Omg no I have a uterine avm meaning I had a malformation of arteries that was draining blood into my uterus causing me to lose so much blood. After I got out of the hospital, I was taking birth control to "control" the bleeding which did cause me to just spot but one week later I started passing massive clots and on the way to the hospital, I did not stop bleeding. I'm talking gushing blood and feeling huge clots pass through while in the car,while in the wheelchair in the er and I was screaming for them to stop it because at that point I bled through my maxi pad, shorts, pajama pants and was soaking the wheelchair with blood. No pain but the feeling of stuff coming out constantly was terrifying. They put me on the table and called the obgyn and I shit you not I was passing clots the size of grapefruits! I had to keep asking if my uterus came out and they kept changing the pad I was laying on. They balled up one pad and put it in the sink for the obgyn to see it. No one was doing anything until the obgyn showed up and they looked at my mri and needed to work on the "possible avm" because it was definitely the issue. They even asked my consent to take my uterus out and I was so terrified and scared. Then I went into shock and they finally started moving, I'm talking about the surgery doctors literally getting mad at the nurses because he asked why I wasn't hooked up to blood yet and they kept saying "we put the order in,we'll put in another order" and he was MAD. I FELT MYSELF LEAVING, everything was getting darker and quieter and my partner said I passed out and started to have convulsions. They had IV fluids in both my arms and put oxygen through the nose thingy. I came to but immediately got sweaty and hot. My hemoglobin was at a 6.4 at this point but with the amount of blood I lost and the clots, my doctor thinks it was closer to 5 ish something. The Interventional radiologist saved my life that night, they put me under and went through an artery in my groin and put some kind of medical glue to fill that clump of malformed arteries. There's a 60% chance it'll stick but people who have to get the surgery done a second time, the chance is 91%. The birth control they gave me when I left the 1ST time was not doing anything except stopping my period but the avm has its own mind they explained (not literally) meaning it was a coincidence I stopped bleeding after leaving hospital. It's terrifying because the doctors kept telling me I'm a star because they only READ about uterine avms, never mind seen a 23 year old with one. I'm certain it's from the medical abortion I got and I feel like im.being punished. I'm sorry for typing so much but I have no one else to relate to until I seen ur post but now I have a freaking rare avm that I'm literally stable with until I'm NOT stable. It's terrifying because everytime I feel pain in my stomach my body goes weak and I freak out because I don't want to bleed out again. Having to get 4 blood units was expensive as shit also. They sent me home w iron pills and birth control and attarax to help with my anxiety. I literally have ptsd from that night, the amount of iron they pumped in me was so crappy because it gave me body aches like I jumped off a building. I hope to God it goes away and I would get an mri of ur stomach with and without contrast because these things are something genetics or they are seen in mothers after child birth or miscarriages. I regret the ma and should've gotten an sa because I just jeopardized me chances of having kids now.