Passing clots

I remember reading something a while back about women in peri-menopause
passing "chicken liver " clots and what a drag it is. This never happened to
me before, until today. I felt a period coming on for a few days w/ mild
cramping and very minimal spotting. It built up today until I started
getting significant cramps and heavy bleeding. I'm having to wear super
tampons and full pads at the same time, and w/ both of those, I'm having to
change the tampon every hour. It soaks through completely and soaks the pad,
my underwear, may clothes, and whatever I happen to be sitting on, etc. So
now I'm checking every hour, and changing the tampon, and sometimes changing
the pad. Have put on new underwear about 4x now, and have been running
laundry the last few hours. But the grossest thing is, when I check the
tampon, huge, huge chunks of bloody clots are coming out. Chicken livers is
just how looks--great description! Ugh!

I can't believe it. The mass of it is astounding. Sorry to be so gross, but
I figure I can talk candidly here. What causes this, and is it anything to
worry about?

Kim
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HotFlashesColdTears wrote:
> I remember reading something a while back about women in peri-menopause
> passing "chicken liver " clots and what a drag it is. This never happened to
> me before, until today. I felt a period coming on for a few days w/ mild
> cramping and very minimal spotting. It built up today until I started
> getting significant cramps and heavy bleeding. I'm having to wear super
> tampons and full pads at the same time, and w/ both of those, I'm having to
> change the tampon every hour. It soaks through completely and soaks the pad,
> my underwear, may clothes, and whatever I happen to be sitting on, etc. So
> now I'm checking every hour, and changing the tampon, and sometimes changing
> the pad. Have put on new underwear about 4x now, and have been running
> laundry the last few hours. But the grossest thing is, when I check the
> tampon, huge, huge chunks of bloody clots are coming out. Chicken livers is
> just how looks--great description! Ugh!
>
> I can't believe it. The mass of it is astounding. Sorry to be so gross, but
> I figure I can talk candidly here. What causes this, and is it anything to
> worry about?
>
> Kim
> (add sbc before global to reply)

Sad to say, it's most likely normal.

Three things you can to, not to slow the bleeding, but to manage it:

1. Get some adult diapers (poise, depends). Gross idea, I know,
but it beats scrubbing the stains out of your clothes and
upholstery nad bedding. With any luck, you'll only need them for
a day or two. And if the problem develops on future periods,
you'll have them on hand.

2. Tie two tampons together.

3. Stop in at Whines and Woeses - lots of sympathy is there to
be had.

FurPaw

--
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched,
every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

To reply, unleash the dogs.

"HotFlashesColdTears" <kimstar2856@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I remember reading something a while back about women in peri-menopause
>passing "chicken liver " clots and what a drag it is. This never happened
>to me before, until today. I felt a period coming on for a few days w/ mild
>cramping and very minimal spotting. It built up today until I started
>getting significant cramps and heavy bleeding. I'm having to wear super
>tampons and full pads at the same time, and w/ both of those, I'm having to
>change the tampon every hour. It soaks through completely and soaks the
>pad, my underwear, may clothes, and whatever I happen to be sitting on,
>etc. So now I'm checking every hour, and changing the tampon, and sometimes
>changing the pad. Have put on new underwear about 4x now, and have been
>running laundry the last few hours. But the grossest thing is, when I check
>the tampon, huge, huge chunks of bloody clots are coming out.

And the damned things slide right by/down the tampon.

Chicken livers is
> just how looks--great description! Ugh!
>
> I can't believe it. The mass of it is astounding. Sorry to be so gross,
> but I figure I can talk candidly here. What causes this, and is it
> anything to worry about?

I don't know what causes those huge peri clots, all I know is that I had
them. No, don't worry about them. A story that's known by the oldies here
is that a college friend of mine experienced the gigantic clots from hell a
little while before mine showed up. Scared the hell out of her since she
had no clue they were a sign of perimeno, & so went to the doctor, ASAP.
The doctor asked her, "Are they as large as dinner plates?" Friend replied,
"No-o-o..." Doctor said, "Good; and don't worry, huge clots are normal at
this point. Come back if they get as large as dinner plates, okay?" ;-)
So, when mine showed up, I actually found it faintly (besides gross &
annoying) amusing - hey, they weren't as large as dinner plates! I was so
glad I had been forewarned about them - otherwise I would've freaked as
badly as she initially had.

