To think my age is the cause of my heavier periods

[Petals23]

I'm 44. For the last 7 months my periods have become much heavier for the first couple of days... flooding, staining trousers etc. Anyone else my age experience this?

Could very well be peri-menopause. Exactly this happened to me after a lifetime of very mild periods. Any other issues/symptoms going on? Trouble sleeping, increased anxiety, brain fog, night sweats, joint aches, hot flushes, headaches, etc...

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Yes oh my god yes, so sorry for you, as you are younger than I when it started to go like that for me.. I put up with it for three years ! Three dam years of not being listened to by doctors till i got in front of the right one,, ask for a microwave ablation or whatever the current procedure is called.
Have you finished having children ?
It was brilliant for me, one or two very light periods after the op, then NOTHING FOR YEARS AND YEARS , now menopausal so on to a different set of problems but none related to that op as there aren’t any.
If you don’t ask you don’t get, And keep asking

That's a classic perimenopausal symptom. My periods started getting irregular and much heavier at 44. I put up with it for a miserable two years then got a Mirena coil - which was an instant cure, no more periods, at all, ever, and I'm postmenopausal now. It's not suitable for everyone but if it works for you, it's amazing.

It could be your age or also something such as Polyps. I’d make a GP appointment. I had heavy periods at 44/46 and had a coil and also some polyps removed and that really helped.

I read that most women have a spell of anovulatory periods before full menopause. That means periods happen but without ovulation, and for some reason no ovulation means they get heavier.

So I kind of think you're right, but it's indirectly an effect of age.

Yup! Very common. It could be that your estrogen levels are high, relative to progesterone. This is peri meno; hormonal fluctuations might send your cycle out of whack too. Fibroids, which feed off estrogen, can also cause heavy bleeding. If it becomes unmanageable you might want to get a gynae referral just to check for fibroids, ovarian cysts or polyps, which can all affect bleeding levels.

Make sure you supplement with iron after a heavy one, it's easy to become quickly depleted. I also think that the lower your iron levels, the more you bleed! I found that vitamin K (a clotting factor) was useful, and ginger. I also took a supplement called D.I.M which helps your liver metabolise estrogen more efficiently, it was v effective.

Menopause is shit!

I’m 44 and first two days have become extremely heavy and I cope by using a moon cup.

This happened to me in my mid 40s. I kept being fobbed off by my GP as it being peri-menopause. The bleeding got heavier and heavier over 3 years and the GP still wouldnt do anything. It affected all areas of my life. work was a nightmare as I had to keep leaving meetings every 30 minutes to change my sanpro.

Eventually I insisted on a gynae referral. wad diagnosed with fibroids and had them removed. Periods went back to normal. That was a few years ago. I'm now 53 and no sign of the menopause coming whatsoever.

I'm 41 and now on pill to control periods after they were ruling my life and I was very aneamic. I want them gone. Gp said I can stay on pill until 50.