what is a D & C test?

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(Sorry, about it being a little long but...)
Okay. Well, I have a period problem.
Every since I started my period 2 years ago - they've been irregular.
The longest one I had was like 7 weeks. They are usually 3 weeks long, leaving me 7 days in between. I never went to my mom [wrong move].
Until yesterday. This period I was on for a little over 2 weeks. I'm like "I need to go to my mom with this one." So I did.
The family doctor or gyno couldn't get me in until march, WTF.
So my mom took me to the emergency room.
They did a pelvic exam, ow. It hurt because I never had sex.
It turns out I was anemic severely, they gave us an option of
transfusion or to try hormone pills. We went with the pills.

I'm only 14. Now they said I have to do a D&C at the gyno on Friday.

**Explain to me thoroughly and if you had one tell me what it was like.
 
A D&C is a surgical procedure where your cervix is dilated (the "D" part) and then the uterine lining is scraped out (curetted, - the "C" part). I'm surprised they're doing a D&C so early, but maybe it's better; I didn't have my first one till I was almost 20, and had been having horrible periods for nearly a dacade already.

The D&C evacutes the entire uterus so they can examine the whole uterine lining to figure out if there's a reason for the extended bleeding. And sometimes (although not very often) the procedure gets the body "on track" so your periods aren't so horrendous anymore. (it didn't work for me).

Pills are generally the best form of control for heavy periods until such time as you're done having kids; then they can do a procedure called ablation or they can do a hysterectomy. Both of these procedures render you infertile, so that's why you wait till you're through with childbearing.
 
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