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Who has the control? Endometriosis Vs Me...

Last night was one of the worst nights I've had in a long long time. It started on Thursday when I had my review with the specialists at the hospital. As I've mentioned before I had the mirena coil inserted in February during my lap. I started taking norethisterone in June due to continuous bleeding, it's now nearly September and even though bleeding is light I'm still on every day :( So during the review I was advised to stop the norethisterone (which I have been taking four times a day) and start taking the combined pill again. The reason they explained for this is that the coil and norethisterone both produce proestrogen. They believe too much of this hormone has caused upset and continuous bleeding. So since changing meds Thursday and Friday I was still bleeding but pain wise ok.. I felt extremely positive leaving the review on Thursday. I was happy we were trying something new and felt I was making progress. Last night was a whole different story. I started bleed