In tears in the restaurant bathroom.. TW: Periods

Read your most recent post. Do hope you feel better soon. Xx

Lucky you. You clearly haven't experienced years of the NHS not taking menstrual pain and flooding (to the point of not being able to leave the bathroom) seriously.

Not everyone is close to their in-laws and her DH was aware but stayed with his parents instead of seeing to op for more than 30 minutes. It's easier to ask strangers on Mumsnet for real time advice than interrupt a family meal with in-laws about a heavy period (which turned out to be much more sinister needing a hospital admissions). Have some empathy and understanding of different people's reactions to situations.

I had similar issues just before menopause. Had to leave work one day and had an horrific experience at an hotel abroad where I ended up washing the sheet and turning the mattress as I had flooded so badly while asleep. Luckily that seemed to be the last few periods I had. If you’re not expecting menopause (I was in my 50’s) you should seek medical help though.

My word… I am so sorry this happened to you. It sounds petrifying. Sending lots of love. I’m glad you’re safe in hospital.

But this isn't medical help bab... it's inexperienced people on the internet, I'm all for seeking advice and think this is a great forum for that. But not for something like this, the poor woman could have been haemorrhaging and this was her first port of call.

It's actually frightening.

I don’t think 111 wants to make people go away at all. They’re incredibly risk averse and it’s more the opposite where they offer out ambulances to be safe, as opposed to trying to fob people off.

Stop yapping

If she was bleeding that much, she might have been worried and not had a totally pragmatic/logistical head on? Hardly that difficult to understand that people do silly things in the moment.

From OP’s posts she simultaneously kept her family and the restaurant updated so she got support in the end. I don’t think she was expecting mumsnet to telepathically summon an ambulance? Just more so some moral support whilst she was waiting for support IRL.

This sounds horrendous OP
I hope they can sort you out. You shouldn't have to put up with this.

@Mirox1414 You get a much faster response from Mumsnet than you do from 111. You also get a lot more knowledge shared than you do from a call centre person following a script designed to make you go away.

This.
How traumatic for you Op. wishing you a speedy recovery.

@Mirox1414 people come here all the time for advice.

I do because I can't get medical help instantly and whilst I'm waiting mumsnet helps a great deal.

I've had incredible advice here and many posters have whilst actually in our shitty hospitals helping them advocate and navigate our awful nhs

The internet is literally mental, I can't believe this woman came to MUMSNET with this instead of 999 or 111

Like literally wtf is happening to the world?!

This has to be attention seeking because there's just no way anyone is bleeding out in a restaurant toilet and casually typing in a forum🤣🤣🤣

That's enough internet for me today

kin 'ell

Yes as I said I hadn’t read the whole thread and I obviously meant aspirin before the whole bleeding episode

I had this, called the 111 equivalent and they said if it's more than 1 tampon every 2h,
then go to A&E (I also had clot-type thigs coming out... and gawwwdd, I hated the 'gushing'!). They did an internal scan (all fine), then booked me in with a regular gynaecologist. Who also did an internal scan, smear test and a biopsy.

Better to get checked out. That was last month - I'd also had around 40 days of mostly bleeding, this month I've just finished a nice, normal 5 day period... so WTAF happened to my body in December!?!

Hope it's better soon.

Agree.
I had one bout of peri menopausal flooding so bad that I was bleeding through a pad in five minutes. I didn’t go to A& E but I should have, I was exhausted for so long afterwards.
Friend with similar went to hospital and they gave her something to stem the bleeding.

This sounds horrendously stressful. Sending you lots of hugs xxx

Donald Trump does.
Have you seen the back of his hands? One is smeared with makeup & the other has a gigantic bruise showing.
”I want thin blood.”
He’s nutty.

My apologies - Trump takes a massive amount of aspirin daily & was bragging about it a day or two ago. He was the first person I thought of when I saw your comment. ❤️

Really glad you got to the hospital. I have endo, adeno and PCOS and my periods were like this until I had the coil. I remember how scary it was and how the pain was super intense so please try not to feel too guilty for going to A&E. You've done the right thing and they need to work out what's causing it for you.

One thing that makes me unreasonably angry is women who apologise over and over and over for situations they have ABSOLUTELY NO CONTROL OVER.

You need to stop concerning yourself with who you're with and what they’re doing and CONCENTRATE SOLELY ON YOURSELF!!!

Hasn’t anybody from your party come in to check on you? The bastards if they haven’t. You need immediate medical attention, because what you’re describing is in no way normal.

If you think you can manage to make it to the door to catch someone’s - anyone’s - attention, try that. And ask them please to call for an ambulance.
Then sit as quietly as possible in as comfortably as possible position and wait.
Don’t worry about anything or anybody else - the folks you came with will find out soon enough when you wheel past on the gurney (or whatever it’s called).
Think about yourself.
I’m thinking about you and hoping you’ll be okay real quick and sending my love from faraway ❤️

Oh - I see I’m a day late and a dollar short. I’m thrilled you’re much better, @mygodd— please don’t ever apologise again. Much love ❤️

Your first sentence - "i know this probably sound stupid"- is so sad - women are so used to minimising female reproductive health issues

This sounds familiar to a miscarriage that I had, please take care and get checked out

I don't want to alarm you, but I experienced something similar which was an early mc , only two days after a positive test. No pain when the significant blood loss occurred but horrific cramping a day later.

Glad you're at the hospital. It sounds awful for you. Hopefully they'll be able to sort you out.