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About 8 months after my second child was born, it became clear that I was overwhelmed trying to juggle everything and on top of the stress, my periods had started again - even though I had been breast feeding religiously (very different from what followed my first child's birth). At some point, I began bleeding and it didn't stop. I made an appointment with my GP because I didn't have a gyn (insurance issues). My GP completed an exam and then engaged me in a long conversation where she told me I seemed to have symptoms of depression and should do something about it (but didn't give me any referrals or suggestions). She also scheduled a D&C and tubal ligation but didn't really give me much information about what that was or what I should expect. My husband dropped me off at the surgery center at 8am and said he would pick me up 5pm and I was on my own. That was quite scary but to everyone else involved it seemed routine. The D&C partially took care of the worst of the bleeding but there was still constant spotting. Eventually, my doctor told me that the best way to deal with it was to take birth control pills until periods became more predictable. Even though I didn't need them for birth control, I continued to take them for the next 20 years to control my periods because every time I stopped, the continual periods returned. No doctor I saw along the way seemed to have any other suggestions since the pills were taking care of the problem.
