Never ending period

[Feelsyuk]

I had covid March 2020 and subsequent long covid until January of this year. During this time, I barely had a *Normal period, they lasted only a day or two some months and were very light.
I got covid again at the end of May and have now had a period for 5 weeks. It will stop for a day or two and then start again, lots of the time I have clots.
Its worrying me. I’ve booked for an internal but that’s in 3 weeks.
Anyone else had this?

My periods went crazy in the run up to menopause, looking back I didn't realise I was in Peri but then my periods stopped abruptly and I went 8 months without one, followed by a 10 month run. I was 44.
I too had periods that wouldn't end.
I was prescribed Norethisterone for those, which stopped them quite quickly.
I had scans to check there was nothing more going on, but looking back now, I was clearly in peri!

I regularly soak through an ultra tampon in an hour these days. My body thinks I need to have my whole period in 36 hours and then barely spot for the next 4.5 days until a big finish at the end. I’m not a candidate for an endometrial ablation because of my uterine scarring and I am too tantalizingly close to full menopause to deal with a hysterectomy and the potential complications. My doctors aren’t concerned and just have me taking iron.

Back when I had the fibroid, at the worst times sometimes I just stayed in the bathroom if I could tell a big clot was coming as the cramping ramped up and my cervix dilated enough for it to pass. I would often use a deck of playing cards as the reference point for the size of the clots to describe them to my doctor because mine tended to come out in big thick sheets.

@Peanutlicious It feels similar, like all the months I had barely a proper period stored it all up and it’s coming now 🤷🏻‍♀️
I had an ovarian cyst years ago and I remember being given medication and having heavy bleeding like this for a day or two.
Today it’s so bad I don’t see how I could go out like this. Annoying it’s summer too as there’s no way I feel comfortable wearing shorts or a dress at the moment like this

Was going to say this too.

Yes peri I had same. Had coil as it was making life impossible. Took about 6-12 months to settle but masses better and then not had any bleeding at all since with coil. See if can get iron levels checked as I became anaemic. Ibuprofen may cut the bleeding down a bit.

@Weatherwithme How did you feel when anaemic? Symptoms? Would I become anemiac in 5 weeks? Getting paranoid as do feel quite weak/tired/dizzy and have headache

Being anaemic can cause heavy periods.

Yes weak and tired. Lack of focus at work. Brain fog. It was relief to find out it was anaemia as easily fixed with iron tablets

@Weatherwithme Did you just take normal iron supplements? Perhaps I should take in case

@KangarooKenny Need to get a blood test I think

My low ferritin symptoms included - pins and needles in my hands/arms, slightly breathless when waking 15 mins or more, slight breathless if walking and talking, palpitations, tiredness.

@KangarooKenny Excuse my ignorance, are low ferritin and low iron levels the same? Which should I be asking for to be tested?

Ask to test your iron levels and they will check HB and ferritin.

If you have been bleeding heavily and clotting for five weeks you could be seriously anaemic. Feeling weak and exhausted are signs. Breathless on exertion, nail beds may be pale.

If you are really feeling unwell you should call for medical advice and even attend A&E. I know someone who kept hanging on and eventually felt so poorly she went and was kept in for an urgent blood transfusion. She could have died had she kept waiting. There are drugs that can stop it and then investigations to understand the cause.

Yea I did.

I had adenomyosis and had a hysterectomy 2 weeks ago.

My cycle was like yours and never ending and huge cramps in my side followed by clots.

Mine got much worse after I had covid in 2020 too although it had been getting worse and worse up until then anyway so it may be coincidence!

33 and my periods have been insanely heavy since having covid in march. The only time they've ever been this heavy have been after having my two kids and a couple of months after each covid jab. One of my best mates is experiencing super heavy periods too and she had covid before me. Also she's having prolonged bleeding outside of her period.

Yes stop start bleeding. Exactly what happened to me.

im back in my regular cycle now but my periods are much heavier.

I'm 41 btw. So doubt peri was adding much to my problems.

Although I have my ovaries they'll die in next 5yrs on average and I'll have a surgical menopause but I'll get hurt straight away because they'll know what's causing it and it's caused surgically!

I appreciate this thread is now quite old but just wondering how things panned out @feelsyuk as I’m experiencing exactly the same. Constant heavy bleeding with clots. Sometimes massive (and I mean massive). Other times about an inch. I wake up each day hoping it may be over and for a while I have nothing and then whoosh. Impossible to have any kind of life as no idea when it will hit. Impossible to be out when it happens. Just grateful to work from home save for a day a week.

I had this last summer, booked an appointment with drs dater 5 weeks of bleeding & flooding. Due to my age 54, I had ultrasound scans, lots of internals examinations, a day at John Radcliffe’s women’s outpatient- they were really nice. I was also given tranexamic acid tablets which stopped the bleeding. They had to check it was ovarian cancer - plus other things. It ended up being ovarian cysts and easily sorted. The dr was brilliant

You might find this recent thread helpful
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/general_health/4813116-fecking-womb-lining-is-too-bloody-thick-help