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This past few days I've been having a heavy, real period. The first for three years. I thought they'd stopped. Since then I've only had about two light periods a year until now. No idea what brought this on. Also feeling really overwhelmed with the ridiculous amount of useless medical appointments I'm expected to attend. If I'd managed to get a ten year award for my disability payments, I wouldn't bother. But with only two years until reassessment I have to keep going to this useless crap to get letters of support. I have my first appointment with the NHS dietician tomorrow. It's about the fact that my cancer treatment has made me severely intolerant and allergic to so many foods I can barely eat anything other than chicken, carrots and chocolate without getting terribly ill. And this has of course caused me to develop a ton of nutrient deficiencies. And my body can't even tolerate the supplements that are meant to correct the deficiencies. I have no hope at all that the dietician will be any use though. They already told me that the treatment is to slowly reintroduce foods, well I've been trying that for ages and it's not working. And I've been on the waiting list for about 2 years, they don't even care that I have many symptoms from these nutrient intolerances (such as worsening neuropathy in my feet that is causing me to lose movement in my toes), it's not seen as urgent at all. I wish they would just put me down. Thank god someone came through on mutual aid, otherwise I'd have nothing to eat. With such a limited diet I wouldn't be able to rely on the food bank even if they allowed people to go more than three times every 6 months, which they don't.
I have PCOS and will get that randomly every few years as well. Doctor said it's just that the lining takes a really long time to build up to a point it's heavy enough to all come off since ur hormones never tell it to come off normally
Oh, thanks for the info.