I was 10 days late having a period, negative pregnancy tests, and started having a period on Tuesday. Very quickly, it got VERY heavy. I had a super tampon and 3 pads on at once and was still bleeding through it every 40 minutes. I tried to go to class yesterday, but was really lightheaded and woozy, and just went to the ER after my first class (I go to school at a huge medical university, so I was right there).
They automatically assumed I was pregnant from the moment I walked in and I sat in the waiting room, bleeding profusely for over 4 hours. Finally they took me to a room and I waited for another 4 hours, until my DH got really pissed and started demanding that somebody - ANYBODY - see me, and I started crying because I hadn't seen me kids AT ALL that day and now it was past their bedtime and I just wanted to go home, but I was scared I was bleeding too much. A doctor comes in, asks me "How far along were you?" and I tell him "I'M NOT PREGNANT" for the 50th time. He does a pelvic exam, not even an ultrasound, tells me I'm fine, that it's just a "heavy period", he thinks, and sends us on our way. Before I'm discharged, the nurse comes in and says "If your bleeding gets really heavy, like more than a pad every hour or two, come back." I was like "Are you serious? I'm HERE because I'm soaking through way more pads than that!" And she was just like "Hmm.... I don't know then."
So I'm still bleeding really heavily. I have to wear pads and tampons together, change them every hour, my bed is now soaked with blood, my hands and feet are tingly and my lips are greyish-looking. I have no idea what is going on or what to do. I think I may have had an ovarian cyst that ruptured, but all the information I found says I should have that checked out because of potentially serious outcomes. Yet the hospital was totally uninterested in checking it out. My OB is affiliated with the same hospital (the clinic is actually in the hospital) and the waiting is always just as long and the outcomes are almost always exactly the same, if I actually stay to have an appointment because of the waiting... and I don't have health insurance, so that's all I got.
So frustrated. What the heck should I do?
They automatically assumed I was pregnant from the moment I walked in and I sat in the waiting room, bleeding profusely for over 4 hours. Finally they took me to a room and I waited for another 4 hours, until my DH got really pissed and started demanding that somebody - ANYBODY - see me, and I started crying because I hadn't seen me kids AT ALL that day and now it was past their bedtime and I just wanted to go home, but I was scared I was bleeding too much. A doctor comes in, asks me "How far along were you?" and I tell him "I'M NOT PREGNANT" for the 50th time. He does a pelvic exam, not even an ultrasound, tells me I'm fine, that it's just a "heavy period", he thinks, and sends us on our way. Before I'm discharged, the nurse comes in and says "If your bleeding gets really heavy, like more than a pad every hour or two, come back." I was like "Are you serious? I'm HERE because I'm soaking through way more pads than that!" And she was just like "Hmm.... I don't know then."
So I'm still bleeding really heavily. I have to wear pads and tampons together, change them every hour, my bed is now soaked with blood, my hands and feet are tingly and my lips are greyish-looking. I have no idea what is going on or what to do. I think I may have had an ovarian cyst that ruptured, but all the information I found says I should have that checked out because of potentially serious outcomes. Yet the hospital was totally uninterested in checking it out. My OB is affiliated with the same hospital (the clinic is actually in the hospital) and the waiting is always just as long and the outcomes are almost always exactly the same, if I actually stay to have an appointment because of the waiting... and I don't have health insurance, so that's all I got.
So frustrated. What the heck should I do?
So it's me and the three kiddies and my bleeding/rash/possible new illness. 
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