My Period lasts 4months and It’s ruining my life- Lady cries out

Izzy Hawksworth, a 21-year-old lady from Sheffield, shared her experience of enduring excruciating periods that sometimes last for four months, causing her illness.

WHATSAPP: CLICK HERE TO FOLLOW OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL TO RECEIVE LATEST UPDATES ON YOUR PHONES 

Despite undergoing ultrasounds, MRI scans, and laparoscopy to identify the cause of her symptoms, she tested negative for endometriosis, a condition where tissue lining grows outside the uterus, and adenomyosis, where it grows into the uterus muscular wall.

Lamenting about her condition, she said: “In a way, I feel quite lonely because nobody understands how I’m feeling.

“None of my friends or family have periods that are like mine, so I feel like it’s just me who is in this situation.

“I’m also petrified that I’ll decide I want a baby in the future but then I’ll have fertility issues because of all of my symptoms.

“I feel like my period actually ruins my life – I’m in constant pain and there’s nothing that I can do to relieve that pain.

“My cramps even wake me up in the night and I get so bloated that I sometimes look pregnant.

‘It also really affects my mental health – I am constantly looking in the mirror crying because I can’t believe I’ll have to go through this forever.

“I try my best to keep living my life as normal but it’s so hard when I have to go everywhere with a hot water bottle on my stomach.

She continued: “The doctors never listened to me about my symptoms.

“I would make an appointment with them because I was bleeding and they would just make me change the type of contraception I was on.

‘I went on the implant and it absolutely ruined my life – I was on my period for months and never got a break.

‘I felt like my pain was constantly being dismissed, I would be begging them for a referral and they wouldn’t do it.

‘They only agreed to refer me when they realised I had tried every type of contraception available to me and there was nothing else they could give me..’

Izzy has now been told she needs to try and find a type of contraception that can help her manage her periods.

But she added: ‘I had an appointment with the surgeon and he asked me what my fertility plans were.

‘I’m 21, I don’t have any plans to have a child anytime soon.

“I’ve essentially got to manage my symptoms until I decide to have a baby as they’ve said my periods could be better after that – but that just feels impossible to do.

“I don’t know how I will be able to survive another 10 years of feeling like this, it actually feels impossible.’

“For too long women and girls have been dismissed despite experiencing severe pain and heavy bleeding which can disrupt their lives, relationships, school and careers.

“They are not receiving the treatment, care and emotional support they need to manage these common yet debilitating problems despite effective treatment options being available.