Irregular Period--help please!

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I am at a complete loss here. I have had PCOS since I was 16. I am now 29. For the entire time, it has been a real struggle for me to get a period. I have been on birth control to regulate, provera, and more recently metformin. The birth control made my blood pressure rise and the provera is what I used for most of my teen years. More recently I have been on Metformin, but I never quite got the hang of taking it 3 times a day. For the past few months I have been taking nothing, just trying to diet and eat better. Normally, when I do this, I will get a period pretty regularly, it's just hard to stick to. So in July...July first to be exact I got my first period from just eating healthy. It is now August 15th and I have been bleeding the whole time!!! Most days it's a pretty medium flow but a sometimes I will have surges of heavier flow and even clotting. I am waiting on a refund check from an insurance company that owes me money to be able to go to the doctor and have this checked out. I am also going to be finding a new doctor because the last one was not much help. I debated going to the ER but I feel certain they will just tell me to go to a gynecologist. On one hand, I just feel like this is a case of PCOS being PCOS, but on the other I am really concerned it might be something worse. I can say that 99.9% of the time I am not in any kind of pain or cramping. On occasion, I do have a cramp, but it's nothing greater than average period cramps. If anything, it has been a major annoyance and inconvenience. I just want it to go away! Thoughts on this? Advice? Going to a doctor is a no brainer, but because I am not insured or working (college student), I can't go until I have the money myself to go. I am expecting this insurance check to come any day now and will schedule an appointment immediately, but in the meantime I am hoping someone can tell me they have experienced something similar or knows someone who has and even what could cause this. Right now, I pretty much expect that when I go to the doctor, if it's nothing serious, they will put me on one of the newer pills and maybe metformin again but maybe I am way off base here. Please help!