Cranberry Juice and reduced menstruation?

[vintageteacups]

So without makiing this a TMI thread, I've had heavy, lengthy 8 day periods for the past 6 years (and a 3 week cycle), since having DS (with a about 8 months of normality whilst on the pill during that time).

Last month, I drank cranberry juice during my period (initially to reduce cramp pain) but amazingly, it reduced my period to just 4 days total (and not as heavy). Other than drinking the juice, I'd done nothing different.

So for the next 3 weeks, I drank a glass of cranberry daily.

I was due on Saturday and now it's Wednesday and still pretty much nothing! Just really like the beginning of a period, then slightly red, then nothing.

Anyone else drink cranberry daily and have this effect?

It is strange because when I looked it up, it says it's more likely to increase flow as it's known to thin the blood and cannot be taken with blood clotting drugs, like warferin.

[topsi]

I am not sure. O went through a faze of making my own juice including alot of beetroot and my periods got really heavy. I never knew if the two things were related or not. I have stopped juicing now as my juicer broke and periods are back to normal??????

[vintageteacups]

Thanks Topsi. That sounds like a pretty conclusive experiment. I wiull steer clear of beetroot.

Anyone else? Now panicking a bit in case I'm pregnant! I'm surely not though...well, 99.9 % sure

[bluebobbin]

I thought it thickens the blood. Cranberry juice shouldn't be taken with warfarin because it works against the warfarin, which is trying to thin the blood.

[vintageteacups]

Whoops - think I meant anti-clotting drugs, like warfarin.

So bluebobbin - have you read that cranberry thickens the blood? Can you direct me to a link? I've been searching for ages and have found not a lot.

[bluebobbin]

I have not read it, no. I had to take vit K whilst pregnant in order to thicken my blood and I was told by doc that cranberry juice does the same (think contains vit K).

[vintageteacups]

That's fab, thanks. Will pray I'm not pregnant then .

[regina2013]

yes!! It has just happened to me vintageteacups! I have drunk a lot of cranberry juice because a friend told me that it helped her a lot to alleviate period cramps, but my period came two days ago but it's nothing like my usual periods! I get quite heavy periods and lasting a week at least.. and they are heavy since the very first day. Whether this time it is super light in colour and also it's just a very weak period, like I have no period nearly.. and I am definitely not pregnant.
I'm kind of loving it since I always get awful periods, but at the same time maybe it's not the best thing not to wash your fluids out and get a normal period..

I do think it's because of the cranberry juice though as I have done nothing different and I'm not particularly stressed at the moment.

[Sugia]

Cranberry juice is a great benefit during my period. I have fibrosis tumors in my uterus. So I bleed so heavy that I don't go to far from home. But I drank so much cranberry juice that my period was under control. The very heavy bleeding stopped. But I have a healthy diet too.

[AlfieandAnnieRose]

Wow this sounds great if it works, I think I will try the cranberry juice next time, a glass a day I could definitely manage.
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