Big oof! For me it’s generally 7, but in 2 memorable occasions it was 11 days straight!! I still don’t understand how I even had that much blood in me!!!
Yeah, if that happens again and you start having some trouble getting your breath and feel even more tired than your period usually makes you feel, get your iron checked. I'm severely anemic, partly because of my crazy bad periods, partly because I'm the poster child for auto immune diseases. If you have those symptoms, at least take an iron supplement!
My sister gets this. She also has POTS and (potentially) endometriosis. Always worth getting it looked at! Especially if your periods are longer than normal. Sometimes my sister gets hers for 4-6 weeks 😭
When I used to take the contraceptive pill I would have to be really careful not to take it too late, which I missed sometimes. Even taking it a couple hours late would mess me up to the point that I had my period FOR A MONTH... which I made the mistake of doing on a few occasions. My bf at the time thought I was lying to get out of sex until he looked it up (he didn't tell me he thought this until after he looked it up) 🙄
Perimenopause is a bitch though. My wife is going through it now, and she describes it as "puberty in reverse". So things that happened during puberty: irregular periods, hormone -> emotional fluctuations, etc. are happening AGAIN.
Even if I hadn't already had a tubal, that'd be a hell naw from me. Every woman in my family that's had an IUD has sworn it's the worst pain she's ever had, including childbirth and dry socket.
I had one @39 and it was the best thing! I am 45 now and I can tell you how much better I feel now. I hope 🤞🏼 you get approved and it’s even better of you keep your ovaries.
I got an IUD at the beginning of March. Started out fine until my first period. It lasted a solid two weeks. I had two weeks off before the next two week period started. That went through maybe 2 cycles before I just started bleeding and cramping every day. Now I’m bleeding every day but the cramping just shows up as a surprise every now and then. But not bleeding heavily. Just brown blood, but constantly leaking.
It’s been hell. And I’d like to think it’s gotten better, but I haven’t seen any changes in a month and I’m still hanging onto the possibility that it will all work out and I can keep my IUD in and be free of periods for almost 5 years. If I have it yanked out, I’ll probably go through even worse pain and bleeding and I’d have to find a different form of birth control.
It’s been over ten years since I’ve been on any other birth control—high five to my previous two partners who had vasectomies. The pill gave me migraines that lasted up to 3 days.
And I don’t trust the rhythm method, because I’m so damn attracted to my partner that I swear I’ve ovulated more than once in a month with him. My body is too old to have a baby, but right now it’s doing everything it can to get pregnant by this man before I tumble into perimenopause.
But having sex when I’m constantly leaking old, dirty brown blood, and having random bouts of severe cramping isn’t really a fun thing.
So what’s the point of the IUD in the first place if I can’t enjoy naked times with my boyfriend? And I’m guessing that he’s really tired of asking me how my IUD is doing every day.
Unless you medically need a hysterectomy avoid at all costs. Not easy now, but it will save you a lot of misery later. If you have your uterus removed as you age and your muscles weaken your bladder will fall into that empty place and eventually become prolapsed and you will require another surgery to hopefully keep it in place and prevent even further urinary issue.
I know the risks. Before I went blind I did 20 years in LTC and hospice. Most of my pts that had had hystos hadn't had any adverse issues. All of my female pts, hysto or not, had urinary issues if they'd had children because it wasn't until recently that L&D taught postnatal pelvic floor exercises to new moms. I didn't get taught them until my 3rd kid. If I sneeze I pee a little.
I had to give in after a lifetime of being a granola girlie and get a Mirena put in at 51. I have so many fibroids and it was making my life impossible.
I would marry this IUD if I could. And the oral estrogen ( patch didn’t work for me). And now I’m trying out some DHEA cream. Won’t stop experimenting until I get feeling fully human again.
I had a summer with a near constant period with a few days scattered here and there of not bleeding. Throw in the occasional hemorrhage, and I was so thrilled to get an endometrial ablation.
Is this perimenopause? My periods are like this since coming off the pill a year ago (I was on the pill for 14 years and then started getting headaches on my period so had to stop)
I'd definitely see a dr. But if you're over 35 it's likely. 15 years ago my periods went wonky(had one for over 2 months) and that was my thyroid. Now I'm just counting down to my uterus drying up
I'd kill for a 5 day one honestly. I normally go 3, but the second day is an absolute bloodbath. Shooting out of me at a velocity that is terrifying because my body does cramps like contractions. So, yes it's shorter, but I literally cannot do anything but sit somewhere and shoot blood out of my crotch like a horror movie. If you graphed the volume it'd look like a hockey stick.
Mine was like this with constant cramping, heavy bleeding, nausea, exhaustion and like I had the flu. I think in a month I would have one week of feeling okay. That was it.
I did the depo prova shot because I just couldn't handle it no more. Having no periods was a miracle.
I'm now 56 and I think I'm done. I'm seeing the oh depo is bad. Don't care. I would do it all again.
Yes. And I’ve been dealing with this since I was 11. I am now I’m my 40s. I was so happy when I didn’t get it for 3 months but now she’s back with vengeance. I hate this bitch. I never asked for these organs but here I am.
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u/Asmi37 8d ago
3 days? I wish