heavy periods dizziness

I am 53 years old. I have always had heavy periods, but lately my periods have lasted a long time, sometimes two weeks or more, and they become very heavy with lots of clotting. I have to wear two super plus tampons at a time and a pantiliner because they always leak. I hate it! What should I do? What can be done to make this more tolerable or stop altogether?

Do you have heavy flow/ a lot of blood loss? Sometimes, women can become anemic from excessive blood loss during heavy periods. This happens to me sometimes and I've actually briefly passed out from it. I try to increase my iron intake, especially before and around the beginning of my period. I try to eat more beef, spinach, dried apricots, all foods with high iron content. There are also some iron-fortified cereals out there.

But now, my periods are 7 days long. The first 36-48 hours HEAVY BLEEDING! I saturate a pad every hour. Everytime I go to urine, blood gushes too, then I feel so lightheaded during these times. the rest of the days taper off. But on the 4th day, it gets heavy again for a few hours and then completely tapers off until day 7. Im anemic, dont know how low my actual iron count is. But I know I walk around feeling like im gonna damn near pass out sometimes.

Like another comment said, birth control can help with long or heavy periods. It has been prescribed by many doctors for those specific reasons.

my prom is tomorrow and my periods are really heavy is there anything i can do to slow it down.

The past few months when I've had my period I get extremely light headed, dizzy, and nauseas during the first few days of my period. I've never fainted and I am on birth control so my periods aren't that heavy but the dizziness is the worst part. Would anyone know what might be causing this?

However the first day of my period I fainted and have continued to feel very dizzy. When feeling hot the dizziness tends to get worse. My periods are usually quite heavy, however I have never fainted before. My blood pressure is usually normal to low. My doctor said it could be a combination of the medication and heavy periods.

From personal experience, I had the same fainting and heavy periods as a teen. I had anemia which caused the fainting and heavy bleeding. She definitely needs blood work. Putting her on birth control to lessen the periods and a good multivitamin with iron would benefit her greatly. Good luck and I wish her the best. I sympathize with her!!!!

Last June13, I had my weird period. It started with brown spots until it became a bit heavy and back to normal flow until it ended June 26. I lasted like 14 days. Actually it just ended because I took mefenamic to stop the bleeding because it freaks me out to know that I am having my period about 2 weeks. But what was more freaking out is when I started spotting July 1, 5 days after my period ended. I had intercourse on June 30.

I decided to conceive after this jan and me and my partner started trying for a baby the next day my periods got over which was 26 Jan. After 14 days i got my periods again, which has happened first time with me. That period was lighter than my regular periods and also the blood color was light pink, also that time I only experienced some mild cramping though normally I get heavy cramps during my periods. The bleeding lasted only for 2 days though my regular menstrual cycle lasts for 7 days.

I decided to conceive after this jan and me and my partner started trying for a baby the next day my periods got over which was 26 Jan. After 14 days i got my periods again, which has happened first time with me. That period was lighter than my regular periods and also the blood color was light pink, also that time I only experienced some mild cramping though normally I get heavy cramps during my periods. The bleeding lasted only for 2 days though my regular menstrual cycle lasts for 7 days.

All my symptoms started from Sep 2010 and its been progressing every day from Bad to worse. It started with a Dizziness that was there whole day(a feeling of unsteadiness).I was treated prescribed Iron tablets(as my iron reserve was low but not anemic) with no effect.Then it progressed to slight pain under the cheeks but my GP refused to treat me for Sinus as i was not having cold.My periods got irregular(it did not come for 2 months and when it did it did not stop for 1 month!).

I had a c section 20 mos ago. since then my periods have been really heavy and there is always a day I seem to gush blood. Well- my period came a week early this month and last night I seemed to have passed a lot of blood- that seemed really red. Now that I am up it does not seem to be flowing so strong. I don't have any pain- slight cramping. I am not sure whether I should go to the ER or not- hate to go if it is just my period! Just seems odd there was so, so much.

I have been having irregular periods and have been put on the pill. I forgot a couple days and my period began again, I went back on the pill and caught up on the days missed but now I haven't been feeling the greatest. I have my period of a medium to heavy flow, I have clotting, I get dizzy and have muscle spasms along with the regular bloating and abdominal pain. All of my friends and coworkers have been telling me my face looks pale. I feel really weak and almost twitchy.

The frustration with 125mcg are the heart palps, appetite, heavy periods, and I forgot to mention infrequent dizziness. The 112 seems more appealling. thank you.

dont sweat it, mine did the same thing. did you recently start having periods? because almost everybody is irregular when you first start. its normal. if you notice that after a while its still not right then you should seek a doctors advice.

Interesting - I've been experiencing similar symptoms quite a bit lately, and I have TM and 'probable' MS. My head feels heavy - it's a great way to describe it. And the dizziness is not like you've been spinning around and stopped and can't catch your balance, it's just feeling. . like a half a beat off. I just caught myself walking in to work, feeling as though I was walking in a crooked line. I have a neruo appt tomorrow and planned on asking about it.

I recently began iron supplements as I have heavy periods .What could be the cause for these results and are they horrible. I had dizziness and metallic taste before beginning iron pills,both have subsided. Hemoglobin was 10.0 in February so its improving but RDW is worse was 15.5 now its 18.

My periods have been heavy but this months period was extremely light and the past two weeks ive had diarrhea, nausea, headaches, dizziness, seem to be eating more, gassy and a dry throat. Any suggestion on what it could be? Yes i do have unprotected sex but he had never came in me. I took a pregnacy test but it didnt take long for it to show the results but it was suspose to take three minutes but it took less than a minute and came out negative so i think i did it wrong.

my girlfreind for the last year or so has had a variety of different symptoms i,e, fatigue,weight loss,heavy and irreguler periods,sleep problems,dizziness and pale skin,ive had numerous hiv tests myself all negative but she is scared of needles so is reluctant to get a blood test,there is something wrong for sure but dont know what,any ideas

It was very bright in color(un normal),and very heavy.(un normal) towards the end of my 7 day period it was still very heavy, I had major cramps I've never had and the color was still very bright! I realized the plan b could change my period so I calmed down. Finally day 7 and my period is going away and slowly turning to its correct ending color..but than I started experiencing lower back pains, cravings,headaches and dizziness..than 4 days later(feb.19th.

Exact same situation with light bleeding on and off and then heavy periods. So fatigued and anemic with all the bells and whistles. Had another ultrasound yesterday, I'm going to push for answers this time. Even with endo, this is not normal or acceptable.

I can see it being simply heavy periods... but A. I've always had unusually heavy periods, and B. I'm having pain in my right side from my Pelvic area up to my belly button - Nausea that started before my period and has not gone away - severe bloating that is unusual for me, especially on the strict diet I'm on - my periods becoming unusually irregular - These are all new symptoms in the last, say, 5 months.

I am 41 and have had very heavy periods for many years. I can go though a super tampon and a pad in an hour. I told my Dr an she wasn't concerned but I think it's making me very tired. Should I be worried?

25 year old get my period on time every month but for the past 2 months iv bled again 1 week after period ended this bleeding is heavy and dark red lasting between 3 to 5 days iv also got severe back pain I am not pregnant and had a smear test 6 months ago with normal results.

) periods can happen during pregnancy , as well as woman not noticing the signs that they were pregnant the whole time . But if the blood is red and semi on the heavy side it needs to be mentioned and looked at by a doctor hun .

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