i leak every night i don't wear a tampon

ever since i got my first period like 6 years ago (i am now 18) i have almost always bled onto my panties and subsequently often my pants and bedding. i've tried placing a long sheet of toilet paper from my pad up to my butt for extra padding. it doesn't work. the only thing that keeps me from leaking is a tampon.

it became so annoying while i was in high school that my mom briefly made me sleep on like a baby leak pad while on my period. i liked that because it worked but it didn't stop the problem and whenever i moved too much it would disturb the pad.

i am now at college and whaddya know, bled through my pants last night. it is now 6 am and i am sitting in the dark at my desk because i bled onto my bedding and even though its small i don't wanna sit on it, but i can't take the bedding off to wash it because one of my protectors is a zipper deal and it would probably be loud and annoying to my roommates. i pre-washed and changed my underwear and pants but now i'm just waiting for like 7:30 to take off my bedding and hope it didn't reach farther than my second layer.

i sleep on a lofted bed (basically a top bunk) so putting the sheets back on are going to be even more impossible than normal. this ruined my perfectly good sunday :(

do yall also leak almost every period? i feel like this is not normal and i'm missing something.