strange experience with the implant, period pain with no bleeding???

I am writing this so I can share my current experience, and also hopefully get some advice or help.

this is the detailed story , I have been having painful periods ever since the first time i got it (I was 10 years old), and the older i got the more painful it became, i was living on pain killers in that time of the month, and finally decided that i need to get it checked or do something about it, a lot of my friends are taking contraception and they said that helps with the pain so i thought to get a professional advice.

in February 2017 i went to a gynaecologist and decided to go on contraception but i did not like the idea of the pill because i knew i would forget to take it so i wanted to try other options, my gyno recommended i go for the implant (implanon) which is a stick that goes in your arm, i gave it a go and had it put in..here is where this story gets weird.

the first 3 months it was amazing, i got very little period and no pain at all, i felt so good and finally something taking this pain away..

BUT comes May, i started getting period pain with no bleeding, and the pain would last for a week or 2 , i started getting really worried, as i knew one of the side effects is that i would get irregular bleeding but nothing mentioned pain with no bleeding, so i went to my gyno and explained what is happening so she referred me to do an internal ultra sound.

after that was done , i get my results and turned out that i have 2 cysts one on the left and one on the right, the left one was about 2 cm (and no signs of endometriosis) so the doctor says that  the reason for the pain is the cysts, and the cure/solution to treat it is to take the pill (with the implant still in place)for a while and it should help to get rid of them.

i was hesitating at the beginning as i didn't want to be on 2 contraception at the same time, i wasn't sure how my body will react or if I'm gonna have mood swings....etc

the ultrasound was done in June, and then July , August and September i started getting my period for 10 days then it would stop for 4 days then i get it again for 10 days and it would stop for 4 days....and so on,,,it was painful as well and i was going crazy i did not know if its time to take the implant out or to keep it as i was told it might take one year for my body to get used to it..and there are side effects to it.

so i decided to go back to my gyno and take the pill (with the implant still in my arm) because i was blaming everything on the cysts, so i go there and i start taking the combined pill for 3 months continuous, that was on the 23rd of October that i took my first one, from that time until my follow up appointment which was on the 16th of january, i did not get my period at all, i remember getting a bit of cramping for a day or 2, but it was nothing like the pain i get all the time, so i was happy, life was great.

then comes my follow up appointment , i had another ultra sound and my doctor says the best news which is.. the cysts are gone and i do not need to take the pill anymore, that was great for me i was really happy, so i stopped the pill, BUT, i started getting the period pain again without bleeding, just 2 days after i stopped the pill, i still have this pain right now, i really don't know what to do anymore, should i take the implant out? is my body refusing it? why would this happen?? and what can i do to make my period less painful? how come I'm getting period pain with no bleeding??

please help, if you know or if you went through the same experience i really want to know..

thanks a lot for reading..

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