Blood thinners and bleeding excessively

[JollyLlama]

Sorry, TMI

I don’t know if anyone has experienced this or any kind Doctors could advise me.

I have been on blood thinners since October as I have a blood clot in my lung during pregnancy and had my baby in November.

I started my first period 2 days ago and it has been beyond horrendous. I’m having to change every 2 hours max, I took my daughter to see santa yesterday and even though I changed an hour before, blood gushed down my leg in a room full of people. I was mortified. And I was wearing the heaviest flow pads you can buy.

I’ve just got up and had to change my clothes 3 times in the night and even though I slept on a towel, it still went through to my bedsheet. The max amount of time I was laying down was 3 hours because I’m up with my baby.

It only dawned on me last night that it could be the blood thinners but the anti coag clinic is shut until at least Tuesday and I don’t know what to do. Is this normal? Is there anything I can do? I’m so worried it’s going to ruin my Christmas as we’re at my in laws and I’m terrified of leaking / gushing with blood and having to keep changing my clothes.

I would also like to add I normally have incredibly heavy periods but this is worse than anything I’ve ever dealt with!

Thanks for any advice in advance

That sounds like a plan Jolly ,I'm impressed by how calm and sensible you sound while coping with so much !

Being anaemic can actually lead to really heavy periods, so that could be a factor. Glad you're getting checked over.

@lamettarules thank you  after all the palava with my PE in my lung, I’ve just got quite used to feeling unwell recently so just try and get on with it!

@ScarlettDarling I was anaemic during my pregnancy but not my very much and took iron tablets then. I imagine it’s more to do with the blood thinners but I’ll ask whether my levels have dropped if I see someone today.

Not feeling too bright today mind. Fell asleep on the sofa at half 7, OH woke me at midnight to go up and then only woke up an hour ago. Feel bloody dreadful but the bleeding is calmer again so could be worse.

Will update after the scan and hopefully all is good there.

Good luck with the scan I'm quite anaemic at the moment and I could pretty much sleep all day if I had the chance! It's tiring. I hope your iron tablets work quickly and you soon have more energy.

Thanks for the support everyone

I’ve had a bit of a strange day actually...

I had the scan and the sonographer discovered 7mm of retained placenta. She sent me back to gynae to speak with the doctor.

The doctor was just awful. She said that there is no placenta there! The sonographer has written query retained placenta but discussed quite openly that it was there in front of me.

The doctor told me all is well, which I wouldn’t accept because I felt so dreadful and queried a bit more.

I said it may be small if it is there but if you leave something in the fridge too long it goes funny, let alone in a body!

She said all my obs are fine (aside from the high blood pressure I had on Christmas Eve but she didn’t mention that) and refused to check again even though I felt fine then except for the bleeding!

She also said my blood test was fine so I can’t understand why i feel so dreadful!

I insisted she check my obs again and was made to feel like a total nuisance and she would only check my blood pressure as a token effort and it was 128/101 which I’ve never seen it that high (on the bottom at least) before, especially as I was too tired to be too worked up. She then said my blood thinners should make it lower, so god knows what it would have been without them.

I assumed it should reflect as being low because of the bleeding so that puzzled me.

Prescribed some tablets to stop the bleeding which I’m sure I shouldn’t take with the thinners as they would clot the blood?

So essentially I was told there’s something there, albeit small. Then told nothing’s there. Then told I’m perfectly fine even though I keep having episodes of feel shaky and faint (I checked my temperature when I got home and it’s fine) and that I should see my gp about my blood pressure.

So I’m at a bit of a loss really! No idea why I feel dreadful as everything seems fine and no idea how long I will bleed for. I’ll contact my gp to check if I can take those tablets but I guess I just have to ride this one out and hope I feel better in a few days!

What a day it definitely seems worth trying to speak to a GP

Oh I so sorry that you've drawn the short straw and got one of those HP's .
It seems there's always one ,doctors are only human I guess .

Absolutely you must go to your GP and try and get some help to feel better .

Could you ring ooh to ask advice about taking the new medication with blood thinners ? Or could your DH/P visit a late night chemist to ask a pharmacist ?

Good luck ,it takes a lot of energy ( plus on tap child care ) to chase this kind of thing up and that's just what you don't have .