I'm 51 and since the start of this year I've been having periods that last for weeks at a time. I had one in the spring that lasted 7 weeks and I'm now on week 6 of another one. I feel utterly drained and exhausted, because I'm losing so much blood. I'm borderline anaemic anyway and my ferritin was so low last year (before all this started) that I was put on iron supplements. I'm still on them a year later, but they make me constipated and feel sick and I hate them.
I've been to the GP, who basically offered me nothing but 'There, there, you just have to ride it out'. I'm on HRT (Oestrogel and Mirena coil) and they did check me for uterine cancer, as bleeding like this is a symptom, but thank goodness that came back all clear. I'm going to go back to the GP again, but can anyone offer me any advice about what to ask for, any medications that helped them, any lifestyle changes that helped? Tranexamic acid can apparently only be taken for a few days, so it's really not going to help me with this bleeding that goes on for weeks on end and it's not that the bleeding is heavy (it isn't) it's just endless.
I take regular exercise, I've already decided that I need to increase the protein in my diet as that is definitely lower than it should be, I am otherwise healthy (AFAIK), so it's just this endless bleeding that is debilitating me.