I Bled For 48 Days Straight, And No One Thought It Was Serious

Now, a viral TikTok video has highlighted my plight from years ago

Working at an awards show in Mumbai, just days before my excessive bleeding started (Photo:

Pallabi Dey Purkayastha

)

In 2023, when I told people I had been bleeding for weeks and that I could barely get out of bed because of everything that was going on with my body, they just shrugged.

“Periods happen every month, what’s the matter with you?” joked one, while another friend thought I was exaggerating since it’s ‘normal’ for women to bleed slightly more than usual.

Now, a news piece about an American TikToker, Poppy, has shone a light on what I have been saying all along: to bleed for more than seven days is neither normal nor easy to endure. The physical, mental, and emotional toll it took on her seemed like a mirror image of what I was going through a couple of years earlier.

When things got intense, since my gynecologist was unable to identify the reason behind my profuse bleeding, she asked me to undergo the test that I feared the most:

The Pap Smear test.

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