In my teens my periods were horrendous, painful, heavy and every 2 weeks.
In my early 20's they calmed to light 3-4 day long periods. I went on the mini pill and it stopped them altogether, bliss.
I had a child, I stayed off the pill and they were still light, short and painless.
I have another child and they returned 8 months post birth. They were horrendous, went to doctors, had a polyp and got it removed.
That was 4 years ago, today they are still horrendous, a second scan last month showed no return of any polyps, smear and STD test is clear and periods are every 30 days like clock work.
Yet they are so heavy. In an hour I got through 4 super plus size tampons. 10 minutes after changing one I was flooding right through it, the clots are the size of half the palm of my hand, and Ive had to just sit on the toilet before to let it run out because there was simply no point using a tampon as minutes later I would flood.
I have a prolapse uterus and bladder, thats the only thing thats 'different' I can no longer use a moon cup et al because of this.
I went back on the mini pill thinking it would stop my periods again, but has it bollocks. The combined pill makes me insane and menefenamic acid does precisely fuck all.
Im sick of bleeding, Im sick of spending a fortune on Spatone because I get really ill otherwise. Im sick of periods.
Please or to access all these features
Please
or
to access all these features
AIBU?
To think Im too damn old to be suffering with periods this bad?
136 replies
LumpenproletariatAndProud · 03/09/2014 12:28
OP posts:
Don’t want to miss threads like this?
Weekly
Sign up to our weekly round up and get all the best threads sent straight to your inbox!
Log in to update your newsletter preferences.
You've subscribed!
Please create an account
To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.