Women's health issues ahead. About 8 weeks ago I woke up bleeding excessively, feeling faint, in tremendous amounts of pain, and I shouldn't have been. Two days before that morning I'd had an elective procedure to treat menstrual symptoms that were untreatable by other means. The procedure had failed. Roughly 20 years ago I started my monthly cycle. From the the very beginning I had a tremendous amount of pain, heavy bleeding, and other pain-related symptoms. As a teenager my doctors blamed my symptoms on "being a teenager". In other words, my terrible periods could be explained by my age and they didn't ever look any deeper. As I moved into college the symptoms only increased. There were a few times in my college days when my I was put onto birth control pills to "control" my symptoms. Usually, these only helped to regulate my cycle. Meaning that my periods, which were still heavy and painful and long, would at least happen on a nea...
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