Today, exactly 28 days after I started my last period, I started a new period. This would be perfectly healthy and normal except that my last period was 24 days long. This has happened every month this year. FML
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Today, my period started again. I just finished a 17-day period 3 days ago. FML
Today, thanks to a new form of birth control, I've now been having my period non-stop for six weeks. FML
Today, I started my period. Unfortunately, my last period only ended six days ago. PCOS sucks. FML
Today, a month into exercising for the first time in years to get summer body for vacation, the sudden exertion pushed back my period. If I'd sat on my ass, my period would have been on time this month, and over next month before my vacation started. I was really looking forward to period-free vacation. Not anymore. FML
Today, I’ve had an irregular period my whole life. I was on birth control and took out my IUD in January. I’ve had my period ever since. It’s going on 5 months now. FML
Today, I was concerned I hadn’t restarted my periods yet after the birth of our first child. Turns out it’s because I’m pregnant again already. We must have gotten pregnant off the very first egg I released after giving birth. Our first baby is only 3 months old. FML
Today, despite me getting my period every two weeks and bleeding heavily enough that I faint if I move too fast, my doctor told me that it's normal and to just "take it easy". FML
Today, my period was officially 2 weeks late. I have a phobia about giving birth, so I had a panic attack, went to Walmart, spend $15 on four pregnancy tests and a drink, came home, and took the tests. All four came back negative. As I went to clean up and throw everything away, I got my period. FML
Today, I was told that since I've had only three or four periods since 2013, there's 60 periods worth of blood clotted in my uterus. They gave me medicine to make it all come out in one week. FML
Today, I started my period, complete with cramps, diarrhoea, a headache, bloating, and aching legs. Apparently my body didn't get the message that I had a total hysterectomy a month ago, including my ovaries, tubes and cervix. FML
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interesting33 37
If you haven't already, I would urge you to go to a doctor or even a health clinic. That isn't normal and they should be able to stop it. It could be a side effect of birth control pills or anything really. You need to get it checked out to check it is nothing serious and to help stop it as it sounds uncomfortable to say the least.
SparkleEllison 17
Going on the pill is a good way to try and fix this, a similar thing happened to me. Also look into the very real possibility of having endometriosis
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GamerChickxoxo 16
Go get yourself checked out. you hay have a tear, chlamydia or another serious health problem.
Anducar 10
Sweetie, you really need to see a doctor at once. This might be something really serious if you're unlucky. Bleeding for several months with hardly any break is not healthy.
CurmudgeonCrunch 7
So you’re saying you no longer have periods. You have sentences.
bluejello2001 18
Run-on sentences at that.
Emma1562 35
The pad rashes.......*shivers*
manadaaaa 12
Tampons!!!!!
GIJoefan 6
Unless the tampons get over saturated and leak, then you need a pad or a liner to protect your undies.
manb91uk 22
The fact it took you 6 months to go "hmm... Something isn't right here" is really alarming
Lissa Mosser 7
First of all, reproductive health is not thoroughly taught in the US. We are all given the whole 28 day cycle myth in middle school but never taught that in reality a lot of women have irregular cycles for a plethora of reasons. We just have to learn through embarrassing experiences and all the surprise and painful side effects of uterus ownership that near everyone in a girls life will shy away from frank conversation about. Second, going to a doctor is scary, especially one who is going to put their hands in your most intimate orifice. Add to that the stigma of being irregular and the fact that way too many OBGYN doctors treat you like scum for having the audacity to bleed in their presence, as if you could shut off the main valve the night before your appointment. Lastly, when it comes to irregular bleeding... the tests include scraping cells off your cervix with a wire brush, spraying vinegar on your cervix while your entire ****** is displayed on a giant screen in the room, cutting tissue out of your cervix or dilating your cervix with a plastic tube and punching a hole in your uterine wall for tissue samples. All done with not even a local anesthetic. But yeah, shame on her for not jumping on that bus of pain and humiliation the first second her Disney princess period didn't last 5 to 7 days and eb like the red sea when moses held up his staff.
isabella1998 8
Go to the Gynocologist
Lissa Mosser 7
The same thing happened to me and got progressively worse over years before I finally had the courage to see a doctor. I had "an alarming number of uterine polyps" and cervical cancer. See a doctor ASAP. The testing will be uncomfortable and occasionally painful, but it's worth it to know. It could be hormonal, or weight, or diet, or some benign disorder. But it could also be something that could cost you your life. My doctor told me that if I had waited another year it would have been a radical hysterectomy and possible lymph node involvement. She didn't even want to address what it could have been if I had waited two or three more years.
genji_fml 13
Well it's pretty obvious which commenters are male lol. I'm sure your partner, if you have one, will survive just fine, but yeah, could be cysts or some other nasty so make sure you get it checked when you can OP <3 Best of luck!
GIJoefan 6
You might have uterine polyps, fibroids or even endometriosis. Get a checkup, ASAP!
circuitboynm 8
It’s not your fault you have a wide-set ****** and a heavy flow.
Cali 57
I understood that reference!