Heavy periods or menorrhagia can happen to some women. This abnormality can lead to anemia or heavy losses of blood. Too much loss of blood needs medical attention at once. Birth control pills are found to be effective in preventing heavy periods.
Birth control pills can help regulate hormonal imbalance. Usually a person who has menorrhagia is found out to have hormonal imbalances. Some that can cause heavy periods are cancer, pregnancy complications, polyps, ovarian abnormalities, and IUDs.
If you are prone to heavy bleeding you will need to visit your doctor. You will need to relate what you have been taking or using that might be linked or can cause menorrhagia. Your doctor will probably give you some tests.
There is a possibility that you will need to undergo sonohysterogram, dilation, or Curettage. This will help to cross out other menstrual disorders. Once or a few times, it was found out that heavy menstrual bleeding is the cause. If this happens, one needs to remove or have it removed immediately. Then one can use other birth control devices to lessen the risk of pregnancy.
If one has been found out to have hormonal imbalance, then your doctor will probably prescribe you with oral contraceptive pills. With these oral pills, another drug will be prescribed to relieve painful menstrual cramps. Your doctor will probably prescribe you with NSAID’s (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs).
Aside from oral contraceptives your doctor might also recommend using progestin pills. Of course these oral pills do have certain side effects. If this happens then one should go directly to heir doctor. He or she ill either lessen your dosage or prescribe you another pill that you can take. Taking of iron supplements can also help prevent you from being anemic.
If heavy periods still occur, then one can look for other alternatives. Such alternatives can be dilation, curettage, endometrial ablation, hysteroscopy, hysterectomy, and endometrial, resection.
Birth control pills can only be taken to help regulate your hormonal imbalance. If this will not work then the said operations mentioned above can be the only answer. One can also use other contraceptive devices to help lessen the possibility of menorrhagia.
ALWAYS consult your doctor for abnormal heavy bleeding!
