(TMI alert re periods) To be quite worried about the forensic possibilities in my bathroom?

[Rangelife]

This has got me worried. I have endometriosis and extremely heavy periods. So much so that if I have a bath or shower or go to the loo when I am in it invariably ends up on the floor and tiles. The clots need bagging up. Obviously I always clean it up as best as I can.

Today I've had to have x2 baths due to flooding and getting out of the bath caused what looked like a murder scene.

AIBU to think if by random chance I died in my bathroom suddenly or went missing etc they might be suspicious when they find microscopic traces of my blood everywhere? I'm worried they might arrest DP or something.

Can they tell the difference between period blood and normal blood?

Honestly, the clots and sheer amount is staggering.

DS had his nose broken by another kid in Reception and it erupted every time he sneezed for days. There were droplets everywhere. One sneeze could easily spray the wall 12 feet away. That's when I decided that it would be unwise to commit a murder in my own home.

Seriously. Have a hysterectomy. I had one at 45 due to fibroids that made me lose blood to the point of fainting. If i could have had one at 38 i would have. It is the best thing i ever did. Seriously.

I had endo and used to have baths with clots bobbing around me in the water like black frogspawn . I needed to lie in the bath rather than shower as it eased the horrendous pain I was in. I would just wipe with loo roll and flush the clots, then clean the bath with Flash Bathroom - the forensic implications never occurred to me! I echo pps about my hysterectomy being the best thing I ever did.

I had a hysterectomy at 37 best thing ever - wish I’d had it done sooner before my bladder was damaged though
Hope it’s an option for you
Didn’t affect my libido at all and as ovaries were left I’m having a normal menopause now in my 50s

Hi Rangelife,

I was the same as yourself, 20 days of extremely painful periods, I'd sneeze and I would be destroyed. I asked for a hysterectomy, I was 38 years old. In the procedure, I got a bowel resection, appendectomy and my womb removed. He was able to leave my ovaries, this ensured I didn't go into the change straight away.

I can honestly say it was the best thing that ever happened to me. I am pain-free, I can relax going to events, I'm not worried or planning my clothes or holidays around my periods. No weight gain either.

I would recommend you think about hysterectomy a second time. It might be the best thing you ever do.

Tazzy.

The final straw for me was walking through the supermarket and realising I had left a trail of blood - the week before I had needed to fill my car with petrol but darent as the blood was running down my legs and filling my shoes - I was sat on an incontinence pad on heaviest days

I use incontinence pads and to my utter shame because I bled heavily at work (used to work in a hospital until a month nth ago) I used the adult nappies

Oh the sneezing! And the standing up after lying down

The worst for me though is going to the toilet and turning round to get the loo roll and feeling the clots fall out and huge drops of blood splashing my beige floor tiles.

I'm so glad I'm not alone but that we have to put up with this. Right, I'm going to phone gynae tomorrow and talk through the hysterectomy options again.

Are you sure you're not the DH who is planning on murdering your wife and blaming traces of blood on menstruation? Perhaps you've started this thread on your wife phone to throw the police off the scent

damn you cracked it quest

I'm surprised there's not been a forensics poster coming to tell us how stupid we all are.

I would say that no man could know the detail of endometriosis, given they don't have a womb but that kind of dismisses male gynaecologists and my DP because he gets to hear about it in fine detail and tells me when I forgot to flush the loo!

Yes
From my vast experience of Law and Order, menstrual blood is very different but I do think you should tell your doctor what you are going through.

Crikey, How is your Iron level?

Ugh, unfortuanately I can relate to this thread. I'm simply amazed at how much blood comes out of me and how quickly. Luckily Tansemic (?) acid helps me but even so I have a couple of days a month where I have to plan very carefully what I'm going to do and often a good few more days where I have to be careful.

It's hard not to make a mess sometimes. I once bled on someone's car seat. It was an employee of my husbands so not ideal. 😂 I just thought fuck it and brazened it out. I was apologetic but not 'embarrassed' . I did carefully clean it though.

I can fill an empty mooncup in a moment. Its not something I'm proud of. 🤔

I Finished having kids over 20 odd years ago it seems such a bad design that I'm still having to deal with periods. They are pointless, annoying and messy.

I wish I'd known you lot when this was happening to me. I felt like such a freak, great lumps of liver falling out of me never mind the flooding and blacking out.

One day we were trying out mattresses for a new bed and I got up and saw a huge red stain where I'd laid down but couldn't make it out because my jeans were dry, so I touched the bloodstain and it was dry as well. It must have already been there but I couldn't believe it wasn't mine, that this awful thing had happened to someone else!

I eventually had sub total hysterectomy. I kept my ovaries but I still get monthly signs like womb cramps (how can that be when I haven't got a womb?!) and low backache and extreme tiredness. I think I must have had endometriosis but they never diagnosed that back then. I am nearly 61 and still get some monthly signs though much less.

Tranexamic acid works really well for me. You have to take it as soon as your flow starts but it cuts the flow right down. I don’t use it every month because it extends my period by a day or two (without its over in 48 hours but intense flooding which I can cope with if I can work from home).

Good luck OP. I had to tell my DD about periods when she was 4 because she came in the bathroom when I was showering one day and it looked like a scene from Carrie. Poor thing thought I was dying but it turned to fascination when I explained. Now she reminds me to boil my mooncup

I had a complete hysterectomy, they couldn’t save my ovaries but put me on HRT straight away. My Labido was better than before!

Sounds hellish OP - doctor's appointment to see if they can help? I worry about forensics in my house too - but mine is because my flipping cat relentlessly brings victims into our house to mutilate and kill and I find blood everywhere - skirtings, walls, floors ...

I watched an episode of CSI:Las Vegas and they could tell the difference and everyone knows tv always tells the truth.

I am just waiting for the GP to phone me back. They have a triage system where I live.

I have to do something. I went to the loo at 6am and it ran down the front of the toilet, onto the floor and the clot was about 15cm long. Every time I stand up I flood.

I'm back at work tomorrow so I need to sort this out. I'm exhausted. Can't tell if I'm coming down with something as have a sore throat but it could just be how heavy this period is. I'm hoping they will check my iron. Thank you for all the handholding

neverever I've bled on my own car seat but not a colleagues poor you.

Did bleed on my grans cream sofa though. She wasn't impressed.

It was only after i had the hysterectomy did i realise what an expert i had become.
Had my special cushion on my chair at work "because of my back"
Always had a long black cardi at work and a dark scarf, scarf casually put on chair at meeting and i would then sit on scarf.
Numerous holidays ruined.

You’ve watched too many Forensic files episodes!!

“And then we sprayed some luminol, which has a chemical which only reacts with human blood...”