Saturday, 21 November 2009
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New Help For Women With Problem Periods
It used to be that if you had very heavy periods, your doctor would recommend that you go on the pill or some other form of hormonal birth control to help decrease your symptoms. While birth control can be an effective solution, it carries with it a whole host of dangerous side effects, like blood clots and strokes.
Now, the FDA has approved a new, non-hormonal treatment for heavy periods!
Lysteda helps decrease bleeding by acting on a protein that helps blood to clot. It may be a great alternative for women who can't or don't want to take hormone-based pills.
Would you try this new medication - one that would clot your period?
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first i would encourage all women with period problems to try everything that is natural first... like eating right, exercising, drinking plenty of water, etc. don't just jump to a prescription/medicine for instant healing.
of course, if you have tried all of the natural things then i am not telling you to not use medications that can help you.
I tried birth control once, I became depressed and experienced massive mood swings, I got chest pain/tenderness, I felt sick and I gained 5 pounds.
I don't think I'd try some new medicine that is claimed to have less side effects, I don't trust it.
Clotting your period?? I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks that sounds like a really bad idea..? What happens 6 months down the line when you've got 6 months of period blood clotted up in your uterus?
I'd need more information in it, but it sounds dangerous.
@RuftyRoo@xanga - It's normal to have clotting menstrual blood - not harmful at all. It still passes because you're shedding lining, not just simply bleeding.
This sounds relevant to my interests, but in reality, I just want to get rid of my uterus altogether. Too bad I'm too broke and too young. FML.
I'd want to know the ingredients first.
That doesn't really sounds too productive to me..
Thanks for the info. Sounds kinda dangerous though?
@whitetrashpoet@xanga - Uh-huh, hmm, I know that, but if the whole point of the drug is that it acts as a clotting agent, then wouldn't it make the blood stickier and therefore a whole lot more likely to 'stick' in places where it really shouldn't? Like @AmistadBaby@xanga - says I'd need more information on exactly how that works. As the author suggests, the word 'thrombosis' springs to mind also..
No, I wouldn't try it.
@iiinfinitesimal@xanga - Agreed, 100%. People are far too quick to jump on the first pill bandwagon they find nowadays for a quick fix.
I just got prescribed the pill for cramps... I wonder if that would have been a better option. But being on the pill is a great excuse to stop smoking, which is good for me anyway, so I will probably just chill with this solution for a while.
I'd be too afraid that I would experience some really bad side effect..
@odviously@xanga - lol, oh, there aren't reasons enough to stop smoking so you need an excuse?
I don't have a problem with heavy periods per se, but rather the horrible, horrible cramps that teach me what it's like to die a painful death.
@XxFireXboltxX@xanga - agreed.
i have been having major problems with my period; they come and go at random times and are very painful while they last. but i don't want to go to the gynecologist, because the first thing they want to do is throw birth control at everything. if there is a non-hormonal solution for that, i'm all for it.
Boo. I have a blood disorder. Couldn't if I wanted to. :(
@EuropeBrazil@lovelyish - I enjoy smoking, and I am not one to really care that much about the health risks. I live life on the edge. haha.
My ovaries don't even work. I have take pills to make my period come ._.
No, since it's heavy because I have a blood-clotting disorder.
I have heavy periods. But it is ususally in the first or second day which is the worst, but after that, it isn't so bad. It is not really the blood flow that bothers me, it is the cramping. I would like to try birth control pills to ease the cramps (and possibly my acne!), but I don't like that it messes with my hormones. And the Lysteda thing doesn't do much for the cramping, just the blood, so I won't try that.
@breaking_expectations@xanga - I'm completely there with you. The depression bit was the worst. I'm totally leery of all meds that aren't supplements like vitamins/fish oil pills.
sounds like this would increase your chances of blood clots outside of your body, and they can be deadly, so if i were a woman i would pass.
....It says the FDA approved it?? I assume it's gone through human trials..My little sister's last like two weeks and they're verrry heavy :( I hope this will make things a little less intense for her..