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What are different ways you can lighten your period or reduce the flow?

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Many meds or ways: Please see your obgyn for an evaluation to make sure nothing strange or bad is going on, and then there are both medical and office surgical options depending on the cause and your ferttilty desires.

Answered 11/13/2017

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