Semi continous bleeding for 6 months since ovary removal

Hi everyone. I was recommended by specialists to have both ovaries removed. I'm under the care of a specialist but it's been going really badly. At the moment I spend most of each month bleeding. I'm exhausted, PM symptoms, weight gain (I've gained almost 8kg despite being on a calorie restricted diet and I was steadily loosing weight before the surgery), anaemia, emotional- stressed, anxious, teary, irritable, tired. Basically miserable and it's interfering majorly with everything in my life. I had to fight for an iron transfusion because I was so low I was going to fall over. By the time I got it, I'm being told it's so bad Im likely going to need more which is expensive as an ongoing feature in my life which it will be if I'm continuously losing blood and can only work part time due to my symptoms. I feel like I'm not being taken seriously and was pretty much brushed off for months as "fine" until I had a break down on the phone. Now that I'm adding major premenstral symptoms into it more recently (which if I got them at all were always very mild before this and are causing me to be teary and feel crappy on top of everything else), I feel like I'm headed for a major nervous breakdown.

Now they tell me that this sort of thing with uncontrollable bleeding is "really common" in people that have ovaries but not uterus removed that they feel need to go on HRT. I don't want to have to take another month or two off for another round of surgery (hasn't been floated, but I'm waiting for it as I seem to just be in the too hard basket), probably won't have a job to come back to. Is this really so common? I wish I had've been told. Can anyone else share their experiences and did you ever get it fixed? Can I do anything? I've also spoken to a natropath but they're saying the specialist needs to fix this which they don't seem able to do. Thank you.

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