To assume most ladies don’t have as heavy periods as this (tmi sorry)....

[Hunnybears]

I need to wear the most absorbable tampon that you can buy. So the supper super plus super one and I have to put in a night pad and have to put two towels and a blanket down incase I ‘leak’ during night.

I always have to get up to change the tampon during night too otherwise I would flood (that’s why I have to put all the towels down etc)

For example this morning I put a new one in at say 10.15am and by 1 ish I stood up and could blood dripping down my leg as it had soaked through the tampon- again I always wear the most absorbing one.

I mean is this normal? None of my friends have ever experienced the heaviness.

I’ve always had heavy periods and used to get bad cramps but now I don’t get cramps- I can only assume it’s because my womb has been stretched with having 2 children.

It drains the life out of me this.

@Jessie

Fancy your doctor saying that to you!! 😧

Omg poor you, that sounds awful and yours sounds worse than mine for sure!!! Hope it doesn’t last too much longer for you 💐

@NameChange84

Why would someone report this thread?!

I’ve just asked the same question as you. I honestly can not understand. 🤷‍♀️ Unles it’s in the wrong topic area- fair enough

I have ridiculously heavy periods, no apparent underlying causes. I tried a mooncup but it was filling too fast, so went for a super Jennie xl cup, it’s been an absolute godsend. I still wear a pad with it as it can overflow still on occasion but I’m much more confident going out with it now. They look big and scary, I’ll warn you, but I’d never go back to tampons.

@Hunnybears

Did someone report this thread? I mean.... why? I just don’t understand 🤷‍♀️ It’s a thread about heavy periods for goodness sake!!

Thank goodness MN can see it’s a normal thread after taking a look.

Unfortunately we've had some dodgy trolls on the site in the past, so we can understand why people just want to check with us first - it's nothing personal.

And AIBU isn't the wrong place, but it's often the topic of choice for trolls, in our experience - they're after maximum attention. So we felt moving your thread over to Women's Health would be sensible - not least because we're sure you'll get plenty of responses here from Mumsnetters who know what you're going through.

Sorry for the derail - we'll dip out now.

I have very heavy periods like yours but lasts two days. Sorry tmi but it's as if it all comes out at once then it's over but is a ridiculous amount of blood for those two days. I know this isn't my thread but I wondered if anyone with heavy periods had really bad pain while ovulating. I know when I ovulate as it really hurts for two days but not as severe pain when bleeding. Had it few years now but does worry me as I don't know if it's normal never happened when younger.

That's normal for me too, also clots the size of golf balls. I find tena incontinence pants help massively with the flooding. Also ibuprofen at the maximum dose during my period helps too.

Oh that’s good to know. I might try the coil then, just heard so many bad things about it I’ve been very reluctant to get it. Thanks everyone.

Ok thank jo 😃

@Fluffykitten23

Mine doesn’t hurt when I’m ovulating although I can feel the pulling of that makes sense? Probably a bit tender.

I had periods like this and was prescribed tranexamic acid which did help.
I've now gone onto a combined pill to deal with it and it's amazing.
I obviously change regularly but I could go a whole day without needing to change a regular pad going on the flow.
Life changing for me

I was having horrendous heavy periods and agonised over getting a coil- I almost changed my mind mid-fitting! It is the best thing ever. A bit of spotting to begin with and then no periods. It’s blissful. No more worries about a period arriving in the middle of a holiday, work event etc.

Yes I used to get very very heavy periods like you described. They started in my mid 30's. Ive gd two kids. I went got the mirena coil fitted after about two years of putting up with it and it's worked wonders for me. I only get a tiny bit of spotting each month. I am on my 3rd mirena coil and am 50 this year. I can't even remember what's it's like to have proper periods now. Hope you can get it sorted op.

Definitely not normal but women & girls are fobbed off a lot with such such symptoms.

I have endo which went undx for many years. Hormonal contraception/treatment and medications like tranexamic acid really just deal with symptoms

If you're planning any/more dc especially I think it's important to get a referral to gynae and an accurate dx and treatment.

