What is menorrhagia?

Heavy menstrual flow is known as menorrhagia. It is characterized by excessive or abnormally heavy uterine bleeding during menstruation.

How do members experience menorrhagia?

Top 5 symptoms reported by people with menorrhagia*

*Reports may be affected by other conditions and/or medication side effects. We ask about general symptoms (anxious mood, depressed mood, fatigue, pain, and stress) regardless of condition.

Top treatments taken by people for menorrhagia*

Who has menorrhagia on PatientsLikeMe?

Age

Age Proportion # of patients
<20 2
20s 12
30s 35
40s 72
50s 83
60s 17
70+ 2

Distribution of sex

Sex

Sex Proportion # of patients
Male 2
Female 223

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What is menorrhagia?

Heavy menstrual flow is known as menorrhagia. It is characterized by excessive or abnormally heavy uterine bleeding during menstruation.



Common symptoms reported by people with menorrhagia

Common symptoms
How bad it is
What people are taking for it

Reports may be affected by other conditions and/or medication side effects. We ask about general symptoms (anxious mood, depressed mood, fatigue, pain, and stress) regardless of condition.
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Treatments taken by people for menorrhagia

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Compare treatments taken by people with menorrhagia

Let’s build this page together! When you share what it’s like to have menorrhagia through your profile, those stories and data appear here too.

Got a question about living with menorrhagia? Members in the forum might have the answers.



Who has menorrhagia on PatientsLikeMe?

  • 1 new patients joined this month
  • 73 say menorrhagia is their primary condition

Age
Age Proportion # of patients
<20 2
20s 12
30s 35
40s 72
50s 83
60s 17
70+ 2
Age at first symptom
Age at first symptom Proportion # of patients
0-19 years 44
20-29 years 17
30-39 years 29
40-49 years 23
50-59 years 1
60-69 years 0
70+ years 0

Distribution of sex

Sex
Sex Proportion # of patients
Male 2
Female 223

Diagnosis status
Diagnosis status Proportion # of patients
Diagnosed 113
Not Diagnosed 21

These charts show data from menorrhagia patients who have completed their condition history
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