Ever measured your menstrual loss? Careful if you're squeemish.

[Floweryfields]

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 .
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.

[helle]

Pfft! I reckon I'd get over 80ml easy!

[CrazyLady]

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.

[RainbowBrite]

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.

[PumpkinZulu]

I use menstrual cups and do this. I don't think it's that weird I was a super heavy bleeder pre baby...had my first AF and it was very very light!

[*LittleMissSummer*]

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 makes me thankful im just fat and not have embarassing issues

[Floweryfields]

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.

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).

[CrazyLady]

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.

[Pholi]

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??