Symptoms of bleeding disorders in women

You may have a bleeding disorder if you have one or more of the following symptoms:

• Heavy menstrual periods
  • Bleeding for more than 7 days, from the time it began until it stopped
  • Flooding or gushing of blood, limiting daily activities such as work, exercise or social activities
  • Passing clots that are bigger than a quarter
  • Changing tampon and/or pad every 2 hours or less on heaviest day
• Being told you are “low in iron” or have anemia
• Having bleeding symptoms and someone in your family has a bleeding disorder, such as von Willebrand disease, or a clotting factor deficiency, such as hemophilia
• Heavy bleeding from dental surgery, other surgery, or childbirth.
• Frequent nose bleeds that last longer than 10 minutes
• Bleeding from cuts lasting longer than 5 minutes
• Easy bruising (weekly, raised and larger than a quarter)

If you have one or more of these symptoms, talk to your doctor or other healthcare professional.