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Treatment. Treatment for heavy menstrual bleeding is based on a number of factors. These include: Your overall health and medical history. The cause of the condition and how serious it is. How well you tolerate certain medicines or procedures. The chance that your periods will soon become less heavy. Your plans to have children.
Some women have menstrual bleeding between periods, or earlier or later in their cycles than expected. This type of bleeding is called abnormal uterine bleeding or irregular menstrual bleeding. With heavy menstrual bleeding, blood flow and cramping make it harder to do your usual activities.
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Menorrhagia is the medical term for menstrual periods with abnormally heavy or prolonged bleeding. Although heavy menstrual bleeding is a common concern, most women don’t experience blood loss severe enough to be defined as menorrhagia.
If you bleed heavily during your period, your doctor may tell you to take an iron supplement to prevent or help manage anemia. Sometimes, a person with anemia needs to receive blood from a donor, called a transfusion, due to blood loss.
Ask the Mayo Mom: Managing heavy menstrual cycles and demystifying treatment options. The menstrual cycles for adolescents vary significantly, including the age at which the first period begins. Frequency, length of period, and amount of bleeding also vary widely.
Your doctor might suggest one or more of the following treatments to increase your von Willebrand factor, strengthen blood clots or control heavy menstrual bleeding: Desmopressin. This medication is available as an injection (DDAVP).
Endometrial ablation is a treatment for very heavy menstrual blood loss. You might need an endometrial ablation if you have: Unusually heavy periods, sometimes defined as soaking a pad or tampon every two hours or less.
Your periods suddenly stop for more than 90 days — and you're not pregnant. Your periods become irregular after having been regular. You bleed for more than seven days. You bleed more heavily than usual or soak through more than one pad or tampon every hour or two. Your periods are less than 21 days or more than 35 days apart.
Medicines for uterine fibroids target hormones that control the menstrual cycle. They treat symptoms such as heavy menstrual bleeding and pelvic pressure. They don't get rid of fibroids, but they may shrink them. Medicines include: Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists.