What to do when your period is too heavy

Women have choices, they can try to avoid periods all together or try to lighten them up. There are many ways to lighten one's period. one way is to try an old fashioned regimen called cyclic progesterone. It may even work if you are having a heavy period and you just need it to stop. Of course, take one quick second to make sure you were not pregnant. That's a first with anyone having sex in the right age groups, be safe, take a test! You can start taking some progesterone now. It comes in many forms. But if you think ahead you can be proactive and do something to control your periods. There was a new study looking at the medicated IUD compared to taking oral progesterone per month, and the IUD beat out taking monthly progesterone.. This was a very important study and the researchers lead by Kaunitz AM, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida, USA performed a Level I type of study, in other words performing the trial prospectively in a very controlled fashioned. They looked at women who bled heavily, meaning they loose menstrual blood loss 80 mL or more per cycle, and they were then randomly assigned to six cycles of treatment with either levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system (Mirena type in the USA) or oral medroxyprogesterone acetate (10 mg daily for 10 days beginning on day 16 of each cycle, for most US women that is taking Provera). And they tried to get women to loose half as much blood as they usually lost in their normal period., and the other thing they looked at was what percent of women could actually get their blood lost to a level that would be considered normal for all women. and the proportion of women with successful treatment (defined as menstrual blood loss less than 80 mL) Of over 800 women studied, the proportion of women with successful treatment was significantly higher for the levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system ...over 80% vs only about a 5th of the progesterone treated women.. So get your gyno to check with your insurance company as it just might be that this heavy period could be your last heavy period. And that is doing something about it!

For more information on this study go to: CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov, www.clinicaltrials.gov, NCT00360490.

Passing Your Uterine Lining, Menstrual Period Norms

Decidual Cast Periods can be fairly easy, passing some tissue at a time, or off can come the whole lining in one piece called a decidual cast. Generally the lining of the uterus is only 6-8 mm thick at the time of the menstrual period, and it is shed gradually, a few cells at a time. The decidual cast is when the entire lining passes spontaneously. It's not uncommon, but it usually both uncomfortable, and alarming to some. But us women are designed to have some sort of periods Or Not? We have to pass tissue each month. Or Not? Are they good for us? Or Not? Do we want them? Or Not? Is this something that is individual? Or Not? It's a complex topic that I will be discussing a lot over my time in this blog. So lets start with basics: How much do we bleed and what are we loosing, and just what was this that the patient passed? And another basic: track your periods, and the Women's Health Practice site http://www.womenshealthpractice.com/media/pdf/menstrual_chart.pdf you

Endocervial polyps

2 cm Endometrial Polyp After Removal Polyps in the cervix are almost never cancerous, but can bleed or get infected and should be removed. The are not directly related to an endometrial or uterine polyp (which is a precancerous condition), but your gyno may want to make sure these two conditions do not co-exist.

Irregular Periods can Be the Sign of Other Medical Conditions

Heavy menstrual Bleeding Menstrual Period Norms The menstrual period's normal physiologic function to shed the lining and then prepare the lining for a pregnancy. Thus a sample of the lining under the microsope looks like it has glands within tissue. It’s hard to know if this is a heavy period, or one that is really so heavy that you need treatment without really checking completely with your gyno! Experts have used a number of definitions to determine if the period you are having is too heavy. Your perception is important. The actual amount of blood lost is important, but that can be determined by collecting each pad and weighing them before and after blood collection. So gynos have struggled with how to determine the formal definition of heavy bleeding. A basic check up, and a basic blood count, is not going to really make your version of heavy periods fit the typical “FDA” approved definition because that is defined by the exact amount of blood lost, which is los

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