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Heavy menstrual cycle š«
11 months postpartum and I'm rolling into my 5th month of menstruation (after 16 months without one).
Anyway, my cycle has been super duper heavy these past few months and I feel like I'm back in 5th grade learning how to upkeep myself all over again.
I'm 35 and I'm still waking up in a puddle of mess in my bed and changing underwear 2x a day because it gets everywhere. Tampons don't do squat for me and I'm wearing those heavy flow overnight pads during the day. Also changing twice the first 3 days of my period.
Geez š like wtf
My OB/GYN isn't much help I feel. Like I've had to message her twice in 3 months about it and she says it's perfectly normal..
I feel like I need a second opinion.
Anyone struggling with a heavy ass flow too during postpartum?
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Yes my period is a lot heavier than it used to be but I had my tubes out during my last csection and I read (after I had it done) that having your tubes out can cause heavier periods. I'm not sure if I would have done it if I'd known that before hand.
Totally normal. I gush for a day or 2 and then itās like Iāve never had one. Sometime I have cramps but itās usually just a flood. In the 90s, my mother had the same after she had twins. I remember her saying she would use a tampon and pad at the same time. She had the doctor give her birth controlā¦. Which was helpful for when she hit menopause.
This happened to me after my 4th baby, the only thing that fixed it was getting on birth control