I'm just now seeing this, but I'll be very curious to see what your ultrasound returns.

I can't remember if I ever posted about it here (probably not) but when I was 38 I all of a sudden started having ridiculously heavy periods that were all too frequent. I was never regular before I went on the pill, but at the time this was happening, I was trying to change my pill to a lower dose...so I thought that was what was causing it. When my doc tried a number of hormonal ways of 'fixing' it that didn't work, I just got frustrated. Then we moved and while looking at houses, I had to run into bathrooms because I was bleeding through super tampons and double thick pads (combined). I found a new doc and first thing he did was an ultrasound. Turns out, I had a large fibroid that was almost entirely within my uterus. It was attached just at the top wall.

After a few months of forced 'menopause', then surgery and then a few months later a second surgery to get the remainder of the fibroid, I was cured. Now, 7 years later, I'm completely regular and I no longer take any hormones (no more BCP).

At the height of this problem, I was bleeding so badly that 1) I was incredibly anemic and had to have a transfusion prior to surgery and 2) I actually gushed blood out once in an all employee meeting at work (it doesn't get any worse than that!) and once onto my OB-GYN's shoes.