Fibroids and clotting - Warning - graphic photo

I have a fibroid measuring 16cm by 12cm - I feel your pain.

Yup that's nasty! Is that a maternity pad too? I bulk bought them during my last nightmare period. No fibroids here but absurdly thick endometrium. I'm waiting on biopsy results and have a mirena in. Hoping against hope the next period isn't as bad. I've got tranexmic acid too. Have you tried that?

Thanks. Sending you love and support too ❤️

Have you had your iron levels checked? I needed a blood transfusion after passing clots for months.
Are you sure your Mirena is still in? Mine came out with a clot.

Is it fibroids that cause you to get clots like that or the coil?
I’ve been passing clots like this (or larger) for a few years and my GP won’t do anything, they keep telling me it’s normal and some people ‘just get clots’. I also get extreme pain before and during my periods and my cramps feel like contractions but I can’t get referred anywhere to get it investigated. I’m not on any birth control etc.

Oh my god OP, you poor thing. We put up with so much. I hope you get your hysterectomy soon.

I've had a mirena in for heavy periods, I bled for 6 weeks after and only recently stopped. This doesn't fill me with hope.

Contact your hospital and tell them the coil has come out. Might help them bump you up the list a bit.

@Vgtasd I’ve considered fibroids, ovarian cysts, endometriosis etc as possible causes.
Thank you, I’ll be pushing for a gynae referral once the GP opens next week.

I hope your bleeding calms down and you get things sorted out xxx

That looks like you've actually passed a couple of fibroids.

I was about to post watch out for the clots pulling the coil out.

I had adenomyois and passed clots like that and bigger (about 20 a day) and I lost 2 coils through it.

Ask for ferritin to be checked. Mine was really low and caused all sorts of symptoms.

Glad you're waiting for a hysterectomy. I had mine removed last year (kept my ovaries) and it really has been life changing.

Whilst I was waiting I had northisterone daily to stop my periods - could you discuss this option with the GP?

You poor thing. I went through that. My gynae didn't exactly believe how much I was bleeding so I put a measuring cup under my vagina and caught the blood, so I could tell him how much it was. And then I passed a clot the size of my palm. How do I know? I pulled it out of the loo and measured that, too. I had a myomectomy where they removed 2 fibroids. They did spare my uterus and I was still able to have DC. Eventually I did have a hysterectomy because the fibroids went crazy during pregnancy.

I had fibroids and adenomyosis - very low time in my life. I was told a hysterectomy is the only way to cure the problem which I had together with a blood transfusion. Got my life back.

I was passing clots far bigger than that and don’t have fibroids, but do have ‘fibrotic changes’, whatever that means. My clots were palm sized, plopping out of me whenever I stood up, making me anaemic and faint.

I also had the mirena in Jan, but it has sorted me out entirely and stopped all bleeding. It took a few months to settle though.

Hope you get it sorted OP.

I also pass palm-sized clots - Tranexamic acid tends to reduce them to a size similar to yours, but I can only take it for four days at a time which isn't long enough. My periods go on for 11 or 12 days and I have a three week cycle (irregular) so feel lucky when I get five days off bleeding between periods. I'm so miserable - mine have got much worse since my Mirena was spontaneously expelled along with a clot. Have only managed to have sex twice so far this year because of them.
So no help, but solidarity with you. Push the GP for a proper gynae referral, that's what I want.

Are clots like that due to fibroids? I have to admit I thought clots were kind of normal (I pass them a lot), are they not?

I'm sorry OP that you are in pain.