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This isn't something I generally talk about publicly but I need to get it off my chest and [personal profile] jetpack_angel is at work.

I had my first period in the fall of 1984 when I was eleven. I was one of the first girls in my class to get it.

When I was sixteen my doctor put me on Ortho tri-cyclen, a hormonal birth control that has been around since almost the beginning, due to a heavy, long and irregular cycle. My periods, from the very first, were anywhere from twenty-eight to thirty-five days apart, lasted anywhere from seven to fourteen days and I had to change my pad every hour or I'd overflow, sometimes I ended up overflowing anyway (it was so bad that all of my panties were stained) and nighttime was the worst. If I could have worn hospital grade pads, I would have. As it was, I was wearing the thickest and longest ones available. And yet, I always overflowed my pad.

So, my doctor put me on The Pill, with my mother's consent even though she was concerned about the risk of cancer. Despite the near constant headache (at first), though luckily not migraine level, I loved being on The Pill. The benefits were/are awesome: improved skin (I had a real problem with acne at that time) and knowing exactly when and for how long my period would last.

Since my doctor said that once my hormones settled my period should regulate, I heard when I turn eighteen I'll magically have a regular period, I stopped taking the pills shortly after I turned eighteen, at the end of a cycle like you're supposed to. Only, it wasn't regular so when my next appointment came around, I asked for a renewal of the script.

When I was twenty-one, during the time I was with Vic's father, I became unemployed and couldn't renew my script at the end of that year. Vic was conceived around that time.

When she was two, I went to the doctor for a well-check and mentioned I'd like to go back on The Pill (still wasn't regular and I was twenty-four). The doctor put me on Desogen, which he called a 'mini-pill' and I believe is usually prescribed for women who are pre-menopausal.

From that I went to Yazmin but it was affecting my life by giving me near migraine level headaches. When I told my doctor, a new one that was actually an ob/gyn*, it was determined I suffered from premenstrual dysphoric disorder and was then put on Yaz. I loved it because I continued to not have a period, and when I did it was more like spotting and I could wear a pantyliner.

Then in 2008 I was fired and since I no longer had health insurance I couldn't get my script renewed. It took a couple of months but my periods came back.

I was over thirty by then and my periods were fairly regular. Every twenty-eight to thirty days, lasting for four to five days with the second and third being the heaviest.

Until now.

I had my last period during my first week at my new job. I marked twenty-eight days from the first and last days of my period on the calendar and yet here it is the 20th and I have yet to start this month. Makes me wonder just how close to menopause I truly am.

See, my mother went through menopause at forty because after I was born she had her uterus and one ovary removed and that ovary had quit working. And her mother is of a generation that doesn't talk about that type of stuff, except maybe with a doctor, so we have no idea when she went through it. We know she has to have by now because she's over eighty. Based on this information, my doctor thinks I'll go through it anywhere from forty to sixty. Yeah, I know not really helpful, but since they base their guesstimate on when the mother and maternal grandmother entered menopause they really can't narrow it for me.

I'm hoping I start this weekend, unless I am in menopause which... I'm not sure how I'd feel about that. On the one hand, no more periods, so yay! On the other hand, I'm still holding out hope (how ever faint it is) that I'll get married again and have another baby.

*The doctor I had been seeing was a GP and I'd been seeing him since I was a kid. When I told him I hadn't had a period in several months he didn't seem concerned. In fact he told me to not worry about it. The new doctor told me he was willing to run some tests to find out why. He told me I shouldn't worry but knew I would. Turns out nothing was wrong. He thinks I'd been on The Pill so long that my body just stopped thickening my uterine lining. He also said he could make me have a period if I really wanted one. I told him I'm okay with not having one, just so long as there wasn't a medical reason (I thought I was going through premature menopause) for me not having one. Back to text
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