Decidual cast and odd bleeding....

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I'm trying not to freak out, so looking for some calm advice!

I am under investigation for very heavy periods/flooding that have led to severe iron deficiency anaemia. GP put me on the pill a while back to try and limit the amount of blood lost, and told me to put packs together without a break. (I would like to have a coil fitted but it can't happen while waiting for other tests)

Yesterday I woke to find I was bleeding quite heavily, with lots of period pain, and I passed something that a bit of googling tells me is probably a decidual cast. It was very frightening and gave me quite a shock! The bleeding has now almost stopped again but the pain is not really settling at all.

I've done a pregnancy test (it's out of date as I thought those days were behind me but the control line worked fine) and it's negative.

There is next to no chance of speaking to a GP in the next few days and I'm not even sure what they could say/do, but I feel quite unnerved by it all.

Has anyone got any advice?

Hi, the same thing happened to me after I’d been taking back to back courses of norethisterone to stop constant bleeding caused by a fibroid. It completely freaked me out but my gynaecologist didn’t seem worried about it and said it can happen some times if you’ve been taking any sort of hormones especially progesterone. Definitely worth running it by a dr though especially if you are still in pain.

Thank you.

Weird how our bodies can still surprise us after so long!!

I had kind of got used to horrendous periods and at least the bleeding seemed familiar. This is all different and makes me worry more.