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    May 14, 2009, 10:26 PM
    Heavy Bleeding ?
    So I've been on and off birth control now for about 5 years. I just started up on this generic brand of ortho tri cyclen lo (Tri sprintec tab 28).

    I spotted for about a week, and at the time I figured that this was just my period... very light. Then this past Monday I started my period. All is good and well with that, but today (Thursday) when I woke up I had soaked through a super absorbency (which has NEVER happened to me before). It had gotten so bad that I needed to shower. I go to work around 4pm... put a fresh tampon in right before, and right around 5pm I go to the bathroom. I realize that I had just soaked through a regular tampon. I was soaking though them every hour. I also had more frequent clotting, one of which was semi-large, but more than normal to say the least.

    I get home from work and change my tampon again, and shower again, and since then my bleeding has been what seems to be more normal. I've only been out of work for 3 hours, and haven't gone through a tampon yet, which is good.

    I know that when you start taking a new kind of birth control this can happen because its your body getting used to the hormones, but I've never experienced this before, so I was naturally worried.

    Does this sound like normal body adjustments for birth control?
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    May 14, 2009, 10:47 PM

    Heavy menstrual bleeding (menorrhagia) is a common problem for women. The worst cases of excessive menstrual bleeding can cause severe anemia and even require blood transfusions. Many women with milder forms needlessly allow their lives to be controlled by heavy menstrual bleeding because they are not aware of medical advances that often allow quick and easy treatment.

    If it goes on for more than a few days, or at the most a week (a normal term period) then go to the doctor.


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    Sorry J_9 I forgot :D

    http://www.heavybleeding.com/
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    May 15, 2009, 12:07 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by jenniepepsi View Post
    Heavy menstrual bleeding (menorrhagia) is a common problem for women. The worst cases of excessive menstrual bleeding can cause severe anemia and even require blood transfusions. Many women with milder forms needlessly allow their lives to be controlled by heavy menstrual bleeding because they are not aware of medical advances that often allow quick and easy treatment.

    If it goes on for more than a few days, or at the most a week (a normal term period) then go to the doctor.
    Jennie, please quote your source for this thread. ;)
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    May 15, 2009, 12:17 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by jenniepepsi View Post
    Heavy menstrual bleeding (menorrhagia) is a common problem for women. The worst cases of excessive menstrual bleeding can cause severe anemia and even require blood transfusions. Many women with milder forms needlessly allow their lives to be controlled by heavy menstrual bleeding because they are not aware of medical advances that often allow quick and easy treatment.

    If it goes on for more than a few days, or at the most a week (a normal term period) then go to the doctor.


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    sorry J_9 i forgot :D

    All About Heavy Menstrual Periods and Endometrial Ablation
    Thanks Jennie... mucho better!! :D
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