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Doctor: are your periods heavy?
I’ve always found this question difficult to answer
What is ‘heavy’?
Pressumably the doctor means the volume and rate of blood-flow from my womb. But what is ‘heavy’ as opposed to ‘normal’ or ‘light’? How can I judge the fit between my experience and the medical classification?
I’ve never actually tried to systematically compare the rate of blood-flow from my body with that of one other woman let-alone with a sufficiently large number of women to get a sense of what ‘normal’ blood flow is and how my experience compares to that. When asked this question before, I’d answered with an honestly unhelpful - ‘I don’t know‘
This time I whipped out an unused sanitary towel:
I fill one of these every 2 hours during the first day, then one of these every 4 hours on the following day and every 6 hours on the 3rd day. If that’s a heavy period, then I have heavy periods
Is that a heavy period?
The doctor looked expressionless, he igored my question. I didn’t find out if I have heavy periods, but at least I’ve found an easier way to convey the actual flow rate
December 5th, 2011
…sounds about normal….
Sx
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