I Need Advice/Help Please. Warning graphic female content and super long post.

I have typed and deleted this post so many times, but I am at a loss and need help. I am a research and reading geek so I feel like I am well versed in the various content and studies about fasting, including the ones that specialize in fasting for women.

I like fasting, it makes sense to me and although my weight loss is slow, the other benefits are great and I don’t find it that difficult. I have been fasting off and on for 4 years and I mix up different times and lengths. For 4 years I have had horrible periods, I will spare you the sordid details, but I basically can’t leave the house they are so bad. During the first 2 years I had my period every single f*cking day. I saw 3 gynos and they all said the same thing, they can’t see that anything is wrong but I should get a hysterectomy. I’m not doing that. I am 55 and so close to them being done for good, plus I don’t believe in removing body parts.

So for the last 2 years I intentionally would stop and start fasting to see if there was any impact on my cycle. Whenever I fast, regardless of how often and long, it would trigger my period and it would last weeks. If I stopped fasting, the period would stop and not come back. First time I went 5 months without fasting or my period and the second time I went 6 months. Both times I though hey maybe this is it and I started fasting and wham right back into horrible periods.

So, my brain says fasting is really screwing with my hormones, but I also know in order to fix my hormones I need to lose weight. I also I know that fat holds estrogen and during weight loss you are releasing estrogen and that can mess with your cycle.

As a side note, I have exhausted every option trying to deal with the crazy periods so please don’t suggest bc, IUD’s ablation, other medical intervention - been there done that. And the whole kicker is my iron levels bottomed out due to severe blood loss, which caused a whole bunch of other symptoms. I finally fixed that but then I haven’t been fasting, thus no period.

So, do you throw the towel in and are just one of those people that fasting isn’t for you or is there a magical solution that I am somehow overlooking?

Thanks for reading, and please be kind in your response.