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OK, this period can subside back into my normal daily light-flow-and-minimal-cramping ANY TIME NOW. I've been on Aleve since Thursday for cramps, and I'm going through the Tampax Super like a hay fever sufferer goes through Kleenex. Dang it all, if I'm going to cough and feel that sudden "Change The Tampon Five Minutes Ago" notification, and if I'm going to have this much cramping, then by golly I want 21 days off, too! GRRR.
I bet it's stress.
Re: Rant -- apologies in advance
I'd kill for a hysterectomy. I have dysplasia that a LEEP didn't resolve. I have PCOS, and I get ruptured cysts about once every 3-4 months. Those suckers are painful.
I have painful, heavy periods, which nothing controls. Like CJ, issues with my reproductive organs invade my everyday life almost constantly. I don't have the level of pain that CJ deals with, however.
I'm glad other alternatives were open to you. But there are issues for which hysterectomies are appropriate and a blessing. HRT isn't automatic, any more than it is for post menopausal women. And these days, it isn't major abdominal surgery.