Heavy Menstrual Bleeding – Menorrhagia Causes

Menorrhagia cause - Women does, from time to time, experience what the feel is exceptional heavy bleeding during your menstrual period. Luckily, most commonly what you think is abnormal uterine bleeding is not exaggerated enough to be diagnosed as menorrhagia. How do you know when the bleeding during your period is normal weight?

The easiest way to find out if you are experiencing menorrhagia is to record how often you need to change pads or tampons. If your time is quite heavy need a change more frequently than every hour or two, or if you have a period that lasted more than a full week, you may experience menorrhagia.

A hormone imbalances when teens or menopause are the most common cause of heavy menstrual bleeding. Over the teens after the first period, and for the several years prior to menopause when menstruating stops, fluctuated levels of the hormone that frequently resulted excessive bleeding during our periods. It’s often possible to treat menorrhagia caused by hormonal imbalances with birth control pill or hormones fibroid tumors.

Uterine is another very common cause of exaggerated menstruation. It is important to understand that fibroid tumors are usually benign (non-cancerous) tumor that commonly occurs in the uterus of women during the thirties or forties. While the causes of uterine fibroid tumors is unclear, it is clear that they are estrogen-dependent. Some operations are available for treating fibroid tumors of the uterus including myomectomy, endometrial ablation, uterine artery embalization, and uterine balloon therapy, and hysterectomy.

Non-surgical treatment for fibroid tumors include GnRH agonists, oral contraceptives, androgens, RU486 (abortion pill), and gestrinone. Some women find natural progesterone to be effective treatment for uterine fibroid tumors. Often, when symptoms are not severe or troublesome, “wait and see” approach is taken. Once menopause occurs, the tumors usually shrink and disappear without treatment.