I've always had very heavy periods, usually lasting 5-6 days, and made me very uncomfortable, horrible cramps, bloating, headaches, mood swings, etc. I've never gotten a period on the same time of month, sometimes it's 28 days between them sometimes it's 35, it's always different. A few months ago I had a period that was "normal" to me, well 2 weeks later I had even heavier bleeding, with dark clots that lasted 10 days, it had dark red blood & some light red blood. 3 weeks later I had another period. I keep spotting in between all of my periods, it's brown & black colored. Then my next period was heavier than usual, but lasting the same amount of time. I had a period 1 week ago, & 2 days ago I started bleeding light red blood again, now i'm currently spotting brown/black. Due to my periods being so heavy I always wear pads & change them often.
What does this mean? Is this normal? I'm scared that it might not be because noone i've talked to has issues like this.
Gail
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