INFO POST! WOMEN'S HEALTH: Menstruation & You

[lickety_split]

DISCLAIMER: Info posts may contain triggering elements, so please be mindful of the topic and read at your own discretion. This post contains images but none that are sexually graphic (unless the cartoon uterus diagram is your thing idk).

SPECIFIC TRIGGER WARNINGS: depression, suicideThese posts are a "safe space" to ask questions you might

Comments

[dorawa]

i need that pursonal thing in my life, it's adorable!

i just recently started using tampons and i will never go back to anything else. it's a wonderful thing. the cup scares me though, i could never do something like that, idk!

i have weird periods, like they always come at a different time every month which leads to me waiting and waiting and never knowing what day it'll come. it's not a 28 day schedule and it bugs me :\ anyone else like this?

[nesmith]

I've never been regular ever, and my period never ever come at the same time. By some stroke of luck I get a little bit of warning before it starts so I haven't had a serious accident in years. Damned inconvenient, though.

[saintly_heretic]

if you have a smartphone there's an app for this. i used to think the same thing about my cycle, but actually it averages out to about 24 to 26 days because i'm a smaller woman. for whatever reason i grew up thinking that it was supposed to happen on the same calendar date each month, lol, no. this app predicts the first day of bleeding, and it's usually right on the money or off by only a day, and shows you when you are most fertile, etc. it's pretty amazing.

[dorawa]

it seems like it, but the thing is my periods are never earlier than they should be. they're always later, lol. i think my schedule is about 30 days, but i should probably start keeping track :\

[terribilita]

Can you tell us the name of that app?

[saintly_heretic]

i think there are several but mine is "Menstrual Calendar from FertilityFriend.com"

[_keepthebeat]

Seconding request for the name of the app!

[emotionally]

I use mydays

[illusivevenstar]

no, i'm not regular at all. i use an app on my iphone to try and keep track but as i said, i'm not regular so at best, it gives me an average time of my cycle.

this time, i started a week and a half before the app said i should've started my period. lol.

[dorawa]

i think i'm starting earlier than i should be :( i'm going through the pre-signs of getting my period (i won't call it pms because it's not extreme but i've been irritable, lethargic, leaking, etc) but it's not supposed to come for another 2 weeks....

TMI YO

[trojanchick99]

I've only been regular when I was on the pill. I'm between 30 and 33 days. Last month, 33 days this month 30. Ugh.

[five_sunsets]

Ughh me too. Sometimes its at the end of each month, sometimes it's two weeks later. I usually cramp a week or so before, so I can start prepping -_-

[martyfan]

Yep. I've only recently started to get on a more regular cycle, somehow (I'm 25), but before now it's been anywhere from a two week gap between periods to two months, once. And I have unpredictable durations, as well. Used to average around two weeks of bleeding, now getting down to a more reasonable 7-8 days, but I had a 28 day one once too. Whenever I go on a trip anywhere I make sure to pack enough pads (can't use tampons or anything similar because of pain issues) for the entire duration because I never know when my period's going to fuck me up.

[romp]

I joke that my cycle is on shuffle but really it's just long and not exact. Which I've heard may be affected by estrogen (which is stored in fat) but which I wonder may be inherited.

[thenakedcat]

I have an extremely irregular period, just like my mother did until she went through menopause. It's been known to skip months completely, to go only 15 days between bleeds, and once vanished for an entire year. Even when I'm on the pill to stop PMS from worsening my depression, the bleeding comes when it damn well pleases, not according to when I take the placebos.

[jiaren_shadow]

I used to be; sometimes my periods would be upwards of 3 months apart and come at inconsistent times whatever month they came. That got to be real fun once I became sexually active. They'd also be excruciatingly painful (like to the point where I was vomiting and worried that I had appendicitis) and heavy (oh, adorable pink panties from Victoria's Secret. I hardly knew ye). Luckily the birth control I'm on sorted things out very nicely, and now my periods are very manageable, and come every month like clockwork. And I get advance warning because the week before I'll always be all EAT ALL THE FOOD and YELL AT ALL THE THINGS.