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S3 Ep40: 40. Period Problems: Heavy Menstrual Bleeding

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Are You Treating the Break Through Bleeding With a Lark in Place?

The biggest thing is stopping the periods in addition to that, because if they're still having the heavy munstrel bleeding, you're never going to build up stores. A patient like ours with a hemoglobin of eight point five has iron deficiency anemia. And you start her on like this, continuous o c ps and iron pills, how soon would you expect her hemoglobin and her iron stores to kind of recover to a normal range? Yes. So, you know, if you stop the bleeding entirely and are actually taking the iron, it happens pretty quickly. But i think at some point you get to the point where, does it make sense to still keep the mplan in place

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