This Woman Had Her Period For Five Years Straight

A woman has revealed that she did not stop menstruating for five years straight, from the age of 14 right up until she was 19.

Perth local Chloe Christos, who is now 27-years-old, has come out to tell her story, after suffering with a constant period from the day she first got it until she was diagnosed with a rare condition.

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In an interview with ABC News, Chloe said, “I knew it wasn’t quite right, but I was also embarrassed to talk about it. I felt very different and pretty alone.”

Chloe spent years in and out of hospitals getting blood transfusions to treat the severe anemia that came with having her period constantly for such a long time.

Then finally, when she was 19-year-old, doctors diagnose the teen with a rare condition called Von Willebrand disease (VWD).

Although it's rare, the sometimes deadly disease, which is caused by a deficiency in a protein called the von Willebrand factor,is treatable.

Chloe spent the next seven years taking a synthetic drug which had severe side effects.

As she travelled around the country working as a stylist, she was yet again forced to spend days in hospital.

While some have raised the question of why she didn't just get a hysterectomy, Chloe said she didn't want to rule out the prospect of being able to have kids in the future.

“I don’t know if I ever want kids but I never wanted to get rid of what made me a woman. And I was terrified of being in my mid-20s and going through menopause,” she said.

After years of trying synthetic drugs which left her in the "emergency room of every country" she's visited, Chloe finally found a hemophilia center in Adelaide, where she was put on a blood product used for to treat hemophiliacs across Australia.

Thankfully it was a success, and for the first time in 13 years, she has a normal period that lasts four or five days.