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What Causes Prolonged Menstrual Cycle?

Hi. My name is Samantha. My problem is that I usually have a 7 day menstrual cycle but up until September, My cycles have been prolonged. I am now seeing my period for 14+ days. I have been taking birth control pills to help regulate my period but it doesn t seem to work. I m more likely to bleed more. Help?!
Mon, 9 Nov 2015
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Based on your symptoms I advise you to get ultrasound done. Your symptoms could be because of dysfunction uterine bleeding, Fibroids, adenomyosis etc.. So ultrasound will help you to rule out any underlying pathology.

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What Causes Prolonged Menstrual Cycle?

Hello, Welcome to hcm, Based on your symptoms I advise you to get ultrasound done. Your symptoms could be because of dysfunction uterine bleeding, Fibroids, adenomyosis etc.. So ultrasound will help you to rule out any underlying pathology. Thank you