I just wanted to ask if anyone else has periods that seem to just gush blood within the first day or two and get really light in comparison on day 3 until the end? And does anyone else have blood clots with it? By that, I mean, clots of blood coming out as well as...well everything else. For as long as I can remember, that's how my periods have been and I was just wondering if anyone else had clots and all that. I suppose it's normal, after all, it's not just blood coming out, but good grief, I was in the shower today and had blood literally running down my leg. It's never done that before...Weird. Doesn't feel any more painful than any other period...I dunno, just venting. Any insight or fairly natural ways of breaking up the clots before they come out would be nice. Haha...this post came out sounding really gross...
Yeah, that's how my period is. But when mine is heavier, my cramps are ten times worse. I think it's normal.. lol.
I used to be like that, then I went on depo for a couple years ago and it kinda made my period weird. Now I'm on the pill, it also makes it lighter Do mention it to your doc though... sometimes things like endometriosis can be indicated by unusually heavy periods, particularly if this isn't how you used to be since you started getting them regularly. Just to be sure, eh?
I had them like that as a teen. So horrible that I couldn't get out of bed. ow, they last maybe 3 or 4 days and never heavy or painful.
Before I got on the pill, my periods gushed for a whopping NINE days really heavy and blood clots galore. My cramps had me doubled over in bed wishing I would die most of the time. That was my normal period, though. If yours is different....you should definitely see a gyno or something. It may be nothing, it may be something.
The last few months have been like that for me. Two to three days of HEAVY bleeding and clotting...then three or four days of a really really light flow. I have to talk to my doc about it because my cramps for the first and second day have been debilitating the past four months or so.
it can be a sign of excess estrogen. if this is the first time your period has ever been like that, it could be a really early miscarriage. Taking magnesium daily has really helped slow my flow down and gotten rid of the clots, and lessened the cramps as well (I do have endo).
Lol, I think I am slightly dyslectic, because I looked over your post like three or four times, and I thought, how can she write " Don't mention it to your doc though".
I'm the same way. The first two days I bleed heavily (especially the second day) and have clotting, and then the remaining three days it's super light, barely anything.
My periods, from the time I started them at 12 until I got pregnant, followed about that pattern: Heavy bleeding, clotting, and debilitating cramps for 3 or 4 days and then two to three days of absolutely the smallest amount of blood. Was just normal for me.
Ditto for that. My cramps get SO BAD that my doctor recently prescribed me Naproxen (i think thats how you spell it) and i think its basically just extra strength midol or alieve or something like that. it helps though, because i can't be missing work for 3 days just for cramps.
Oh my gosh! Naproxen! The most amazing pain killer ever invented whenever Im on my period...:& That and chocolate.
My periods are like that 2 days heavy bleeding and cramping, and blood clots, then three days that are so light, it's barely there.
The only weird thing about my periods in comparison to most everyone else who's posted is the cramps are never all that bad. I've never had cramps keep me in bed or anything. I've had some that made me gasp (they're like...random contractions, I guess you could say) and make my boyfriend look weird at me and apparently all day yesterday I kept making weird faces because he kept doing his sympathetic face and saying, "What, sweetie?" in that really sweet concerned voice. Ah...the cramps are worth that...lol.
if you take it regularly, you will develop a tolerance for anaprox/naproxen/alleve and it will stop working. Pain is not a normal part of being a woman, it is your body's way of telling you something is wrong. I know you have all heard me say this before, but endo usually gets worse with time and if you ever want to have babies, it might make that impossible if you don't get it taken care of first.
it really is.. i took that for a few months and wow.... but i wasnt "allowed" to stay on it long because of how it can make your stomach bleed
this does remind me of the thread i just made today and i hope people do reply i kept seeing over and over here people saying "but that's my normal period" if some of these similar things that ive been through were my "normal period", id kill myself. not normal.
