When a period is heavy enough to have checked
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When a period is heavy enough to have checked
There is no volume that counts as too much. What clinicians go by is what it stops you doing.
Nobody measures how much blood you lose, and there is no number that makes a period officially heavy. What a clinician goes by is the effect. Changing a pad or tampon every one to two hours for several hours. Bleeding through onto clothes or bedding. Clots bigger than a ten-rupee coin. Planning your days around your period. Any of those is enough to ask about. Two things make that appointment more useful. Count pads over two or three cycles and note whether they were soaked or lightly used — that turns "a lot" into something she can work with. And ask for your haemoglobin and your ferritin, not just haemoglobin: heavy periods are one of the commonest reasons for iron deficiency in women in India, and the tiredness gets put down to something else for years. Go the same day if you are soaking a pad every hour for two hours or more, if you feel faint or breathless, or if you are or could be pregnant and you are bleeding. This is a written short explanation from AskHer's editorial team, not a recording — there is no video of it yet. It was written from the full explanation linked on this page and the sources listed there, and it has not been signed off by a clinician registered in India. It is general education, not advice about your own situation.
By AskHer Editorial, AskHer's editorial team — not an individual clinician
Reviewed by the editorial desk on 2 September 2026. No clinician has signed it off yet.
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Heavy periods
NHS
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Good Clinical Practice Recommendations on management of abnormal uterine bleeding in the reproductive period
Federation of Obstetric and Gynaecological Societies of India
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Anaemia
World Health Organization
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Iron deficiency anaemia
NHS
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