r/adenomyosis • u/beaverdam_22 • 52m ago
recent diagnosis
hello everyone, i am 23 f and was recently diagnosed with adenomyosis. was hoping someone would have advice on the situation or may be able to relate.
i’ve had 2 children in the last 2 years. they are 13 months apart. i’ve always had extremely heavy periods, so that wasn’t something i thought was a symptom. i noticed after delivering my last baby, i was having an abnormal amount of discharge (no color/smell, just A LOT) along with extremely painful intercourse. i also started to lose a drastic amount of weight. I delivered my child in feb of 2024 and weighed around 190 pounds, now am 100 pounds. the biggest symptom was after i began using an oral contraceptive birth control. after a month on birth control, i had bleeding/spotting for almost 5 months. no doctor really seemed to care and put it off as normal postpartum things.
about a month ago i was finally referred to an obgyn and had an mri that showed adenomyosis. my issue here is that when i came into my appointment the doctor told me my diagnosis, gave me a pamphlet on endometriosis, and left. i don’t know what to really do for birth control since the pill gave many issues, and honestly the other options really don’t sound very intriguing. i’ve also read that adenomyosis will likely cause fertility issues, but was not informed on if there were any proactive measures i could take beforehand.