I take iron supplements due to my massive amount of blood loss during my period?
This has lead me to become anemic. As instructed by my physician, I am to take 1 iron supplment a day. But when I’m on my period the iron supplement is making my period last over 2 weeks, and I’m loosing even more blood!!
So I decided to stop taking them becuase I was so scared of loosing all of that blood. Should I continue taking the iron supplements or should I just leave them alone?
Thank you!
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The iron tablets don’t make your period last longer. You need to find way to decrease the blood flow and duration of your periods, this will solve the problem of your anaemia.
Go back to your doctor, maybe using a tablet called Transenamic Acid will help control your periods? Can you use birth control pills they regulate periods as a rule and make bleeding much lighter. I had very heavy periods and now have a Mirena IUS which is a slow release hormone coil and my periods have now stopped completely thank goodness.
You need to go back to your doctor. I doubt that it is the iron causing the blood loss.