Chloe

Brief Outline:

Chloe is 16. She became very tired after her periods started and found out she was anaemic. She found out then that she had Coeliac disease and her period bleeding contributed to the anaemia. She has had treatments from the GP which have helped with period bleeding and pain, and she has also noticed that her periods have been better since she changed her diet because of the Coeliac Disease.

Chloe felt exhausted when her very painful periods started. A blood test showed she was anaemic, treatment for her period pain and flow helped, but was also found to have coeliac disease. She thinks treating this has also helped with her periods.

So, I guess, I was just gonna start by saying can you tell me a little bit about your periods, kind of when they started and what they’ve been like?

I think I was 13, and they weren’t that bad for like a year, and then when I was like 14 they got really bad. And I think in November 2022, I went to the doctor’s because I was just tired all the time, and I had really bad anaemia, so they put on... well, the anaemia was caused by coeliac disease, which I didn’t know I had.

Mm.

And then they put me on I think tranexamic acid and mefenamic acid, and those have helped like a bunch with just help like the flow and the pain and stuff.

OK. No, so you’ve actually had quite a rotten time. So, when you... when you saw this study I guess you... I can see why it connected—

But also, since I stopped eating gluten that they’ve been better, so...