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Why do some women have heavy and long menstrual flows?
The causes of prolonged and heavy bleeding are given below.
- In younger women heavy periods are most often due to a temporary hormone imbalance, which eventually corrects itself.
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- In the years close to the menopause, (45 years of age onwards) heavy periods are usually a sign of hormone imbalance. However, the possibility of heavy periods being caused by an underlying disease increases with age.
The following conditions are associated with heavy periods:
- fibroids.
- endometriosis.
- pelvic inflammatory disease.
- polyps of the lining of the womb.
- the commonest cause is a condition called dysfunctional uterine bleeding (DUB). This refers to heavy bleeding with no apparent explanation.
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