Heavy Or Prolonged Bleeding During Perimenopause

I am now forty nine years old. I had my first menstrual cycle ten days before I turned eleven so it was no shock to me when I started having signs of perimenopause in my mid forties.

It started off easy enough with my monthly cycle changing its pattern, occasional night sweats, not sleeping as well and finding myself being more emotional than normal. All things you would expect can happen.

During the past six to twelve months it has taken on some new changes. I have many nights that I can not sleep for more than five hours. My cycles have been about two weeks apart; averaging one and a half cycles per month. My period flow is heavier and longer than before. When I miss a cycle, the next one lasts twice as long.

I missed the month before last so I expected the next one to be longer. What I did not expect was for it to last for a month or for it to keep getting heavier as that month went on. Flooding of the heaviest over night pads started to occur. I also passed larger than normal blood clots that got worse as the bleeding continued.

During the fourth week I began taking iron supplements, every other day, because I was worried about becoming anemic due to the blood loss. In hindsight, I should have called my Physician sooner but I waited until near the end of the fourth week.

When I seen my Doctor, he confirmed that it can make you anemic. They tested me and I was borderline anemic, even though I had taken the iron supplements.

Anemia is a serious condition and it may not be the only one you have to worry about. An estrogen-progesterone imbalance, polyps, and fibroid growth during perimenopause can also cause heavy prolonged menstrual bleeding.

About twenty five percent of woman experience this type of extreme heavy bleeding during perimenopause. I was not aware of this fact until it happened to me.

The moral of this story is to make women aware this can happen and that you should see your Physician if it happens to you.

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iron will be faster taken up by your body coming in by naturalform. Like abricots per instance and endive, but have a look online and fix your selve a daily smoothy with it. Good luck, i believe i am nearly through mine.. No bleedings anymore now for 2years, but hotwaves !!! terrible, sometimes i see people look, and a few times they offered me a chair and a glass of water. It can make you feel so horrible ! Hope it will give you not to much sorrows.

Thanks! I've been trying to deal with it as natural as possible but this bleeding was nothing like I had experienced before.

The Physician talked about putting me on estrogen if it happens again but I'd rather take a different route if I have to resort to doing sometime about it.

I hope your hot flashes stop soon. You'd think mother nature would cut us a break since we give birth. lol

Thanks for the tip. I am pretty sure I am starting to become that way myself. Early stages nothing like you have had so far. But I already know I am anemic at times. I will keep an eye out now that I know I should.

Generations before us didn't talk much about this stuff so I feel its important to share what we know. I wish I had known more sooner.

Thanks for sharing Deb. I am 51 and am going through the same thing but I had a partial hysterectomy many years ago so I don't have periods and don't have any issues there but here is a tip... If iron levels are low cook with iron skillet and pair iron rich foods with vitamin c to help absorption.

Thanks! I never thought about an iron skillet and I think we have one.

I did read not to drink tea or have dairy within the hour of having iron because that makes the body not absorb as much of it. I am an avid tea drinker so I am sure I was breaking that rule. lol

lol yes and just something as simple as cooking your steak with red bell peppers (also high in vitamin C) on an iron skillet or even just having a couple of slices of kiwi or orange on the side of your plate. Over time your levels should come up.

You just made me want kiwi and I've not had it in awhile. lol

lol now I am craving it as well

Nice post you share about health topics

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