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My irregular "regular" period
I'm 23 years old and since I got my period in 6th grade it has always been regularly really irregular. Very rarely was I a 28 day cycle girl, mine would range from 31, 32, 35 back in HS. In college my first 3.5 years I went on BC and that was the only time I had a predictable period.
I went off the second semester of my last year of college because the hormones were just getting to me. I had been on 3 types of BC. For the first year and a half I was on ortho cyclen and that worked well until it was making me really short tempered and extremely depressed, switched off to Yaz and it made me gain some extra weight & changed my personality. I went onto using the generic of Yaz and the pharmacy kept changing the generic brands and my body was super sensitive to the change, I would get headaches from one of the generics and severe anxiety for the other. So basically each month, my body after adjusting to one generic version of pills would have to readjust to another because the pharmacy could not gauruntee me the same generic.
My body had finally just had enough stress and so had I. I hated adjusting to BC pills because it made me feel like I was slowly becoming someone else everytime I took it. I took bc mainly for birth control and for a predictable period. My choices going off were for the benefit of my body being hormone free and helping me feel more clear, more "me".
I knew going off my body would have to adjust to a normal cycle and I anticipated missing periods or even being more irregular than I had been off of BC in the first place. It's been over a year and a half now since I've been off the pill and it has not regulated itself.
Ive talked to my gyno and she pushes BC soley because she doesnt want me to get pregnant. I'm an adult, I'm engaged and in a serious relationship.
So basically my period today is at 39 days since my last period. I took a test and it was negative. I've felt like I was going to get my period like a week and a half ago. I always get pms symptoms 1-2 weeks early and my periods have been ranging from 29-36 days. The longest it's ever been between periods is 56 days. It's just really frustrating and I'm wondering why sometimes it's so outrageously late! I did have a really bad case of the flu the last week of march? Which happened a few weeks after my last period.
I'm just wondering if anyone else's takes a natural approach to their life and also has gone off the BC train for health reasons?
What they do about irregular periods/cycles?
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I took BC for a week or so i dont even remember the type though Yaz sounds familiar. I would take the pill & within 30 min i was a rage fueled emotional mess. I scared myself on how angry i got over absolutely nothing. Within a week i was in fetal position in bed in so much pain i would just lay there & cry. Obviously i stopped taking the BC. Through hours & hours of research i stumbled upon apple cider vinegar(its gross & burns BAD but it works.) To regulate cycles you drink 2tbs 3× a day. You can mix in oj so its not too bad but im not gonna lie its horrible & painful but it works
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Have you talked to your gyno about maybe seeing if there is a health issue that is effecting your periods like that because if you have an issue health wise you do need specific birth controls. I would even tell the gyno about the way the bcs are making you feel and how they keep switching them at the pharmacies. Because these are things they need to know to help you otherwise they don't know much more than you do. I really would just talk to them about that and maybe about different things you could use instead of B.C. because I know a lot of people who used Yaz actually recommended getting the nuvaring afterwards.
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Wow, thats highly unusual to still have irregular periods at your age.
Its very common for teens. It can take several years after puberty for the body to know what to do with the hormones now coursing through the body and to become regular.Usually though, at the latest, by 17, 18 a female will be normal. After that, its time to be tested by a doctor. Not all doctors are perfect and can make mistakes.Your Dr tried the most common solution known in the medical community and may not have been trained how to research what is actually causing your fluctuations, but did the common band-aid solution. Since it isn't working for you, you may need to see another Dr. who isn't going to push BC at you again but actually run some tests to find out what is wrong. Has anyone ever checked your hormone levels? If they were too low or too high and that is the problem, then there must be something else they can give you to regulate them, other than birth control. If you want to know what things that are natural you can take to become regular, you I have no ins. or job currently. glion cyst from what I could tell on line and from a friend whose had it before. If I have to, g to experience draining a cyst with a needle. Most like might just want to go see a Naturopath. They have all the same training as regular MD's plus more studying Natural health science as well. If anyone could steer you the right way a Naturopath could.
Now if you don't want to get pregnant for a while and wish to be on some birth control, there is one that is not hormone based, it is the copper IUD. called Paragard. You can read up about it on line and decide if thats something you want for birth control. It won't however regulate your period cycle. So you'd still need to have someone do some more research and deeper testing to see if there is another medical issue that is causing this. Good luck dear.
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