WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for September, 2000: Re: abnormal heavy bleeding

Re: abnormal heavy bleeding

From: R. Daniel Braun, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 21 Sep 2000 19:52:41 -0500 (CDT)

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At Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Devon wrote: >
>I'm 20years old and I have two children, the last one being born over
>8mos ago. My periods have always been very regular
>up until the last three. The last one lasted 3weeks and was very heavy.
>I went to the hospital and they did a bunch of blood work, cervical exam
>and tested for infections, and came back saying everything was fine. Now
>the period I'm currently having is worse than the last one. It is so
>heavy,
>I'm missing school, I'm very tired and worn out, and brusing easily as
>usual. I have had problems before with low platelet counts and anemia
>but when I went to the hospital last month they said my blood work was
>fine. I know my body and I know something is wrong. This is not normal
>for me and it is affecting my life drastically. I think that the
>hospital should have done an ultrasound, but I don't have insurance so I
>think that is why they just did the basics.
>If I don't have an STD or an infection and I'm not having a miscarriage
>than what can it be? Please help!!!

It could be just skipping ovulating on an irregular basis. In fact this would be most likely. This is best treated by oral contraceptives. Depo-provera would be another thing that could cause this. You didn't say what the method of contraception is.

RDB

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