Birth control pill doesn't work for stop periods

[xweeta]

I was diagnosed with endometriosis and adenomyosis in 2013 (25 years old).

At the time I took the Cerazette (0.075 mg progestogen) and Gynera (0.03 mg + 0.075 mg), to stop my menstruation and it kinda worked.

I had surgery in 2014 and then I stopped the pill. I was fine for many years.

In 2021 I had another surgery for pain during sexual intercourse, and my daily pain got worse (endometriosis woke up);

I've been experimenting several pills for 1 and a half year (without taking a break) to try to stop my period, but my body doesn't recognize the pills! I still have my period every month, but when I'm taking the pill I still have more pain and the blood is more intense. It's horrible!

The Pills I have been taking is last year are:

-Cerazette (0.075mg progestogen)

-Mercilon (0.15 mg + 0.02 mg)

-Visane (2 mg dienogest) - not a pill, but horrible, I was bleeding for 1 month.

I always have a lot of cramps when I'm taking the pill. All pain is more intense with the pill, generaly.

Does anyone else have the same issue?

I don't know what pill to take, to stop menstruation and not have cramps

[cattailabroad]

Hi! I'm so sorry you are dealing with all of this. I had something similar happen where my IUD no longer stopped my periods and then I switched to the pill and I still had cyclical bleeding and constant excessive weird clear watery discharge. Like I had to wear period panties all of the time and sometimes it would still flood and soak through all of my clothes.

No one ever really explained the discharge but they did discover what turned out to be a uterine polyp when they replaced my IUD. They diagnosed it as a fibroid and dismissed it. I tried 2 new IUDs, because I had been extremely happy with mine for 6 years, but they kept getting displaced because of the polyp. This causes severe pain that was, of course, dismissed until I insisted on an ultrasound and they found that the 2nd one had moved as well. Switching to the pill stopped the severe pain but I continued to have nearly constant cramping and "periods" every 2 weeks like clockwork.

I accidentally did not take my pills for a week because I forgot to put them in my weekly med organizer and after that I did have less bleeding and discharge. I have no idea why and neither did my doctors.

I think that my pain, bleeding, discharge, etc was all caused by the polyp and surgery revealed that I had small fibroids all throughout my uterus that had not shown up on any of the zillion intravaginal ultrasounds. They also found during surgery that my bladder, uterus, and cervix were all pretty much fused together with fibrosis.

Have you had ultrasounds to look for fibroids? They alone can cause terrible cramps and are the major culprit for heavy bleeding. I don't know why everything is worse when you are on the pill. That is the opposite of my experience and I think further highlights the need for your doctors to look for something new. This isn't normal and you deserve to live without pain and bleeding!

Are they not giving you estrogen because they think it will make the endometriosis come back? Did you have excision or ablation?

If your surgeon is doing ablation I would find an endo surgeon who does complete excision without leaving anything behind and does not focus solely on reproductive organs. My experience working with endometriosis experts listed in places like icarebetter and Nancy's Nook has been night and day better than my local "endo experts". The vetted endo experts on those lists care about your quality of life and will not dismiss symptoms and care about your pain, not just fertility.

I'm not sure that helps but I hope you find relief!