I'm currently on noriday continuously and not having periods as I FINALLY got gp to agree to this after many years of various treatments and stress.

I don't qualify for hysterectomy (not entirely sure why) but I am 47 and not having more dc.

Periods are not a necessity, they were only "included" in development of the pill to supposedly reassure women they weren't pregnant

Mine got increasingly bad like - wearing super plus tampax and leaking through them in an hour of a bad day, waking up in the night with flooding etc. I went to the GP and was diagnosed with fibroids following an ultrasound scan. They gave me tranexamic acid which is supposed to help reduce the bleeding although I'm not sure it work as I still suffered badly with it, and had a mirena coil fitted which also didn't do much! I had my fibroids treated eventually so definitely worth getting them to investigate if there's a cause.

I would urge any woman with heavy periods to get proper based help from a gynaecologist. I found the GP I saw to be out of his depth and I had to become my own advocate.

My problems with such began last August. I bled almost continuously from then with the added complication of flooding unpredictably just to make things even more crap. It also affected me mentally as well as physically; I felt utterly wretched and worn out most days. I would actually stop bleeding for one day only for it to recommence the next day. It was all over the place; sometimes heavy, sometimes light with spotting. I should have bought shares in Vanish and sanpro companies!!. Not to mention sleeping on a towel because the blood had got onto the sheet (I felt really mortified when that happened).

The GP offered me the Mirena and I told him that there was no way that I would have it anyway because of my previous endometriosis diagnosis (Mirena is not licenced still as a treatment for this even though many gynaes use it) and my feeling that it was not going to help with the heavy bleeding. He also accepted my point that the cause of all this needs to be determined as well as treating the symptoms.

I asked for and received the mini pill from the GP even though he said it may not help. He was correct. I was also prescribed more tranexamic acid which whilst stemming the flow a little to begin with did not stop the bleeding entirely. It eventually stopped working altogether

The GP arranged a blood test and after getting "normal" results no further action was taken. I was then advised that in order to see the GP I would have to wait a further three weeks or alternatively I could phone them at 8 sharp every morning to see if I could get an appointment!!. I thought no way Jose.

After a really bad flooding episode a day or so later (thankfully I was at home) I phoned a local private hospital and requested an appointment. I saw a gynae and an internal ultrasound scan was arranged; this was clear but it did show a polyp and quite thick uterine lining. The day after the scan I flooded again. The only thing that did stem the bleeding for this problem was northisterone. I mention this as this may be something that could possibly help you. This person (gynae) did not even mention the word Mirena to me. I had two weeks of no bleeding which was utterly fab. Then upon ceasing the bleeding started again a day and a half later and it came back with a vengeance. I underwent ablation surgery and since then I have had no bleeding issues. The relief I feel now is immense.

You will need to be persistent in order to get answers. You do not have to put up with this, no woman should have to put up with menorrhagia (the medical term for heavy periods).

I had periods like that. It was fibroids for me. Tried transamic acid worked a treat. Mirena was vile. Then came the glorious menopause. Your post OP brought the full horror flooding back, so to speak. Go to the Gp

Mine are horrendous, 4-500 ml a month easily a short cycles. I’ve been chronically anaemic for 10 years and my ferritin at last count was 3 so I’ve finally been offered endometrial ablation and given a better iron pill (Ferracru) as I’ve never been able to tolerate the sulphate or fumarate. I’ve been taking tranexamix acid for years too.

I had to literally say I’m not leaving this surgery until you offer me something else before they would refer me though.

Drs like fobbing women off with the cheapest option, even if it makes them feel like shit.

DD is nearly 20 but has asked me to go with her when she has an appointment to push for something to relieve the heavy periods. She went to the nurse last time (it's the nurses who deal with contraception at our surgery, regardless of the reason for needing it) and got fobbed off.

She wants me to go and help her push for a proper course of treatment. She's generally quite independent, but can still retreat into shyness when around pushy people (a remnant of having lived with her dad, we left him because he's abusive).

I'll go to help back her up, but she knows she needs to be the one doing the talking.