Large blood clots during period...

[Miss_Sassy]

Hi there,
I'm a bit embarrassed about asking this question as I have no idea why it is happening to me but I'll do my best to explain...
Probably for the past year or so I've been getting blood clots during my period that are reasonable size and regular but I've never really worried about them before. Thismorning however, was a different story!
I woke up today and thought I had wet the bed, I was drenched but when I got up I realised it was all blood.
I had a shower and was quite freaked out as my period finished about a week ago, when I got in the shower I felt something and looked down to see a massive blood clot falling out of me (sorry to be so gory!) and I was so scared, it was probably around 6cm long and 2cm wide, another smaller clot also came out at the same time but since thismorning I haven't had any more bleeding it just all seemed to come out at once!
This has never happened to me before and I'm quite worried but too embarrassed to tell anyone, please help! Is this "normal"??
Thanks for any advice.

[Meekz90]

Hi there,
I don't usually get blood clots in my period at all, and as I was surprised to get my period as iv been on depo- provera I decided maybe I was unlucky enough to get it even though you usually don't (and I didn't the first time on this contraception). And it was such a heavy painful period so I sat down on the toilet for a while and passed a quite large blood clot, it was about 2cm wide and about 5cm long in a sort of c looking shape. I'm feeling a little worried, what could this mean?

[Miss_Sassy]

For got to mention, I'm 18 and have been having periods since I was 11. I used to get bad cramps but don't usually anymore.