Menorrhagia and metrorrhagia Heavy, prolonged menstrual bleeding is the most common symptom for women with bleeding disorders.
Some women have heavy bleeding throughout the normal menstrual period.
This is called menorrhagia. Other women bleed throughout the month without stopping. This is called metrorrhagia. Normally, all women lose a tiny amount of blood at mid-cycle of their period, the moment of ovulation, when the egg is ejected from the ovary. However, women with bleeding disorders can lose a large amount of blood at this time.