Last December, I started to bleed lightly. This bleeding increased over a few months to a very heavy constant flow. I went to a gynecologist to get tests done, and was diagnosed with PCOS. I was given the pill, which didn't stop the bleeding, then the Depo shot, which didn't stop the bleeding, but lightened it a bit, and then they put in a hormonal IUD, which just caused excruciating pain at first, and didn't stop the bleeding. I was also given Metformin. Recently, I stopped bleeding for about two weeks, but then the period came raging back. My old gynecologist referred me to a different gyne because she couldn't understand my situation. My current gyne actually believes that my bleeding is somehow "normal". In what universe is bleeding for 11 months normal?

I have had a few tests done, like hormone blood work, an ultrasound, and a biopsy of my uterus, but no exploratory surgery, which I have been begging for. I'm only 27, as well, and so doctors have been refusing to give me a hysterectomy, despite me constantly begging for one. I'm sick and tired of not being listened to!

I need a doctor in the North Shore system (since my Medicaid covers North Shore, and that's all that's in my area), who will either actually listen to me and therefore test me further, or who is snip-happy, but still a good doctor, and who will be willing to get rid of my uterus for good. I have no intention of having kids, and it's becoming painful and miserable to live at all.