On embarassing bodies recently they had a group of women using a 'cup' of some form and measuring their loss to see what the average was. Now I am fine with my blood, seeing other people's though :o.
Anyway, have you ever measured? I did this cycle out of interest as on the show, they said anything over 80ml was considered a worry - day 4 and I am at about 82ml.
Pfft! I reckon I'd get over 80ml easy!
That's only 2.67ml a day over 30 days of blood accumulating in your uterus. a drop in the ocean compared to the total volume of blood in your body.
I watched that episode also, it certainly makes you think.
I would be lucky to get 50ml...I have always been very light.
It would be interesting to check one month though.
I use menstrual cups and do this. I don't think it's that weird :rofl: I was a super heavy bleeder pre baby...had my first AF and it was very very light!
wow thats interesting. I range from very heavy to very light. So i reckon id exceed 80mls some months and not even close others.
BTW, i LOVE embarassing bodies :lol: makes me thankful im just fat and not have embarassing issues
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Well, that's just what the doctors and specialists on the show were saying, anything over 80ml, especially close to 100ml is far too much loss and the chances of their being a problem are much higher (ie anaemia, signs of endo, etc).:
I could see complications arising from an excess of 80 ml being lost a month. I used to get horribly tired after AF every month when I was vegetarian.
That's interesting... I've no idea how much I lose, but when I donate blood, they take about 450ml... They'll do that every 3 months, so you'd have to have menstrual loss of 150ml per month to equal that. I wonder if menstrual blood is more 'concentrated' or something??
Huzzah, I'm not the only one!
Since coming off the minipill a year ago, my cycles have been approx 4.5-5 weeks, I lose up to 5ml pre-period, 10ml on day 1, 7.5-10ml day 2, 5ml day 3, under 5ml for the next up to 3 days. So usually a 3-day period with a bit of spotting either side, losing up to 40ml each time. Sometimes only 30ml. I sometimes worry this isn't enough, but don't fret too much. Every now and then I'll lose 60ml instead in the same time so that surely makes it all better.