Can you have endo and light/normal periods

[princessk09]

This month I have had a light period but with really painful cramps and lower back ache(to the point I couldn't move or walk) nausea, tiredness etc

I've been having heavy periods for the past year and now it's light.

I haven't been diagnosed with endo but can you have light periods and have endometriosis. As I've seen it's mostly heavy periods.

[penny24]

Hiya

I was diagnosed with endometriosis last year and I have light periods. Only symptoms I have is infertility and since my laparoscopy I get tugging pains in my lower abdomen

Hope that helps, think the condition is very individual xx

[Starry]

Yes my flow was never particularly heavy, though the cycles were a little irregular at times and I always spotted a long time either side.

I had a 3.2cm Recto vaginal Endometriosis nodule attaching bowel, vagina and cervix , plus endo on bladder, us ligaments, peritoneum

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[Rach3187]

Hmm my cycles well always 5-8 days every 21 days and I get big cloths and then it goes to small 😑 is that normal???

[WeeJacs]

Hi P

Yes you can have Endo with no symptoms. I didn't have any but was diagnosed after a Lap last year, my left side is fused x

[princessk09 in reply to WeeJacs]

I have some symptoms it's just my periods changed this month. I have painful sex, painful cramps, nausea, really bad mood swings (idk if endo can cause that) and some other stuff

[Cath77]

Yes, my periods have never been heavy and they're mostly regular. Sometimes they only last a couple of days and I don't pass much blood at all. They can be incredibly painful and I have spotting for days after. I've had three procedures to remove endo from my bowel, inside my bladder and to mobilise my fallopian tubes and ovaries. I still have endo in the lining of my bowel so I would say that heavy periods are not a definite endo indicator.

[princessk09 in reply to Cath77]

Thank you, yeah mine are so painful I can't sleep or move and just cry. But it only lasts like 3 days and then it's just a dull ache.

[AJJ123]

Yes. Mine were sometimes heavy and yuk, other times were light/normal. One occasion it was really scanty and light. It just depends on my body I guess, we are all different.