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Menstrual Cycle / Periods
UK sources of information and / or support
The leaflets section of Patient UK
Includes leaflets called:
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.
Further sources / more detailed information
Some non-UK sites
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- Non-UK disease / illness sites
- Non-UK self-help / support group sites
More detailed medical information
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- 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.
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Related pages in Patient UK
Health Topic information leaflets related to this topic (^ top of page)
Female Reproductive System
Heavy Periods (Menorrhagia)
Period Blood Loss Chart
Period Pain
Periods - How to Delay One
Periods and Some Period ProblemsDiagrams related to this topic (^ top of page)
Menstrual Diary (diagram)Support Groups related to this topic (^ top of page)
Pelvic Pain Support Network
Women's Health ConcernPatientPlus articles related to this topic (^ top of page)
Abnormal Menstruation
Amenorrhoea
Dysmenorrhoea
Menorrhagia
Normal Menstruation
Premenstrual SyndromeUK guidelines related to this topic (^ top of page)
Guidelines on Amenorrhoea
Guidelines on Menorrhagia
Guidelines on DysmenorrhoeaLinks to other selected websites related to this topic (^ top of page)
DysmenorrhoeaPoems and stories related to this topic (^ top of page)
Starting your PeriodsPatient UK Newspaper (^ top of page)
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