I pass a lot of clots every month when I bleed. It's been happening for years, sometimes worse or slightly better. I recall one year when it was utterly unbelievable---having to sit on a towel in the car, and even then, bleeding all over the place... I feel for you, I really do.

One of the bigger problems associated with this extra-heavy bleeding is anemia. Over the years, from losing so much blood, I became extremely anemic. A few years ago I hit bottom with that, and my condition was so severe that a naturopath recommended a blood transfusion! The solution to that involves taking iron and making dietary changes I guess. I've gotten better with regard to my iron levels...

Yet, the clots keep coming. I went back on the pill for a year. That cuts down on the bleeding a lot, though it's probably not a good idea to take artificial hormones like that---but I was feeling desperate. As far as natural solutions go, I just read another post in this forum recommending a certain "female formula" product, and after checking out its ingredient list I recalled how Chaste Tree Berry (also known as "Vitex") once worked wonders for me. Prescribed also to me by a naturopath, I took it for a while and it quickly reduced the bleeding to what I would consider a normal acceptable level. However, it started making me nauseous then, and I stopped taking it. Now, being reminded about it, I'm going to take it again. Time has a way of changing things, so I'm hoping I won't have any trouble with it. And that's not to say that anyone else would get nauseous from it---I don't know if that's a common reaction, but probably more of a personal thing.

Anyway, you might want to give it a try. I don't much care for doctors either, especially allopathic GYN doctors---I've asked many over the years about these very concerns and gotten absolutely NO HELP from them whatsoever. They'd say "everyone's different, and there is a whole spectrum of what "normal" flow is. Sure, true, but you and I know that passing many large clots is nerve-wracking and cannot be good...

I wish you good health and peace of mind, my friend. If there is a way for you to check out your blood for anemia, I'd highly recommend that--perhaps a cheap clinic or something? Anemia has robbed me of vital energy for years, and it takes years to rebuild the red blood cell army with vitamins.

I've been working with a homeopath who told me my situation (heavy, clotty periods and enlarged ovaries/ovarian "cysts" on ultrasound) were actually due to what is likely a long term protozoan infection, and that the protoza are hanging out in and around those organs and drawing blood into the area. Her testing is entirely by kinesiology and a lot of intuition, but she's had me on many different vibrational homeopathics over the past year (protozoa are tough to clear since they morph into new resistant forms as you're killing them off), and my periods are definitely lighter and less clotty. I had exactly what you described. I still have a ways to go, but I think she might have been right, and I did have a feeling that it had something to do with infection, which is why I never went for the laporoscopic surgery they recommended (told me I probably had endometriosis). It might be hard, but see if you can find a really skilled practioner that could test you for parasites and protozoa, in particular. Mine feels that 70% of all "illness" is actually due to protozoan infection as the root cause. Mind blowing.