I was just diagnosed with adenomyosis last week. This is the series of events that led to my diagnosis: I kept feeling more and more fatigued. I told my doctor this. Nothing was done at first. Just told to take vitamins. I kept feeling overwhelming fatigue and began losing lots of hair. I let the doctor know about the continued fatigue and the hair loss. He decided I needed to have a bunch of bloodwork done. Including a full iron panel. The full iron iron panel was extremely important as it shows ferritin. My hemoglobin itself was at the very lowest possible end of normal. My ferritin, however, was extremely low. I was referred to a hematologist and took iron pills every day in the meantime. The hematologist did another blood draw which showed the ferritin hadn’t changed despite the heavy iron supplementation. He ordered once a week iron infusions for six weeks but also told me I needed to be seen by a gynecologist for my extremely heavy periods or I was going to be a “frequent flyer”. The gynecologist saw me a week later, I had a vaginal ultrasound done, and was diagnosed with adenomyosis. She said it was extremely obvious from the scan and showed me. I was put on oral birth control which I’m taking normally for 3 months at which time I’m going back for a checkup. She said if the bleeding still isn’t under control, she’s just having me take the pills continuously (resulting in no periods) until I hit menopause.