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    Default When you don't bleed enough..

    My friends think I'm bizarre for complaining about this, but I just feel like something isn't quite right.

    I've been on the pill for 4 years now, because my period pain used to be so bad, I couldn't get out of bed. I tried going off the pill once, but the period pain hit me during a class and my friends had to carry me to the bathroom because I couldn't walk to it. I'd get super, super heavy periods - I was soaking through maternity pads, and they'd last a week and a half and I'd get them every 2 weeks.

    So I went on the pill, and everything was just fine. I have this thing though where I need to have a period at least every 6 weeks or I start to feel weird, even though I know some girls skip months at a time. My periods are pretty much pain free and whilst I think I still bleed more than an average girl, it was a dramatic reduction and manageable.

    This time...I really felt like I needed to have a period - I don't know what it was, but I just felt the need to have it. And at first it appeared like I was right - instead of my periods starting after the 3rd sugar pill, they started on the first...but then...there's been nothing. There was one medium sized clot, and that's it, the rest has been spotting...and it's been 5 weeks since my last one. I go back on the active pill in 2 days, so normally my period would be just about over by now, but I don't feel like I've bled enough - I feel like there's still lining in there waiting to get out but nothing's happening, and it's making me feel strange and irritable.

    My friends are telling me that it's so abnormal that I'm complaining about not bleeding enough, but I feel uncomfortable! Does anyone else experience this? I feel like I'm going to continue to feel gross until I bleed! I don't know how to help it along? If I even can?! Urgh I'm so weird.
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    Default Re: When you don't bleed enough..

    Okay.
    If you are having a medical problem GO TO THE DOCTOR. I mean - geez. If you feel funny in your uterus there are a million things happening in there.
    I can tell you - when you go on the continuous pill your body does not (normally) just store up blood in your uterus until you take the placebo and then release it. Because your body is not expecting to ovulate the blood lining doesn't form in the first place. I know this sounds like 7th grade health, but it seems like you think your uterus is filling up with blood from the periods you are not having. It isn't. If the lining has formed, it will bleed out whether you are on the hormone or not. The pill doesn't seal your cervix up so that blood cannot escape the uterus.
    If you are bleeding "funny" it could be a number of reasons, including a spontaneously aborted pregnancy (depending on how careful you are; if you take the pills and the placebos randomly because of "feelings" rather than as perscribed I suspect accidents could happen); it could be a vitamin or protein issue; it could have something to do with ovarian cysts (which I would have examined if your periods are that uncomfortable. That is not normal). It could just be part of the normal "shower" that menstuating functions as - apparently menstrual blood has a low clotting agent in order to run through all your "plumbing" and give it a good cleaning; a lot of what seem like clots are just mucusy gunk soaked in blood.
    Again medical problems = doctor.
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    I think you should go to a your gyno and talk to him/her about this!
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    Default Re: When you don't bleed enough..

    ^That's what I'm thinking. Everyone responds differently to different types of birth control.
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    Default Re: When you don't bleed enough..

    OMG!
    Ive had the same problem. been on the pill for awhile, and now my periods are really light, and only last 1-2 days, not the usual 4 days, with 2 heavy.
    Its saved on napkins tho, I barely spot for the 1-2 days, so just need panty liners.

    And no, Im not pregnant,(much to my father in laws disapointment) as Im tested regularly.
    My doc didnt think it was too serious, but Im getting a second opinion.

    Let me know how you go sweetie!

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    Default Re: When you don't bleed enough..

    hi
    im sure you can do more research on the web but on a health radio show today (holistic health) they mentioned fibroids and periods
    The dr. on the show believes heavy periods are hermorages (spelling?) and that the lining that comes out during your period should be clear and only a couple days.. heavy periods seem the norm because "everyone" has them but she says its because we are all unhealthy diet ect.. blah blah
    any worries and you should go see a dr. you trust.. but this is worth at least digging into i think.. my periods now that im vegetarian and TRY to eat better are only about 3-4 days maybe one heavy day compared to the 7 heavy ones when I was a teenager.. so maybe diet does affect it

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    Default Re: When you don't bleed enough..

    Read the book Woman, Heal Thyself. It's about using accupressure to regulate your periods.



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    Default Re: When you don't bleed enough..

    Yeah it's not that I feel like...in pain or anything - i actually had seen a doctor but her solution was "ummm well...how about we try another pill?" not something i really want to dive into unless it's absolutely necessary - and well actually, the lining does form when you're on the pill, but because the body is tricked into thinking it's pregnant, it doesn't shed. That's why when you go on the sugar pill, you discharge the lining. It's not that I think it's continuously filling up, but I just feel like it hasn't completely discharged. I can go into all the details and even how we make the pill, but that's not the point. It's more like...mentally freaking me out. I dunno, maybe it's just because I do so much cardio now, even though I still maintain a regular bodyfat amount.

    I guess I'll just go get a second opinion, because now it's been 7 days of sugar pills, and I'm still incredibly bloated, and randomnly spotting.

    And no, not pregnant. I always use condoms + pills. There are too many other things I can catch other than babies
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    Default Re: When you don't bleed enough..

    i always thought that for girls with heaps of pain/heavy bleeding, the point of the pill was to alleviate that. if that is what's happening... ie. it's not hurting and it's lighter, sounds to me like the pill is doing it's job.

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