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lixxie
12 posts since
Nov 9, 2006

Feb 8, 2008 10:25 AM

Yet another menstruation thread!


I'm 18 years old, turning 19 in a few months. I started menstruating five years ago. My cycle has never been regular on its own (i.e., without the aid of birth control, when it achieves some sort of regularity). One year, I went from January to September without having a period (thankfully, that was before I was sexually active!) -- as you can imagine, this is annoying. I like to know my body works, from time to time! Anyway, I recently had a little epiphany: the year I got my period for the first time coincided with the year I started running. So - any correlation there, do you think?

I've mentioned it to my doctor several times in the past few years, and never any answer! I am thin, but I eat well, and am definitely in the healthy weight range for my height; also, my cycle has stayed weird when I have been both ten pounds lighter and ten pounds heavier than I am now. I run about 35-40 miles/week, but I don't think my mileage has anything to do with it being that it's varied over the years/months/weeks. Sooo, does anyone have a similar experience with their cycle? Does that seem like a semi-reasonable hypothesis?

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spicegeek
825 posts since
Jan 14, 2007
1. Feb 8, 2008 3:27 PM in response to: lixxie
Re: Yet another menstruation thread!

I was a lilttle older starting my period and it was always screwy - heavy and long 10 - 14 days and usually with 7 - 10 days break - this went on for nearly 3 years - I went on the pill and stayed on the pill - when I came off it about 10 years later my period has been fairly regular - a day of 2 drift.


If you are a healthy weight and eating well you could just be irregular - I think if you a little older when you start your period tends to be a mess - at least that what I`ve noticed from friends I have spoken to

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jansd
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Jun 8, 2003
2. Feb 8, 2008 5:18 PM in response to: lixxie
Re: Yet another menstruation thread!

I started getting my period when I was 14, and it never settled down on its own until I was about 28. During all this time I wasn't running much, but I was a dancer, so I was working out a few hours a day, I was reasonably thin, and I ate OK... sort of. I went on the pill a few times, the first before I was sexually active, just to have a regular period (why was that so important?... this was in the 1970's!). In my mid-20s a doctor told me I had polycystic ovaries and that I would have trouble getting pregnant... but eventually everything resolved itself. Your doctor can tell if there is something going on with your ovaries when s/he does an internal exam.

... My point is not to worry about this too much.

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