Hi Deb:

Thank you so much for answering and sharing with me.  I'm at wit's end and having anxiety attacks over this LOL.  I really haven't stopped having some form of discharge since the surgery and gone from the pure bleeding right post-op to clear "water" with yellowish brown tinge, back to red/pink and gushes of clear with it, then back to the clear and yellowish brown and now, I'm having pink/red and clear "water" gushes again.  It just feels like this is neverending.  I know that they said on the post-op discharge sheet "bloody, watery discharge can go on for several weeks and occassionally longer" but, what the heck is "several weeks"? LOL  4, 6, 8, 10???  And, what does "occassionally longer" mean...12?! LOL  I know most in here have had the Novasure/balloon method of ablation and mine, being by resectoscope goes deeper that the other methods so, I'm trying hard to be patient but, I'm really beginning to panic now. 

I'm so glad that I'm not alone with the periods in my 50's!   I'm turning 54 in July and I'm SO hoping that I'm going to be done by then with everything!  I've been wearing pads every day for over a year now and I'm so fed up with it and fed up with worrying about it all.  I need my doc to calm me down before hubby has to scrape me off of the ceiling! LOL 

Please pardon me if I vent a tiny bit here...but, stress.....oh YES....BIG TIME.  There has been so much going on in my life (besides this stuff) that has been tremendously stressful for almost 2 years now.  So, yes, stress may be a huge factor in hormones being crazy.  Or, as you've said, it may be the "Hormone Blitz" everyone talks about post-ablation.  I would guess that a lot of endometrium gets disturbed and there's hormones in that tissue so, it's likely released throughout our bodies...particularily if there's been resection of fibroids or, as in my case, 2 large polyps. 

I was with friends last night and I stood up to have a rather large gush.  Knowing I had been having pink/red spotting, I panicked and excused myself to the washroom to check, fearing a gush of blood but, it was mainly clear fluid with a just a tiny bit of watery brownish red.  I heaved a bit of a sigh of relief that it wasn't "flooding" in terms of bleeding. 

But *SIGH* to periods going on longer.  I'm so ready to have no more bleeding!  My PCP/family physician is the same age as me.  She's actually 6 months older than me and she's still getting her periods pretty regularily too.  Oddly enough, she tells me that I should be "done now"??  But, when she looks at my blood work-ups, says that I'm still "perimenopausal"???  I haven't figured that one out yet LOL.  Perhaps, SHE is also going through a "hormone blitz" of her own and is a little "wonky" herself LOL???! 

I am grateful that you're here to make me feel not so alone with this, Deb!  Thank you!   I am a nervous wreck right now and so anxious to speak to my doc to find out if indeed this is still part of healing and I'm ok...or, whether there's something else going on to be concerned about.  I think that I just expected to be done with this discharge stuff by now since everyone else in here seems to have finished up by the end of 6 weeks at the latest.  Or, is this a very watery period?   Who knows?  Likely my doc won't know either.  I think you can relate to the idea of being scared to call because you don't want "bad news" but, anxious to call because you're hoping for reassurance???  That's the state that I'm in right now.  I can't wait for tomorrow morning to call, praying she's in office and yet, I'm a basketcase anxius mess over the idea of making that call in the event that I get some sort of answer that panics me more LOL. 

I think I need a good LONG vacation somewhere warm, by the ocean, drink in hand with a little umbrella, a good book in the other! LOL  

Thanks Deb for being there!

Jamie
XO