Thanks Debbie! You know, it's kind of funny. I was getting a little panicky about this a little while ago while I was making dinner and I told myself, Debbie has really heavy periods and she gets through them so you will, too. ;p I'm sorry you deal with it also, but I'm so glad to have someone who really understands that one specific thing. One other things that's been bothering me is that I don't usually get cramps, but I have really been hurting with this one and it is just so dang heavy! I get crampy sometimes but not really that bad. Thank you so much for looking up that info on the net for me - I really appreciate the encouraging words in the info you found!! I try really hard not to google things because it almost always leads to the worst case scenario and gets me more worked up then I was to begin with. Thank you for sharing the info you found!! That makes me feel a lot better! I showed the doctor the vitamins that I bought that has 100% daily value of iron and he said that would work fine to build the iron back up and to keep it up during menstruation. It still worries me though. Gee, something health related worries a panicker - what a concept! :confuse: hee hee hee I'm glad you're going to see a nurse Tuesday. Make sure you tell her about the chest pains you've been having. They will check everything out and make sure you're ok. Like I said, it's always better to be safe than sorry. Especially when you have kids you have to think about. I know four people with heart problems and I'm amazed that each of them have had such success stories. My father-in-law had a heart transplant 16 years ago. Transplants only have a seven to ten year life expectancy and they have kept him alive for 16. My father had a quadruple bypass surgery two years ago and is doing fabulously well. My mother was put on a transplant list and while she was on the list the doctor gave her some new medicine to keep her alive while waiting - it completely healed her heart and she didn't need a transplant or any kind of surgery after all. And I worked with a guy who had a bypass surgery for SIX arteries!! He's alive and doing very well also. Heart issues aren't a death sentence like they used to be. You can live a very long and healthy life with a

Dear Vickers, I was going to write you back anyway and thank you for your reply to my post then I saw this one. I can understand your frustration! I looked up endrometrial polyps they are almost NEVER cancer less than 1% so please dont worry about that, they happen around menopause and the only thing they really intefere with is childbearing in younger woman who get them under 25. They said a D@C would remove it but they are so tiny sometimes they cannot be detected. I am glad the iron pills worked, the DOctor probably gave you hormones to stop estrogen and it stops bleeding, the reason its heavy is that the endrometrium built up, it will go back to normal soon, believe me I understand about period problems, you and I are the "poster girls" for them. Can the Doctor give you a low-dose iron pill to keep the iron up? Let me know how you are feeling. My heart palps are not a severe as yesterday, the chest pain comes and goes, yesterday was alot worse, they are still there but less so, more scary than painful, my blood pressure is 110/72 I checked it today, I have been smoking SO much VIckers and worrying about my brother, one cig after another, I am not smoking much today and it has helped, also my Aunt asked me late last night if I had "left arm pain" I did not, of course now that she mentioned it now I do, am I imagining this? I know its there, but I know the more I dwell on it the more it becomes, they say in perimenopause heart palps become more pronounced, I have a appt with my nurse Tuesday, I am going to have her check it out, also I vomit alot and I know that upsets the rythm of the heart, no vomiting and very little smoking, I hope that will help, I do not have bullima I do not think I just get so naucous I induce vomiting, something that I am going to stop. God does it ever end! I took my blood pressure 6 times and now my arm really does hurt because of the tight cuff! Let me know what you think and how you are doing. God bless you, Debbie.

As most of you know, I had a problem with daily menstruation for about six months. I finally went to the OB/GYN and they did some tests. The biopsy came back normal but the pap smear didn't. The doctor said it's not too big of a deal and should be checked again in a year. He did say that they found evidence of an enodmetrial polyp. Whatever the heck that is!! The excessive bleeding had also made me anemic. Anyways, he gave me some medcine to take for 10 days and I actually stopped bleeding for almost three weeks! My iron levels built back up and I started feeling tons better. The doctor told me I would start bleeding again after the pills and that it would be heavy and shouldn't be for more than a week like a normal period. So, here I am, bleeding heavy for the last two days and I'm worried that I'm going to get anemic again and that it isn't going to stop after a week and I will be in the same situation as I was before. I'm so frustrated and even anxious about all this! I'm not panicky, but I am anxious. I'm so sick of having to deal with this already - freaking crimeny!! I guess I just needed to vent and need some encouragement that this will eventually go away. I'm so sick of this - I feel like it will never stop!!