Hi all - I'd just like to preface this by saying that I HAVE contacted the doctors, actually I've been there many many times!
I'm now 6 months post partum and can only describe what I'm going through as utter misery. My periods came back at 3 months pp - I am not breast feeding.
They are long and very heavy. The last two have been around 33 days each, and I'm currently on day 31 of bleeding this time around. They are so heavy - I'm changing a pad every hour, up through the night, losing large clots multiple times a day, unable to go far from home etc. Luckily I'm in no pain with them, but the bleeding is ruining my life.
The GP won't prescribe me the combined pill due to migraines with aura, but they have tried tranexamic acid which has not worked. I can't have norethisterone either, due to bad reactions to that.
I've had a pelvis US which didn't show anything significant and my cervix looked clear - nothing stuck and no retained placenta. Basically, the doctors think I'm stuck in the 'baby blues' period and have very low estrogen which will eventually sort itself out.
Has this happened to anyone else?? I feel like I'm the only one and it's making me seriously miserable.