Dilation and Curettage (D&C) For Heavy Vaginal Bleeding

Dilation and Curettage (D&C) For Heavy Vaginal Bleeding

  Dilation and curettage is a procedure performed on the uterus to stop heavy vaginal bleeding. It is commonly referred to as a D&C or a “scraping”. It is a procedure most commonly performed on women with severe bleeding in which the bleeding has to be dealt...
What Do You Want To Know About Heavy Bleeding?

What Do You Want To Know About Heavy Bleeding?

The goal of heavybleedinghelp.com has always been to provide expert information about heavy bleeding for our readers. We realize that our information has many uses for our readers. Some are doing research for their own problem with heavy periods. Some are interested...
Endometrial Biopsy Can Help Find the Cause of Your Heavy Bleeding

Endometrial Biopsy Can Help Find the Cause of Your Heavy Bleeding

Advertisement The endometrial biopsy is an important tool used by your  doctor to diagnose the cause of your heavy menstrual bleeding problem. The biopsy is a short in office procedure in which a small sample of the lining on the inside of the uterus  ( called the...
Huh?! Understanding My Doc’s Heavy Bleeding Lingo

Huh?! Understanding My Doc’s Heavy Bleeding Lingo

It’s true. I admit it. We do speak a different language. I remember back in my early days of my medical school training. We would have to sit down and memorize pages and pages of Latin sounding medical terms and their definitions. We would be tested on these...
Part 3 Why Am I Having Such Heavy Bleeding: Adenomyosis

Part 3 Why Am I Having Such Heavy Bleeding: Adenomyosis

  This is part three in a series on the causes of heavy menstrual bleeding.  You can find Part 1 and Part  2 here.     In the previous post we described the uterus as having 2 main layers.  The first is the muscular layer called the myometrium.  The...