Hypomenorrhea (synonyms: Bleeding abnormality – menstrual bleeding, weak; Hypomenorrhea; Hypomenorrhea; Menstrual bleeding, weak; ICD-10-GM N91.5: Oligomenorrhea, unspecified) is a type disorder. Bleeding is too light (less than two presentations per day). Bleeding abnormalities (bleeding or cycle disorders) are divided into rhythm disorders and type disorders.
Type disorders include:
- Hypermenorrhea – bleeding is too heavy; usually the affected person consumes more than five pads/tampons per day
- Hypomenorrhea – bleeding is too weak; the affected person consumes less than two pads per day
- Brachymenorrhea – bleeding duration < 3 days.
- Menorrhagia – bleeding is prolonged (> 7 days and < 14 days) and increased.
- Spotting – interstitial bleeding such as.
- Premenstrual spotting – spotting before actual menstruation.
- Postmenstrual spotting – spotting after the actual menstruation.
- Middle bleeding – spotting at the time of ovulation (ovulation).
- Metrorrhagia – bleeding outside the actual menstruation; it is usually prolonged and increased, a regular cycle is not recognizable
- Menometrorrhagia – prolonged and increased menstrual bleeding (bleeding duration > 14 days) with intermenstrual bleeding (eg, juvenile menometrorrhagia; due tohypogonadism (gonadal hypofunction), hyperprolactinemia (increase in blood prolactin levels); often in menopause)Caveat: the term menometrorrhagia is often used synonymously with metrorrhagia in the clinic.
