'The sheer amount of blood led him to think someone had broken into the house and hurt me. I assured him it was just my period' LaurenMedlicott speaks to Hemaia who suffers from ‘decidual casts’, where the lining of the uterus leaves the body all at once
It is only in the last two years, decades later, that I have come to understand that the ‘mass’ I found at age 10 was actually a decidual cast. This is when the lining of your uterus sheds in one piece, rather than gradually breaking down over the course of several days. But for decades, it has been my normal. Half of my periods are very heavy and painful for two weeks.
I never once saw a doctor about my periods until the fainting incident at 27. My husband rang 999 and told them I was having a really bad period. They hung up on him. He put me in the car and took me to the hospital. At first, doctors thought I had miscarried, but ruled it out as I was on contraception. They ended up referring me to a specialist who discovered I had two chambers in my womb, rather than one.
In the months I have a decidual cast, the symptoms are horrific but disappear almost immediately after I shed the uterus lining. The months I don’t have a decidual cast, my periods last for eight to 10 days, with two or three days of exceptionally heavy bleeding.
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