Ok gang, I have a question for all you nurses. Keep in mind I DO NOT have health insurance.

After I had my daughter I got on the depo shot for means of birth control. I started to get a lot of pain and the doc thought maybe it was cysts and that the depo only makes those worse. So I have been off the depo shot for almost  2 years now. Problem is I continue to have extremely irregular periods. I never know when it will hit. I have 2 or three a month, some that last all month, sometimes I skip a month, and it is very heavy, sometimes large clots come with it.I have such awful cramps and sometimes that radiate to my back. The cycle I am on now started on the 25th of october. It is now the 18th of november. Sorry if this was tmi. Just wondering what to do.

Oh and my husband and I have been trying to get pregnant for a year and no results. I know I know no insurance. But my doc fees and the stay at the birthing center are less than the deductible for pregnancy on the insurance plan.

No not pregnant. I am 23. I am tired alot. Right now the bleeding is pretty light but it has been going on for I while so I think it's getting ready to stop. For now. We do have a place I can go that just sends a bill instead of paying upfront, but I hate going there because, well I hate to say it but I am not poor and I am not hispanic. You never get to see the same doc. when you go in and you wait for hours for them to see you because they do not accept appts.

Okay, just go to the clinic so you do not rack up a big bill, or make an appt with a MD and risk a big bill. You do not have to be hispanic to go, so just go... Y

ou could have something more serious wrong, and perhaps not. In any case, you need to see a doctor or nurse practitioner. Let us know how it turns out... best of luck

Are you trying to get pregnant to stop the symptoms?  Not judging mind you, but in Endometriosis, they actually used to recommend it.  If it is endometriosis, better be seen, it can spread outside of the reproductive organs.  Can you apply for free care at your hospital?  You don't have to be poverty level or eh, ethnic. 

The clinics are for all people who can't afford health insurance.  In my city, we have so many people from so many places that there is no "ethnic" any more.  Do what you gotta do.

BTW, I went to the clinic I spoke of in earlier posts and asked them to do my yearly, which I told them I haven't had in two years and told them everything that was going on. The Doc refused to give me a D & C because he said it was not an emergency situation. Now I  am no dummy, especially when it comes to my own body but he would not listen to what I had to say and downplayed everything. Told me it was still from the depo. He wouldn't even do any bloodwork to check for anemia. THAT IS WHY I HATE THAT PLACE! I left crying and you can be darn sure I am not paying that bill!