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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This isn’t going to be an easy answer for you:

In the olden days, they handled them by staying sufficiently underweight to lose their period. Hopefully you know all of the reasons that this is a bad idea- RED-S, etc.

Now, there are a few options. First, heavy periods aren’t normal. And I say this as a person who suffered through them from 13 to 26 and avoided all sorts of things and lived with insane stress because I couldn’t go 45 minutes sometimes without going through a super plus tampon.

Take her to a doctor and discuss dysmenorrhea and continuous birth control- if the concept of bcp freaks you out, you need to think of it as hormone control that will help your Dd live her life. Make sure she doesn’t have PCOS or endometriosis. Check her iron levels.

Continuous bcp changed my life but I wonder what I might have done or achieved had I not spent my adolescence worrying about period accidents or getting 2 hours of sleep at a time because I had to set alarms to avoid accidents at night.[/quote]

Totally agree with this. I had heavy periods until I got an IUD at 43. Also, do not assume that the ballet teacher will necessarily understand a vague reference to “heavy flow.”[/quote]

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