Menstrual Cycle / Periods

UK sources of information and / or support

 The leaflets section of Patient UK

Includes leaflets called:

• Periods and Some Period Problems
• Painful Periods (Dysmenorrhoea)
• Heavy Periods (Menorrhagia)
• Delaying a Period

 Heavy Periods

Women’s Health Concern provides an independent service to advise, reassure and educate women about their health concerns. They provide a range of factsheets including one in this area.

 Period Pain

Women’s Health Concern provides an independent service to advise, reassure and educate women about their health concerns. They provide a range of factsheets including one in this area.

 Pelvic Pain Support Network

This site covers several common as well as many less common pelvic painconditions. For example, Adenomyosis, Adhesions, Dysmenorrhoea (Painful Periods), Endometriosis, Fibroids, Fibromyalgia, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Nerve damage (Sciatic, Pudendal, Ilio-inguinal), Ovarian Remnant Syndrome, Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID), Pudendal Neuralgia, Painful Bladder Syndrome/Interstitial Cystitis (PBS/IC), Vulvodynia. It has sections for patients, clinicians and researchers.

 Heavy menstrual bleeding

A patient guide to complement the NICE national guideline for health professionals called Heavy menstrual bleeding.

 Menstrual bleeding - fluid-filled thermal balloon and microwave endometrial ablation

A patient guide to complement the NICE national guideline for health professionals called Menstrual bleeding - fluid-filled thermal balloon and microwave endometrial ablation.

 Impedance-controlled endometrial ablation for menorrhagia

A patient guide to complement the NICE national guideline for health professionals called Impedance-controlled endometrial ablation for menorrhagia.

 Photodynamic endometrial ablation

A patient guide to complement the NICE national guideline for health professionals called Photodynamic endometrial ablation.

 Endometrial cryotherapy for menorrhagia

A patient guide to complement the NICE national guideline for health professionals called Endometrial cryotherapy for menorrhagia.

 Managing premenstrual syndrome (PMS) Information for you

Information from the Royal college of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.

  Endometrial Resection/Ablation

This site is edited by Derek McLintock, BSc MB BS FRCOG, a Consultant Gynaecologist and Obstetrician based in Hertfordshire, UK.

  Medicine Guide for Amenorrhoea

Provides detailed information about the drugs available to treat this condition. Medicine Guides provide reliable information about medicines, conditions and the different treatment options available. They have been developed in the UK as part of the Medicines Information Project.

 Medicine Guide for Delaying Menstruation

Medicine Guides provide reliable information about medicines (drugs), conditions and the different treatment options available. They have been developed in the UK as part of the Medicines Information Project. Includes detailed information about medicines used to delay menstruation.

 Medicine Guide for Menstrual Disorders

Medicine Guides provide reliable information about medicines (drugs), conditions and the different treatment options available. They have been developed in the UK as part of the Medicines Information Project.

 Youth Health Talk - Starting Periods

This is a website about young people’s real life experiences of health and lifestyle. It is not just a website about the medical facts, this is about real people and real lives.

 Periods, absent

Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.

 Periods

Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.

 Periods, heavy

Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.

 Periods, irregular

Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.

 Periods, painful

Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.

 The IUS for heavy periods

Information from BUPA.

 Endometrial ablation

Information from BUPA.

Further sources / more detailed information

Some non-UK sites

The following list popular non-UK health information sites with content aimed at the general public. They are mainly from the US. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included but these large sites are comprehensive.

• Non-UK disease / illness sites
• Non-UK self-help / support group sites

More detailed medical information

The following list online sources of more detailed medical information, mainly from the UK. These sites are mainly aimed at health professionals, but are of interest to all. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included, but information about most medical topics can usually be found.

• PatientPlus - hundreds of medical reference articles provided by Patient UK.
• Evidence Based Medicine - such as from Clinical Evidence, The Cochrane Library, etc.
• Database of UK Clinical Guidelines - from NICE, SIGN, Clinical Knowledge Summaries, etc.
• Medline - abstracts available from thousands of journals.
• Sites listing free online medical textbooks and journals.
• Sites listing free medical images - pictures, atlases, anatomy, skin diseases, etc.