Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: IBS and menopause -- anyone else?

Hi Pixna,

I hope I'm not jumping in too soon here, but your situation is pretty much like what I'm going through. For the last 12 years I've had problems with bleeding irregularly and most of those years were almost non-stop. I became bed-ridden for years and my daughter had to care for me, until I finally got medical insurance (another story not worth going into). My visit showed uterine polyps and they were removed but the bleeding didn't stop for me either. It wasn't until my doctor decided to try something new that was working for other women, shots of Depo-Provera (a birth control shot) they discovered given every 3 months was helping women like ourselves with this problem. I've been taking the shots now for 3 years. I still bleed, but it's just spotting and far apart from each other which is now livable. I have been told that this treatment has helped many women stop the bleeding and move into full menopause so that we can get over it much more quickly.

Just thought it might be of some encouragement for you to know there are others out here that have this problem too and how I've been handling it

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