Heavy periods: Expert advice
'A heavy period is when it affects a women's life socially or professionally, such that at certain times she is unable to carry on with normal life.
The [hormone treatment] Mirena and new safer forms of endometrial ablation have revolutionised our approach to heavy periods.
Often there is no particular cause to be found. Sometimes a structural irritation in the womb is to blame. Heavy periods are also more common in women who are overweight.'
Mr Peter Bowen-Simpkins, from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
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