I feel helpless and hopeless - is there treatment?

I'm 32 and I started having irregular periods about two years ago. About a year ago, they became more "regular" in their irregularity. I typically have about one week a month when I don't bleed at all. The rest of the month, there is either heavy or light bleeding. It seems to get heavier as the month goes on. The past few months, the cramps that go along with the heavier days have been debillitating.

The problem didn't start until I started taking Lamictal for depression two years ago. My psychiatrist at the time (who has since passed away) told me it was okay to be a little irregular with this drug. I found out recently that he should have started me on hormone therapy as soon as my irregularity started. When I finally went to a gynecologist last November, he immediately told me that it was most likely the Lamictal that caused my problem. I am anovulatory.

I was diagnosed as hypothyroid last summer. My primary care doctors told me that once my thyroid levels were within normal limits, my period should become regular again. That hasn't happened. I started going to a holistic doctor who prescribes herbs and amino acids. I stopped taking Lamictal in November. My periods are still the same. Last Wednesday, after a really upsetting Tuesday night of starting my period once again after a week, I called my gynecologist and I'm now on Yasmin. So far I'm still bleeding but I know I need to give it at least two months.

Something that frustrates me greatly is that I can't exercise while I'm bleeding because it sets off horrible menstrual cramps. I'm sitting here looking at a treadmill that I'm afraid to use because walking on it for a little while sends me to my bed, curled up into a fetal position, waiting for the cramps to pass.

My gynecologist tried one round of progestin for 20 days but that didn't really seem to help. That was in November. I also got married in November. I did not have sex with my husband until we got married. And now I can barely have sex with him at all. This has all been devastating. I've gained a little weight, I'm depressed, I'm weak from the loss of blood.... is there any hope? I would like to have children, so an ablation is out of the question. What in the world am I supposed to do? I pray that Yasmin will work. I also have tons of people praying for me.