37 days after the last one...

[ajva]

My period started this morning; it was brown and bitty as sometimes it likes to be.

Thank you for your kind attention.

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[sashajwolf.livejournal.com]

When I'm not on the Pill, I have a fairly regular cycle of between 26 and 30 days. It's self-correcting - if it's 26 days one month, I can bet it will be 30 the next, thus restoring the average of 28. It tends to be fairly heavy and lasts seven days - bright red bleeding the first day, dark red with clots for another four, then tailing off through bright red and brown for another two. When I tell doctors this, they often refuse to believe me, on the grounds that I should only get fresh bleeding for that long if I have endometriosos or PCOS or some other nasty, which I don't. I get fairly bad PMS the week before, with water retention, period pains for the last day or so and a sort of nasty sensation that I can only describe by saying it's as if my blood is fizzing inside me. This (understandably, I hope you will agree) makes me grouchy and snappy. Mega-doses of Evening Primrose Oil help a little.

When I first started the Pill, I had only minimal bleeding for the first six months or so, but with irregular spotting in between Pill breaks. Now it's settled down to something closer to the original pattern - it usually starts two days after the last tablet and is brownish for two days, bright red for one, dark red with clots for two and back to brown for another two. I still get water retention, especially if I don't eat right, but I don't need the EPO and I don't get the fizzing sensation, so it's no longer necessary for the rest of the household to take cover. I occasionally get period pains, but they're much, much milder than before.

TMI yet?