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Heavy Menstrual Periods
You don't report symptoms of severe anemia, so you probably don't require an urgent evaluation based upon the information you have provided.
Heavy periods are quite common in the first couple years following the start of menstrual bleeding and again when a woman is approaching menopause.
Did your first period ever (your "menarche") start sometime in the past two years?
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