Cathy


>
> Kim
> (add sbc before global to reply)
>

"HotFlashesColdTears" <kimstar2856@yahoo.com> wrote in
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> I remember reading something a while back about women in
> peri-menopause passing "chicken liver " clots and what a drag it is.
> This never happened to me before, until today. I felt a period coming
> on for a few days w/ mild cramping and very minimal spotting. It built
> up today until I started getting significant cramps and heavy
> bleeding. I'm having to wear super tampons and full pads at the same
> time, and w/ both of those, I'm having to change the tampon every
> hour. It soaks through completely and soaks the pad, my underwear, may
> clothes, and whatever I happen to be sitting on, etc. So now I'm
> checking every hour, and changing the tampon, and sometimes changing
> the pad. Have put on new underwear about 4x now, and have been running
> laundry the last few hours. But the grossest thing is, when I check
> the tampon, huge, huge chunks of bloody clots are coming out. Chicken
> livers is just how looks--great description! Ugh!
>
> I can't believe it. The mass of it is astounding. Sorry to be so
> gross, but I figure I can talk candidly here. What causes this, and is
> it anything to worry about?

You don't have to worry about it, unless they get to be the size of
dinner plates. Seriously.

But if you'd like to stop it, this works for some people:

Lay flat on your back with your feet up in the air. I usually butted up
against a wall. If you can tilt your pelvis up a bit, so much the
better. Stay that way for 15-30 minutes.

This sometimes worked for me when I was bleeding heavily. It's almost
like the uterus just forgets to turn off the spigot, and this reminds it.

Chak


--
I like the scientific spirit - the holding off, the being sure but not
too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against
them: This is ultimately fine - it always keeps the way open.
--Walt Whitman

"Chakolate" wrote:

> "HotFlashesColdTearsz" wrote:
>> I remember reading something a while back about women in
>> peri-menopause passing "chicken liver " clots and what a drag it is.
<snip>
>> I can't believe it. The mass of it is astounding. Sorry to be so
>> gross, but I figure I can talk candidly here. What causes this, and is
>> it anything to worry about?

> You don't have to worry about it, unless they get to be the size of
> dinner plates. Seriously.
<snip>

LOL! Thanks so much, Chak, Cathy and FurPaw. You've really reassured me. I
feel a lot better now...mentally, anyway, LOL. I'm lucky in one way I guess;
I do have adult diapers here, so I don't have to run out to by some.
Finally, having a disabled family member comes in handy. ; )

> But if you'd like to stop it, this works for some people:
>
> Lay flat on your back with your feet up in the air. I usually butted up
> against a wall. If you can tilt your pelvis up a bit, so much the
> better. Stay that way for 15-30 minutes.

Good gracious! I haven't done that kind of acrobatics since I was 15!

I think I'll just white-knuckle it...and get out the adult diaper.

Kim

HotFlashesColdTears wrote:
> I remember reading something a while back about women in peri-menopause
> passing "chicken liver " clots and what a drag it is. This never happened to
> me before, until today. I felt a period coming on for a few days w/ mild
> cramping and very minimal spotting. It built up today until I started
> getting significant cramps and heavy bleeding. I'm having to wear super
> tampons and full pads at the same time, and w/ both of those, I'm having to
> change the tampon every hour. It soaks through completely and soaks the pad,
> my underwear, may clothes, and whatever I happen to be sitting on, etc. So
> now I'm checking every hour, and changing the tampon, and sometimes changing
> the pad. Have put on new underwear about 4x now, and have been running
> laundry the last few hours. But the grossest thing is, when I check the
> tampon, huge, huge chunks of bloody clots are coming out. Chicken livers is
> just how looks--great description! Ugh!
>
> I can't believe it. The mass of it is astounding. Sorry to be so gross, but
> I figure I can talk candidly here. What causes this, and is it anything to
> worry about?

Dunno what causes them, but welcome to my world!

