Abnormal Vaginal Bleeding
Vaginal bleeding is a natural occurrence among women. Women menstruate every month where they experience vaginal bleeding for a few days. Some women menstruate more heavily than others, but this doesn’t necessarily signal a problem and may still be considered normal.
How to Identify Abnormal Vaginal Bleeding
You can tell if vaginal bleeding is normal or not based on the time of the month when the vaginal bleeding occurs and on how much the bleeding is.
If you’re in the premenopause stage, check for the following to determine if you’re experiencing abnormal vaginal bleeding:
* Bleeding that occurs outside your menstruation
* Abnormally heavy bleeding during menstruation
* Menstruating for a week or more
* Anemia caused by bleeding
* Genital tract bleeding that’s induced by conditions such as infection of the uterine tissue, endometrial hyperplasia, and endometrial prolyps among others uterine tissue problems
* Fibroid tumors
* Cancer of the uterus
* Cervical cancer
* Obesity
* Polycystic Ovaries
Among premenopausal women, those that are pregnant are prone to abnormal vaginal bleeding, especially if a miscarriage occurs, the pregnancy is ectopic (in the tubes), or the woman has just given birth. Abnormal vaginal bleeding can also be experienced if the placenta is torn from the uterine wall or if it overlies the cervix.
Women who have not had menstruation for at least a year should be more watchful of abnormal vaginal bleeding symptoms, as the bleeding may be caused by serious medical conditions such as the following:
* endometrial hyperplasia
* cervical or endometrial polyps
* endometrial cancer
* vaginitis
* unopposed estrogen
How to Identify Abnormal Vaginal Bleeding
Ensure that you are promptly checked by your doctor if you think you’re experiencing abnormal vaginal bleeding. However, you should be able to provide sufficient information about your menstrual history in order to get an accurate diagnosis.
To evaluate your abnormal vaginal bleeding symptoms, your doctor will look into the following:
Pregnancy
Some women may not be aware that they are pregnant. Vaginal bleeding can occur during the early stages of pregnancy.
Bleeding pattern
You may be experiencing abnormal vaginal bleeding if your menstruation occurs at irregular periods; if the bleeding is too much or too little; or if the bleeding occurs over very short or very long durations.
Ovulation
Irregular ovulation in a woman can cause abnormal vaginal bleeding when it causes the woman’s progesterone levels to dip at abnormally low levels during the second half of her menstrual cycle or when it causes irregular menstruation that lasts for abnormally long periods of time after not menstruating for months. This type of abnormal vaginal bleeding is most likely to occur in women who suffer from obesity or polycystic ovarian syndrome.
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