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I so sorry you are going through this and your quality of life is not good. I also have chronic anemia from what my GI suspects is Crohns and I need iron transfusions. It seems that your periods are complicating your anemia. One option (although I definitely understand you don't want more meds) is to take a low-dose estrogen-progesterone tablet daily and stop your periods altogether. I did this for many years because my periods were so bad and the hormonal fluctuations caused breast pain. They were very happy years for me--a quiet uterus with no periods. You could explore this option with your doctor and see if it helps with your anemia. Eventually, I had my uterus removed at the same time as my colon, because of Lynch syndrome.

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