Gyno.

Finally after begging my family doc for 2 years to give me a referral, I finally saw the Gyno! She was young, a new doctor, I'd guess, and I liked her. She agreed my sudden and heavy painful bleeding after menopause last June is NOT normal or something I should have to live with. She was even concerned enough that she even did a biopsy of my uterine lining right there in her office, no anesthetic, no local freezing, nothing. I have to say that I wasn't prepared for that. I was expecting the dreaded internal exam( which she also did) but not that and it hurt. My God, it was painful. She basically opened up my cervix, held it with a clamp and shoved up this long thing several inches up into my uterus and cut out 4-5 chunks of my flesh for testing at the lab for cancer cells. They were the size of the fingernail on my baby finger and were red fleshy lumps. The pain felt like a combination of really bad cramping, sharp shooting pains, that time I got stung by the jellyfish off the coast of Venezuela and what I imagine it would feel like to have a rat gnawing away at your insides. Of course I bled after that,too. She said results take 2 weeks and I come back and see her in a month. She also wants me to get more blood work.

At least she is willing to do something to relieve my misery and agony too, unlike my GP who shrugs it's just part of being a woman and something I have to live with. She said I can do hormone therapy ( which I wouldn't want to mess around with), or to have the uterine lining basically burned off, or surgical removal of the uterus. I'm just glad that finally at last we'll hopefully be able to find out the cause of it: is it cancer, endometriosis, or what, and to be able to finally put an end to it all after 2 long years of suffering. She also said my vagine was in good shape; a nice wide vagina and that my using the vibrator regularly has kept it in good shape; that I'm 'exercising" it well and keeping it in good condition. HA! Who knew? I would have thought after 12 YRS of no sex it would have shrivelled up, withered away and died.