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I was diagnosed with polycystic ovaries a few years ago and I don't really intend on treating it since I don't give a shit about having children or my fertility. I'm on depo(injection-based birth control), and thankfully I only have my periods every 3 months or so. My menstrual cycles give me crippling pain and are entirely unpredictable so this has been a blessing. But lately I've just been bleeding randomly and getting cramps without warning, and the past several days I've been having them nonstop and beginning to bleed at the slightest stressor. I called in sick today claiming I caught the stomach flu that's been going around lately, but in reality I was in such awful menstrual pain that I was nearly vomiting. My mother and my gynecologist are beginning to suspect endometriosis, which is a condition where the inner lining of the uterus begins to grow where it isn't supposed to. It runs in my family and it's pretty common in people with POCS and hormonal imbalances, of which I have both. Endometriosis significantly increases the risk of ovarian and reproductive cancers... What's the most unusual is that depo is actually used as a treatment for this, since it essentially prevents the uterus from functioning, but it hasn't really been working as intended... Oral contraceptives or hormone therapy are other treatments, but I've had very bad experiences with oral contraceptives in the past.