I object strenuously

[commodorified]

My entire extended family from Red Bay is in town, throwing a boisterous, drunken, multi-day party performance of Titus Andronicus in my pants.

Seriously, I was under the blithe impression that perimenopause caused your periods to get lighter.

Also I have a nasty cold. This has not been an overly productive week.

Comments

[lexin]

Oh, miserable. I used to get that every month, which is why I'm now fitted with a Mirena coil.

[rymenhild]

I'm sorry for the affliction, but I heartily admire the sentence in which you described it.

[niqaeli]

*weary fistbump*

In my case, it's the fact that winter has fucking come and plants are ALIVE and GROWING and ATTEMPTING TO HAVE SEX IN MY SINUSES and also it's cold and the weather is changing constantly and my joints object.

*shares her Vesper and bone marrow*

[mecurtin]

Your periods get lighter *eventually*. What the doc told me when it happened to me is that the strength of your period is not so much due to absolute levels of hormones, but to their ratio. As their level starts trickling off, you can get the ratio going to, as you say, Titus Andronicus.

I went on the Pill for about 6months, that was enough to put everything in its place.

[nolivingman]

For some of us they get crazy heavier (and more frequent) before getting lighter. But eventually, they GO AWAY FOREVER, and I am here to tell you, that is blissful, bliss that I hope you will experience soon.

[xinef]

This was my experience too. Definitely heavier for a while. The last few were lighter and then blissfully, they stopped. What a relief! Hope you are over the worst by now.

[amorettea]

Mine got heavier and I thought, oh well. Then I ended up in the hospital having 2 units of blood because my endometrial hyperplasia was trying to kill me. So if they keep really heavy, have it checked into.

[nenya_kanadka]

And the award for best use of metaphor goes to... :D

Ugh, sorry this is happening, though. Not fun!

[mmegaera]

Mine kept getting heavier and heavier and more and more frequent -- until they suddenly stopped. Sorta the opposite of tapering. Then, 18 months later, I took the wrong (at least for this purpose) kind of antibiotics (which said, on the label, that they would mess with your hormones and not to rely on non-barrier BC whilst on them, but did I know that's what it meant by that? -- nooo...), had one last whopper with some of the worst cramps I've ever had, which is saying something, and that was it, almost five years ago now (yes, I went back to the doctor, no, I was otherwise completely normal).

Hormones are very strange and unpredictable things. So are antibiotics, for that matter. Why on earth something to cure a sinus infection thought it had any business whatsoever messing with my reproductive system, only it knew. Good grief.

[17catherines]

I adore how you describe this, even as I sympathise, utterly, with the awfulness of it.

May I draw these to your attention? I was in a similar state to you last week, and they made me giggle hysterically for far too long.

Not even remotely safe for work, by the way.

http://harebrained.myshopify.com/

love

Catherine

[dejla]

I have been in that situation. I bore with it for two years. I turned out to have endometrial cancer. I do want to scare you -- I want you to go to the doctor "like yesterday" and get it checked out, just in case.

Please.

[commodorified]

If it recurs, I will. So far this is a statistical blip of 48 hours of wtf inside an unusually but not unprecedentedly heavy cycle.

[dejla]

Okay. That works.