First period - blood transfusion

[Darbs76]

Hi all

Wondering if anyone else has experienced this, my daughter started her first period last month and it didn’t end for 27 days, and only thanks due to 2 lots of medication. She gradually felt worse and worse, despite A&E telling me her bloods were fine (later found out already border line anaemic then). Dizzy, almost passing out. Took her back to A&E last Wednesday after she developed a high temp, fast heart rate and low blood pressure. Bloods showed her iron was dangerously low. She had 2 pints of blood.

She’s feeling a lot better, has to keep taking the medication to prevent a period until we see the gynaecology clinic. She’s only 5st 5 and they’ve said we have to be very careful now we know how fast her Hemoglobin can drop. For now she won’t have any periods whilst on the meds but terrified for anymore.

Anyone else experienced issues like this with periods?

I've just had similar. I was absolutely flooding at time's.

I was given northisterone which halted it after 48 hours and 24 after it ended it cam back and was flooding in 48 hours again.

I felt so ill I had convinced myself I was dying of something.

I had a coil fitted (mirena) on 5th August. Northisterone finished on the Sunday and period started on the Wednesday.

So far period been normal pattern and actually quite light for me!

Waiting for scan for coil as strings disappeared after 3 days so don't even know it's there!

But I have northisterone at home already prescribed in case I start to bleed heavily again for for a very extended period of time that I start to get ill.

(hot chocolate) for your DD.

Should say I was given northisterone again after flooding retuned in 4 days and then they decided to fit coil whilst on it.

Thanks for your reply. You poor thing. Had you had totally normal periods before then? As this is the first one (shes 12 btw) we don’t know what her normal is yet. Said it could be hormonal, mentioned a scan, but have just made it clear not to stop the tablets until we are seen. I don’t plan on doing that anyway as we have school returning soon. It was awful as she felt so terrible, felt I was wasting the doctors time keeping on ringing them but they’ve told me that any future periods any dizziness straight to A&E. I suspect she might be put on the pill.

Mine have been heavy for a few years. Was first few days but then it became changing tampon and towel every hour or 2 for first 2 days so I started mini pill.

This made them lighter but more frequent and longer.

Then lockdown happened!

Then it just went all odd. Started going completely odd on 1st June and then period 1st July didn't really stop!

Since 1st July to today I've had 11 days where I haven't bled.

8 of those were whilst I had northisterone!

If this doesn't work then They'll refer.

But I think it's much more common in my age (just turned 40) than a 12yo.