Heavy bleeding

[poppy40]

I am my period and it very heavy. Getting bad chest pain and left arm pain. I do have mircovascular angina. Feeling tired. Don't know what to do. I have lost my gtn spray.

[wobblybee Administrator Pioneer]

🙂 I can see you have had good advice from the British Heart Foundation via a link on Healthunlocked..you really are getting the best advice there..

If you have serious concerns ring 999

🙂 If it helps you...other people have said GTN Spray is available OTC..

Heavy periods can be very wearing..check with your GP in case you need supplements. Heavy blood loss can be common around the time of Perimenopause.,

[EvieJ70]

I had really bad chest pain which grew worse over the space of about a week to 10 days. I ended going to an urgent care and they did blood test results which revealed my haemoglobin was down to 80 due to my heavy periods. I was given an iron infusion the next day and the pain hasn't come back. I've also since had a hysterectomy due to fibroids which were causing the heavy bleeding. I never had pain in my arm but I would have gone to urgent care sooner if I had x