I am 33.
I've been having a period for around 2 weeks and every single day it's been extremely heavy. I've been soaking through a tampon and pad onto my clothes. I go through a large pad in an hour. I can feel it coming out of me when I've been sat or lay down for a while and on the toilet. There's a lot of clots. When I stand up from the toilet I'm having to pick clots up which have come out of me just from standing up.
Today is seems to finally be coming to an end. I'm on the contraceptive implant and have been for over a year and a half. I've been having really irregular periods with it so it's hard to say exactly when they stop and start, which makes it hard to say whether I bleed between periods or not. They often all seem to blend together with some days in between where I don't bleed but honestly I don't track it.
I've been having a lot of bleeding but for the first year or so it wasn't particularly heavy. I have needed to use higher absorbency pads the last few months but this extreme level of heaviness has only really started with this one. The only other time I've ever had a period like this is the first period after having my son, and after that I went on the implant.
I suffered birth trauma and developed a lot of distrust in medical professionals and also a lot of anxiety about examinations, speculums etc. To be honest I've kind of just been thinking heavy periods are one of those things. I've considered getting the implant out anyway, as I'd got it in hoping it'd get rid of my periods like it did the last time I had it many years ago. I also feel it's messing with my moods, but I keep putting off the appointment.
However with this very heavy period, the last day or so I've started feeling quite lightheaded and weak. I googled last night and have got myself into a bit of a state thinking it could be something like cancer (I do know google always says its cancer).
I rang the GP this morning but I'm in the process of switching to a new GP (I moved house) and they don't have my records through yet on the system. It's likely to be another few days before I'm fully transferred over. They said they'd speak with a colleague to see if they can get me sorted sooner but when I told them the symptoms, they didn't seem concerned. They said I can expect a call later today and that if they couldn't get me an appointment today then maybe for tomorrow.
Even though my period seems to be stopping today, I'm still feeling really odd - weak, tired, no energy and lightheaded. However, tomorrow I have a presentation at work where I need to be in the office which is an hour and a half away from my home and GP.
I know it sounds silly, but when told to do this presentation, I failed to hide my annoyance that I'm the one who has been made to do this presentation yet again when there are others in my team who could do it and always seem to get out of it. If I end up missing this presentation it likely isn't going to look great and it's going to look like I've done it on purpose. Because the office is so far away, it's not easy to nip out for a quick appointment and come back.
Since my period is ending now, would it be reasonable to just wait until next week for an appointment, even with my symptoms? Or is this something where I should get in as soon as they'll fit me in, and I should just tell work there's nothing I can do about it? I have a lot of anxiety and obviously have googled too much, so I no longer know if I'm under or overreacting.
Also, when I do go to the GP, what should I expect them to do? I know there's medicine they can give to reduce heavy bleeding but should I also be expecting / pushing for things like blood test for anaemia, scans etc to find the cause of this?