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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A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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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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.
chosha_fml 27
You also might be anaemic and need an iron injection after six months of that. Worth checking.
chosha_fml 27
You also might be anaemic and need an iron injection after six months of that. Worth checking.
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
blahblabbity 19
i’m going through the same thing & they’ve switched my birth control three times since March
bluejello2001 18
Three times since March?! That isn't really gonna help, your body needs time to actually respond and adjust to the changes in hormone levels. Unless you're having really negative reactions, most doctors will have you go at least two or three months on a new method/brand/whatever before trying something else. Because human bodies are weird and not everyone responds to meds the same way. My doctor agreed that I could "stack" my BC pills (skip the placebo weeks and go through 3 packs straight) so I'd only have 4 periods a year. Fairly common method if you're stable on the pill. My uterus did NOT approve. 3 and a half week period with a flow that somehow got heavier every. single. day. 2 months of stacking? My body is very happy with that, and my periods are barely a nuisance.
blahblabbity 19
i was on the shot from May 2017-March 2018, and got put on the pill instead (by my PCP). i just went to my OBGYN earlier this month to switch pills again because i bled for over a month, on the shot AND the pills. i also had to get the Mirena IUD surgically removed because it had embedded by my ovary within 2 months of having it, hence getting the shot instead. (i got the Mirena six weeks after i gave birth, after i got pregnant on the pill.)
blahblabbity 19
if anything can happen to me, it will. my whole reproductive system is pretty much an FML
ChromoTec 24
What a bloody coincidence!
bluhbluhbluh 14
Please try to see a doctor.
Lillysar91 20
24 days? Every month? Like many have said, do consult a sexual health clinic or your OBGYN as soon as possible this isn’t normal. Several conditions may cause menorrhagia and a dr will know what to check for and how to help you.
riley873 21
Please tell me you've gone to your GYN?
Zekfen 17
Never trust anything that bleeds for 5 days and doesn’t die. In this case we can only assume you have made a deal with the devil!
boopingsnoot 25
The uterus is the one that made a deal with the devil...
RichardPencil 32
If you have a boyfriend or husband, he's a saint!
Roseicat 16
invest in a mooncup or similar and save yourself some dosh, but make sure you do get checked out. read up on it and don't let doctors phob you off. sorry dude sometimes haveing uturuses utursucks x