Insanely heavy periods
Apologies that this post is TMI but I dont know what to do. I've got two daughters who are 2 and a half and nearly 10 months. I've always had really heavy periods since I started at 12, I'm now 29.
After my first daughter was born, I bled every day for 6 months, had a load of hospital tests, scans, blood tests, nothing was ever picked up. I'm incredibly anemic, my ferritin level recently was 6, I was put on iron tablets that are 210mg but they aren't working. I feel really weak, constantly exhausted, dizzy, no appetite and for heavy periods all I get given by the GP is tranexamic acid tablets which help to slow it down. The consultant also said this after my first daughter qas born.
The GP just doesn't care and said they aren't doing my bloods again until November. I can't go to A&E when I've 2 kids to look after and my partner works full time and none of our family live near us. Has anyone been through similar? What was the outcome?
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Not directly period related but after birth I had super low ferritin, not as low as yours though. I was offered iron drip which boosted it immediately. It was done privately, do not have nhs experience with it but can confirm it definitely worked for me. Went from 33 to 85 after 1 drip. I did have to stay hooked to it for an hour so logistically not sure how that would work for you. Maybe your partner or someone you trust could look after them for a bit? Sorry you're going through this
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Apologies that this post is TMI but I dont know what to do. I've got two daughters who are 2 and a half and nearly 10 months. I've always had really heavy periods since I started at 12, I'm now 29.
After my first daughter was born, I bled every day for 6 months, had a load of hospital tests, scans, blood tests, nothing was ever picked up. I'm incredibly anemic, my ferritin level recently was 6, I was put on iron tablets that are 210mg but they aren't working. I feel really weak, constantly exhausted, dizzy, no appetite and for heavy periods all I get given by the GP is tranexamic acid tablets which help to slow it down. The consultant also said this after my first daughter qas born.
The GP just doesn't care and said they aren't doing my bloods again until November. I can't go to A&E when I've 2 kids to look after and my partner works full time and none of our family live near us. Has anyone been through similar? What was the outcome?
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