Some "expert" was waffling on about how we only lose a few teaspoons
of blood each month - it just looks more. Yeah? Well I use a mooncup
and I can actually measure how much I'm losing, and it's a hell of
a lot more than "a few teaspoons"!! (and that's before we get to the
clots)

--
Jette Goldie
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"Jette" <bosslady@scotlandmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> Dunno what causes them, but welcome to my world!
>
> Some "expert" was waffling on about how we only lose a few teaspoons of
> blood each month - it just looks more. Yeah? Well I use a mooncup and I
> can actually measure how much I'm losing, and it's a hell of a lot more
> than "a few teaspoons"!! (and that's before we get to the clots)
>
> --
> Jette Goldie

Yeah, where oh where did some (probably) male expert come up with the few
tsps. Even taking into account the rest of the non blood fluid in the
uterus, you've got to lose an heck of a lot more than a few tsps in a
"normal" period, never mind a flood. And a few tsps of blood loss a month
isn't going to drop one's hemoglobin & ferritin levels down into transfusion
levels.

Roseanne

On Dec 23, 2:44 am, "HotFlashesColdTears" <kimstar2...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> "Chakolate" wrote:
> > "HotFlashesColdTearsz" wrote:
> >> I remember reading something a while back about women in
> >> peri-menopause passing "chicken liver " clots and what a drag it is.
> <snip>
> >> I can't believe it. The mass of it is astounding. Sorry to be so
> >> gross, but I figure I can talk candidly here. What causes this, and is
> >> it anything to worry about?
> > You don't have to worry about it, unless they get to be the size of
> > dinner plates. Seriously.
>
> <snip>
>
> LOL! Thanks so much, Chak, Cathy and FurPaw. You've really reassured me. I
> feel a lot better now...mentally, anyway, LOL. I'm lucky in one way I guess;
> I do have adult diapers here, so I don't have to run out to by some.
> Finally, having a disabled family member comes in handy. ; )
>
> > But if you'd like to stop it, this works for some people:
>
> > Lay flat on your back with your feet up in the air. I usually butted up
> > against a wall. If you can tilt your pelvis up a bit, so much the
> > better. Stay that way for 15-30 minutes.
>
> Good gracious! I haven't done that kind of acrobatics since I was 15!
>
> I think I'll just white-knuckle it...and get out the adult diaper.
>
> Kim

kim - good to hear from you, even if it's for, uh, uncomfortable
reasons. sorry that you & jette are having these problems. i've been
hardly bleeding at all, but i would have a major freak out if all of a
sudden i was passing dinner plate clots. glad you got responses.

good luck,
ellen

Jette wrote the following on 12/23/2007 4:45 AM:

> Some "expert" was waffling on about how we only lose a few teaspoons
> of blood each month - it just looks more. Yeah? Well I use a mooncup
> and I can actually measure how much I'm losing, and it's a hell of
> a lot more than "a few teaspoons"!! (and that's before we get to the
> clots)

Yeah, right. I started using a Diva cup back when it first came up here.
It holds (IIRC) two ounces, and I was emptying it every couple of hours
during my heaviest days. Though it does hold the clots that slide past
tampons.

Speaking of which, after six months of -- at most -- light spotting
during my periods, (and much lighter periods for months before that) I
had the period from hell. I'd used up my diapers and hadn't replaced them
after my flow got so much lighter once my thyroid was under control. So I
got to wake up in a pool of blood. Full Diva cup, soaked overnight pad,
and completely soaked sheets and mattress pad. I'm hoping it was a last
hurrah and that will be the end of it, but it is more likely that my
thyroid meds need to be adjusted, as my alopecia areata has also made a
comeback, though just one small bald spot. If it happens again I'm going
in for some lab work.

Karen R.

In article <Xns9A0F14F46894chakolatehotmailcom@207.115.17.102 >,
Chakolate <chakolateDeathToSpammers@gmail.com> wrote:

> You don't have to worry about it, unless they get to be the size of
> dinner plates. Seriously.

Chicken liver size, OK.
Beef liver, not so ok.
Being finally finshed, priceless.

Priscilla, looking forward to that day