ready to have a baby. We start the whole process and… nothing. After a year I decide this is enough something has to be wrong with me! I’m going to see a Fertility Specialist.

The doctor orders a million test and one of the test was an HSG* (an x-ray of my uterus, tubes, ovaries) the results were shocking. My left fallopian tube was so enlarged it looked like a snake that had just swallowed a rabbit. The only thing left to do was have surgery.

After my four hour surgery the doctor said that this was one of the hardest cases he had had in over 5 years. I had the worst possible level of Endometriosis. The endometriosis had wrapped it’s self around my tube and suffocated it, it had basically eaten my left ovary, and had glued my lower bowel to my rectum.

 

The doctor managed to remove almost all the endometriosis and unfortunately had to remove my left ovary and fallopian tube.

 

Two months after having the surgery I was pregnant.

 

The moral of the story here is that you need to be proactive with your health. I always knew deep down that something was wrong but no one would listen or try to figure it out.

I had no other symptom of endometriosis besides the spotting, no pain, no nothing. I had no other symptom of endometriosis besides the spotting and I had the worst possible level of it, just think about what that means.

I should have changed doctors or demand more tests. It’s awful that we women with no medical training have to become our own doctors. The only advice I can offer is if you think something is wrong then there is, if your doctor won’t put 100% into figuring it out then get a new doctor.

 

I didn’t have to lose my left ovary or left tube. I could have had my endometriosis under control had we found it four years earlier.

Brain Tumor – Disappearing Period

When I was about 19 years old I started to notice my period was slowly, but surely, disappearing. I always had a pretty regular period that lasted about 5 days. Day 2 was always the heaviest, then it would wean off. Within 6 months my period had gone from 5 days down to 2 days. I would have one heavy day then the next day it was just spotting.

 

I went to the doctor, who said it was because of stress from school. A year later I was still having my period every 28 days but would only last 1 to 2 days. I changed doctors, and my new doctor was concerned. She ordered a blood test and we found out that my Prolactine level was 57 when 24 was normal. I was then told to go see a specialist, an Oncologist.

 

I saw an amazing Oncologist who ordered an MRI to scan my brain. We discovered a small Pituitary tumor. I now take Dostinex to keep my Prolactine levels normal and my tumor from growing. I never had any other symptom except my disappearing period. Had I left this untreated it could have developed into a massive tumor that would have needed to be surgically removed.

 

I’m happy it never came to that.

PCOS Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome – Irregular Period

I was just married and we decided we wanted to try for a baby. Two years passed, and still, no baby. I’d been having irregular periods for so long and doctors never seemed concerned about it. Always passing it off as stress, the pill, my weight (I’m on the heavy side). I finally decided to be pro-active and see a fertility specialist and I soon found out I had Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. POS impacts your hormones which makes it almost impossible for the ovary to mature the end so it can be fertilized.

 

The chances of becoming pregnant with POS are nil. Had I insisted the doctor diagnose my irregular periods, I would have been able to manage my POS and perhaps gotten pregnant sooner.

 

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*HSG - Hysterosalpingogram - Contrast dye is injected into the uterus, through the cervix. X-rays are taken to determine if there are any abnormalities or in the uterus or fallopian tubes.