Vaginal bleeding for more than a month?

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I have been bleeding pretty non stop since my last period, so slightly over a month. Sometimes it is a pink discharge and others like a full blown middle of period bleeding.

E.g. Last night I had very light pink discharge, this morning it was red and clearly blood.

To avoid drip feeding,

I have an IUD so don't take any hormone based med
Three DC youngest is 2
PCOS when younger but really quite mild and only real symptoms were 50 day intervals between periods
Only meds I take are beta blockers for migraine and ibuprofen as and when.

It just doesn't seem to be letting up and I am wondering if anyone has experienced similar.

Go to your GP and get them to have a look and if needs be a gynae investigation. Might be an infection or the IUD causing irritation for example but checking it out won't hurt.

Have thought about doing a pregnancy test?

Domething similar happened to me and it was an early miscarriage. I know you have a coil but it could happen.

(And I would go to gp asap)

I had this on and off for a year (blamed on perimenopause) until someone thought to scan and found my IUD was out of position. Removed, replaced, job done.

When was your last smear? might be worth getting one done if its been a while

OP, sorry you're having this problem, I know how horrid it is. I will be following this thread with interest as I have had almost exactly the same problem. I too have a copper iud (no hormones), and a few months ago was bleeding constantly and unevenly for over a month, exactly as you describe. All HCPs I've spoken too have dismissed the coil as a cause for all this, but I am wondering.

I went to a gyno health clinic who said my coil looked okay, and nothing seemed obviously wrong from a quick check. I've been on the waiting list for a scan to check for fibroids since then (over three months).

What does seem to have settled things down is a course of acupuncture. I say this as a Ben-Goldacre-worshipping sceptic, but six sessions over the last three months have coincided with a return to normal cycle for me. To be honest, I also really found a practitioner who would sit down and talk though my symptoms and my feelings about it all for half an hour plus each session - not the rushed 3 minutes you get in the GP / clinic - made me feel a lot better in itself.