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UltraViolet
07-21-2008, 01:52 PM
I have no health insurance and while I could go to PP, I really don't think it's necessary. As I said before, my period is very irregular and my husband has fertility issues. Might have been the change in my activity level this past month; I started work and I get out more. More activity has always tended to mess with it for me. I have also gone 3 months with a no show period and been fine.

If it still doesn't come in a few WEEKS, I'll do another test and see the doc.

StarryEyes
07-21-2008, 01:55 PM
^^ A doctor visit is a good idea.

For some reason I couldn't handle taking a home test. It made me too nervous and even if the home test did come out positive I'd have to go see a doctor anyways.

miabella
07-21-2008, 02:22 PM
How does it work for irregular cycles if they are really ....irregular? Like unpredictable irregular?
Surprisingly, there are often still basic patterns and sub-patterns that can be useful to figure out your cycles even when they seem pretty random.
charting and/or cervical fluid observation are ways to narrow the range of possibilities down. a lot of women have 26 day cycles followed by 43 day cycles followed by 30 day cycles and are like 'how can charting be useful for me?'

but then they start charting, and little patterns specific to and for their individual bodies start to emerge and they find they can predict some of those unpredictable cycles, enough to have better control over what's going on with their bodies. and in some cases, the process of tracking normalises some of their cycles a bit. i have a friend with PCOS who just...it looked random if you saw the list of cycle lengths until she started charting.
but once she started having to track her body's little blips and beeps, her cycles got a lot more regular and she had fewer super-long ones. she wants children and found that she was also able to conceive multiple times (quite difficult with PCOS).

in my own case, i had menhorragia (unusually heavy menstrual-like bleeding in between periods). without charting, i thought i was bleeding every day for months, but a day-by-day look of my charts revealed that it was less severe *and* less frequent than i thought-- which meant surgery was off the table to reduce the bleeding and i was instead able to clear up the bleeding through dietary changes (much less invasive).

i was basically bleeding 6-7 days in a row and thinking it was 10-12. and that itself makes a huge difference in diagnosing a gyno issue. charting's less about chemical-free birth control or planning the gender of your kid and more about learning to observe your body intimately and thoroughly in just a few minutes a day (doesn't take years of med school, just a few minutes of day of practice, since you are only trying to 'learn' one body-- your own).

so it can help you find what predictability there is in your body's rhythms and cycles (and it is likely there is some predictable aspect that can then be used to give you a higher quality of life or find the correct medical treatment, if you need that).

i.breathe.in
07-27-2008, 10:45 AM
just an update, im not knocked up, i had quite the heavy period. :)

Polekitten
07-27-2008, 11:45 PM
just an update, im not knocked up, i had quite the heavy period. :)

Yeay! I didn't thin you were. Goddamn our bodies for playing these evil tricks on us!>:(

redhothoney
07-28-2008, 12:31 AM
I started gaining weight after 6 weeks, my flat chest suddenly grew (and I knew at 18 that was a little late for puberty) I got pregnant thanksgiving day lol, wow thanks...

miabella
07-28-2008, 01:20 AM
just an update, im not knocked up, i had quite the heavy period. :)

may have been a miscarriage, at least if it was heavier than normal. not a bad thing as such (they are relatively common since an early miscarriage can look like a heavy or even normal period), but not really 'not pregnant'.

ColetteCalahan
07-28-2008, 02:56 AM
IBI, thanks for the update! glad you're not... now spread some of that non-pg lovin' on me and ultraviolet please!!! :D

i.breathe.in
07-28-2008, 06:10 AM
may have been a miscarriage, at least if it was heavier than normal. not a bad thing as such (they are relatively common since an early miscarriage can look like a heavy or even normal period), but not really 'not pregnant'.

i highyl doubt it was that, but hey, fine by me.

UltraViolet
07-31-2008, 12:06 PM
Holy fucking shit, finally it comes....almost 2 months late. Heavy and crampy. Bitch period.

i.breathe.in
07-31-2008, 12:08 PM
congrats! my period was heavy and bitchy too, but i didnt mind after all the worry

Sophia_Ashley
07-31-2008, 12:37 PM
You should start a thread called "Congrats on your period!" because I think a lot of us were late this month and everyone was spending upwards of 80 bucks on tests that came back negative...then stressing out while waiting.

UltraViolet
07-31-2008, 03:49 PM
I had to take 3 aleve instead of the recommended 1 because I couldn't stand up straight. God, I thought I'd burst into tears of gratitude when the guy in line in front of me at WalMart took pity on me and let me go ahead of him when he had more than me.( I was buying Aleve)