Contact your regular medical care provider and request an appointment. If you don’t have a regular provider, you may want to look in the yellow pages for a gynecologist. He or she will probably want to run some tests to make sure that your excessive bleeding is not the result of a more serious condition, disease, or trauma (injury).
Up to 10% of women may experience excessive bleeding at one time or another. Periods of excessive vaginal bleeding may occur when estrogen and/or progesterone levels become out of whack for one reason or another. This can occur even when no disease or trauma is present.
Sometimes this is due to an anovulatory cycle. Anovulation occurs when a menstrual cycle occurs that does not result in the release of an egg from one of the ovaries. When a woman does not produce an egg, there is still stimulation of the uterus from the hormone estrogen. Progesterone, a very important hormone produced by a growing egg, is absent. Therefore, the lining of the uterus becomes unusually thick and enlarged which results in the abnormal vaginal bleeding. This is more likely to occur in adolescents and women approaching menopause.
It is very important to see a medical provider, especially if this continues. Please make an appointment as soon as possible just to make sure nothing more serious is happening.
Source: http://www.emedicinehealth.com/vaginal_bleeding/page2_em.htm
25. June 2012
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