Question about excessive bleeding, women’s health?
January 26, 2012 by admin
Filed under health care
So I take care of my friends as the knowledgeable one when it comes to health of all sorts. Recently I have come across a problem I can’t solve. My friend confronted me with this problem tonight. She started bleeding excessively and like, soaking through stuff. She’s known for being extremely irregular, something we joke about amongst girls, but this is a first for her. She says she has had no other symptoms, no pain, no mood swings, nothing at all. I can’t tell her to go to a doctor unless it’s emergency-worthy and she’s dying because… She has an extreme phobia of medical professionals. So, any info and help you can give us. Along with comforting words. I gave her iron pills. That’s all.
She’s not sexually active, and the whole doctor thing really won’t work. However, we are teenagers, if that helps.
Having a very heavy period like that is not uncommon. And periods all change from time to time anyways she just needs to rest and take it easy till it ends its all. If she was to be having a miscariage some woman do not get pain but just a lot of blood and others have a lot of pain. i just had one last month and its a whole different then a regular period and there is no way to mistake the two. The blood is real thin and runny, you bleed for about a week sometimes longer, and you have huge clots that come out that are not normal looking at all like regular period clots. As long as she feels its just like another period she should be fun but she really should get looked at just in case to be safe.
If she’s soaking through a pad or tampon in an hour, there really could be something wrong with her. Even with her phobia, if you could gently and supportively get her to go to the gyno, it sounds like she needs to be checked out.