At best it’s only messy. At worst, it’s a greatly limiting factor, where severe pain or heavy bleeding puts restrictions on your work and social life. We have talked to researchers about how menstruation affects women’s health.
Are your female colleagues usually off sick from work with menstrual pain or heavy bleeding? Perhaps you’re not aware of this? No, probably not. But there is no doubt that it happens.
Among other things, this is revealed in a study conducted by Lena Marions, gynaecologist and researcher at Karolinska Institutet’s Department of Clinical Research and Education at Södersjukhuset (Stockholm South General Hospital). She and colleagues have asked more than 1,500 women aged 40 to 45 about their period. About one third say they have heavy bleeding. In a clinical context, this refers to bleeding that exceeds 80 ml per menstrual period, a measurement which is admittedly difficult to keep track of. A more practical measurement, and the one used in the study, is to ask the woman if their sanitary protection bleeds through, it if has to be changed at night and if the discharge is lumpy in parts
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https://ki.se/en/research/how-menstruation-affects-womens-health