Why do some women have heavy and long menstrual flows?
The causes of prolonged and heavy bleeding are given below. • In younger women heavy periods are most often due to a temporary hormone imbalance, which eventually corrects itself. • In the years close to the menopause, (45 years of age onwards) heavy periods are usually a sign of hormone imbalance. However, the possibility of heavy periods being caused by an underlying disease increases with age.
