Heavy Periods?

Question

I have excessive bleeding and clots during my periods. Anyone else experienced this before? and if so, any cure available?

Answer 1

Yes that happened to me. It took the gyno forever to figure it out. I had 2 things going on--one, I had a large polyp in my vagina that needed to be removed (not a fibroid, but those can cause heavy bleeding also). Two--I had an under-active thyroid. Your thyroid controls that area. I had the medication adjusted and surgery to remove the polyp and the periods have returned to normal.

Get your thyroid levels checked first. It is a daily pill if that is what it is, and the benefit is that I also lost 35 pounds when they adjusted my thryroid levels.

Answer 2

Menorrhagia
Menorrhagia is recurrently heavy bleeding during menstruation.
About a third of women describe their periods as heavy. The average blood loss during menstruation is typically about 40ml. With menorrhagia the loss is 80ml or more.
Women with menorrhagia may have to use double sanitary protection - towels and tampons - and the heavy bleeding may stop them from doing normal activities because of flooding through clothes, for example.
In most cases no cause can be found. However, there may be an underlying cause such as endometriosis or fibroids.
It is important to investigate the bleeding and check that it is not due to something more sinister like cancer of the uterus or cervix.
The treatment depends on the cause. If there is no underlying problem that needs treating, the bleeding can often be reduced with non-hormonal tablets (tranexamic acid), oral contraceptives or by fitting a contraceptive coil into the womb.
If these do not work, a woman might want to consider surgery to remove the uterus completely or have the womb lining stripped.
She may also need to take iron or folic acid supplements if the blood loss has made her anaemic.
Please see the web pages for more details on Menorrhagia.

Answer 3

This is normal had it for years and years Dr describes it as tissue sluffing off you normally get cramps too from it .

Having a baby helped a lot it seemed for some reason didn't cure it but had the huge tissue (chunks) less and less.What I did is make sure I have a normal BM during that time eat right don't drink as much caffeine because that seems to aggravate it.Take warm baths exercise doing the CAT stretch where you get on all 4 and stretch your whole back like a cat and then hunch like when they hiss It seem to straiten out the uterus Moist hot pack to the tummy and Midiol drug seems to help too. All suggestions made by my female doc and they worked for me .

If its been a long time since you had a pap or this has all of a sudden just started go and get it check out could be fibroid /cysts Ussally not the case though.

Answer 4

I have actually been going to the doctor about this for years. The most I've been told is I could have a hysterectomy or a newer procedure where they put saline in your uterus and heat it to almost boiling and then flush it it out. I'm sorry I can't remember the name of this one. Talk to your doctor though. There could be a lot of reasons for this., fibroid tumors for one. They checked me for that with an ultrasound and that one was clear.

Good luck.

Answer 5

You must consult a gynec ASAP., since heavy periods may indicate
hormonal imbalance or fibroids. Blood tests and Pelvic sonography may be rquired. If ignored it will lead to severe anaemia and general debility in addition to the distress caused during those days

Answer 6

You have received several good answers. I echo them and say get to the doctor. It could be nothing, and I hope it is. I wish I had gone when I had these problems. Mine was endometriosis and I ended up with a hysterectomy. If I had gone to the doctor earlier, that probably would not have happened...I waited 10 years. Don't be stupid like me. Get to the gyno to make sure nothing is wrong. Good luck!

Answer 7

length would not count number number, i imagine it is basically all of us is distinct. i'm skinny as fck, i'm purely 100 kilos and that i'm 15 and 5"5 that's underweight and that i'm a skinny little athletic twig lol and my era is heavy, i imagine it is all in what you devour or something, often times your era might want to be mild often times it would want to be heavy it relies upon on the excercise you're attempting this month, and what you devour, etc

Answer 8

Most women have this, its normal. There is no cure for being normal.

Answer 9

it happence so many girls but if it is very heavy than go to the doctor .