I am from Iowa. 40 yrs old, RH negative, never been on birth control, never had any children, started my period when I was 9 years old.
I have always had heavy periods starting around age 11. I would go for almost 10 days straight and 8 of those were super heavy. Also, I started around every 23 days or so. For the last 6 months, I have had 2 periods a month, and the first and second days are HELL. I feel like I'm bleeding to death, and then all at once it will slow on the 3rd day and stop by day 5. Of course it's nice compared to what I used to have, but twice the PMS is about to kill me~ not to mention what it does to my husband. Lol.
My best friend had a period this year from January to June, stopped and started again in July till October. She just had a hysterectomy 2 weeks ago, because she couldn't handle the bleeding and clots for that long anymore. She was a total emotional wreck. We both wonder what is going on. Thank you so much for this thread. Now we know we are not alone!!