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AIBU to want further investigation for 17 days of bleeding?

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TheTipsyCat · 23/09/2026 17:13

Warning - post contains health info.

I have been bleeding from my vagina for 17 days. I am feeling dreadful - exhausted, stomach and lower back pain, headaches etc. I went to the GP after I had been bleeding for 12 days and she ordered lots of blood tests. I’m 43 so she thought perhaps peri/menopause. She examined my cervix but all looked well. I had a call today with another go to discuss blood results. All fine. Nothing to suggest anaemia or peri/menopause. He said it could just be one of those things. I said I couldn’t continue bleeding like this. I told him I have an increased risk of breast cancer and as a result am screened yearly. He didn’t comment, but I explained I was concerned about the hormone link to breast cancer and genealogical cancers. Again he didn’t comment. He said he would prescribe tranxemic acid which would stop the bleeding entirely. I then asked what the next step would be. He seemed confused. I said terms if diagnosing rh cause of the bleeding. He said just wait to see if it stopped and if so if it happened again. I said I didn’t feel this was enough and he asked what I would kike to happen. I said an investigation into why I was currently on day 17 of bleeding which does not look like stopping, why I am bloated and in pain all the time with a heaviness in my stomach. He eventually said he could refer me for a pelvic ultrasound, but has since come back to say there’s not enough evidence of me needing a scan, and even if the bleeding continues it still won’t be enough evidence.

I just feel this is not good enough. I will take the tranxemic acid but I would like to find out the cause of the bleeding. AIBU??

OP posts:
TheOccupier · 23/09/2026 17:29

It's probably peri. I had a 6-week period!

GoodGirlFaith · 23/09/2026 17:31

Very irregular bleeding was really my only symptoms of peri menopause. I took the mini pill which eventually stopped my periods. I am 54 now and stopped taking the pill in January last year and have not had a period.

I was very worried at the time as I had no idea that irregular bleeding was a symptom and it took 4 visits to the GP before someone actually explained that it was, in fact, normal.

TheTipsyCat · 23/09/2026 17:34

GoodGirlFaith · 23/09/2026 17:31

Very irregular bleeding was really my only symptoms of peri menopause. I took the mini pill which eventually stopped my periods. I am 54 now and stopped taking the pill in January last year and have not had a period.

I was very worried at the time as I had no idea that irregular bleeding was a symptom and it took 4 visits to the GP before someone actually explained that it was, in fact, normal.

I hope you’re right. He said it wasn’t peri going by my blood work. I’m just concerned as there’s such a link between breast cancer and gynae cancers. I just feel as if I’ve been left. I can’t take the pill/mini pill because if my BC risk. He only offered the acid when I said I can’t continue to bleed like this.

OP posts:
HelpfulHelena · 23/09/2026 17:36

Yanbu. If it’s unusual enough and bad enough for you to see a gp I think he has a responsibility to investigate.

The tranexamic acid is a short term fix.

I return to the strong belief that if a man bled for 17 days and was in pain, he wouldn’t be ignored.

SALaw · 23/09/2026 17:53

TheTipsyCat · 23/09/2026 17:34

I hope you’re right. He said it wasn’t peri going by my blood work. I’m just concerned as there’s such a link between breast cancer and gynae cancers. I just feel as if I’ve been left. I can’t take the pill/mini pill because if my BC risk. He only offered the acid when I said I can’t continue to bleed like this.

Well I mean you could say if a man was heavily bleeding for 5 days and in pain something would be done but that describes a monthly experience for a huge number of women. And also I’d say that even men don’t necessarily get the investigative procedures you might expect in such circumstances. My Dad who died this year was losing lots of blood internally but had cancer and so it was sort of treated as “one of those things”.

VerySwettyBetty · 23/09/2026 17:53

Hi OP. Your GP is supposed to follow the appropriate NICE guidelines, & if you're able to find the guidelines that seem appropriate for your situation they can be very useful as a way to ensure that you get the correct follow-up / treatment. Have a look here in case it helps: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/conditions-and-diseases/gynaecological-conditions

https://gpnotebook.com/en-GB/pages/gynaecology/referral-criteria-from-primary-care-abnormal-uterine-bleeding

As someone at risk of hormone-dependent cancer, that website info suggests that you should be referred.

Gynaecological conditions | Topic | NICE

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/conditions-and-diseases/gynaecological-conditions

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