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[hissyfit.livejournal.com]

ow. i keep cramping up like i'm going to start my period. i keep having the usual pre-menstrual symptoms that i have, but then it just goes away. this has happened every month for about 3 or 4 months now, every time i should be having a period, but nothing happens. i was going to get some parsley tea today, but i didn't have a chance to get out to the store. i've tried visualizing my period starting, but that hasn't really worked either. bleh. this is gross.

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[winterknight.livejournal.com]

are you on the Pill?

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[hissyfit.livejournal.com]

nope. i quite about a year ago because it was just messing me up too much. i don't need it for birth control. it was giving me recurrent yeast infections, messing with my moods pretty severely, and just made me feel yucky.

[winterknight.livejournal.com]

ugh. that doesn't sound too happy. have you tried ginger tea or ginger beer (the real stuff)? that works too, apparently. however, if you're not having a period at all, you should probably get checked out. i don't like the sounds of that at all. your hormones are obviously not in order. :(

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[hissyfit.livejournal.com]

after i stopped the pill, i had 2 regular periods, then i skipped a month, then i had one when i was supposed to, then i skipped 2 months, then i had one when i was supposed to, then i had another when i was supposed to, then i had another 2 weks later and i haven't had one since. the last one was in october, if it was hard to keep track up there. ;) my doctor told me to come to her for a shot if i missed more than 3 months in a row, but i want to do it a natural way.

i think i'll go get that parsley tea tonight.

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[winterknight.livejournal.com]

i'm trying the Chasteberry (Vitex) to even my cycle out. there's a thread about it further down. did you check the emmenagogues in www.sisterzeus.com?

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[hissyfit.livejournal.com]

i'll go look at those. thanks. :)

I'm confused

[writer-lilies.livejournal.com]

I don't enjoy my period. Not to be saying that you guys do, but if mine doesn't come, I celebrate. (I'm a virgin anyways so it's not pregnancy) I don't think I've had one in like a month or so and I'm doing the same things you are. Cramping and getting all the symptoms, but they go away. And is it safe to force your period to start?

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[hissyfit.livejournal.com]

it's not safe to NOT have your period. it's been about 4 months since i've had mine, so i need to have one. if you haven't had your period very long, then it's not a big deal if it doesn't come often, but i started mine 7 years ago and it STILL isn't regular.

i have polycystic ovaries, so every time i don't have a period, another cyst permanantly adheres itself to the outside of my ovary. the longer this goes on, the more likely i am to have several kinds of "woman cancer" (i.e. uterine, breast, and cervical) and the less likely i am to be able to bear children. it runs in the family, so if there's any history in your family you should be checked out.

it's not that i necessarily like my period, but it means that everything is healthy and running smoothly inside of me. i like that.

Aaaaaaah

[writer-lilies.livejournal.com]

I see then. Thanks for clearing that up. I was sitting here like O_o for the longest while I read through some of the posts about people wanting to start their periods. I guess there are very good reason to want it or to be disturbed that it doesn't come when it's supposed to. Sorry if I was like overly naive. ^^;

Hope the tea works. Buh bye
~Tiffany