Lifelong irregular periods

[dissolut.livejournal.com]

I'm one of those people with ridiculously erratic menstrual cycles. Within the past nine years, I've experienced brief regularity, which gets my hopes up, but never lasts beyond five months. It's annoying, especially as I seem to experience long stretches of PMS-y symptoms, such as irrational bad moods, sore breasts and strange sensations in my uterus without any results.

I went for a check-up about a year ago - an ultrasound detected fibroids and other assorted growths in my uterus, but according to the gynae, it wasn't an abnormal occurrence.

At this point, I haven't had it since mid-July. The July period was, itself, delayed by two months. I'm sexually active and always use condoms - if it doesn't arrive by this weekend I will probably purchase a pregnancy test, but I am fairly sure I'm not enceinte, and it's just the old irregularity acting up.

Are any of you in a similar situation? I feel somewhat in need of female solidarity, and hugs. Do you know of any natural methods to regulate your periods? The most obvious option would be for me to go on the pill, but I really don't like the idea of messing around with my hormones, and I've been warned against it because my immediate family history has several incidences of cancer.

Comments

[paperispatient.livejournal.com]

I feel like I pretty much could've written your first paragraph. My cycle would get regular for a little while and then get all wonky again and I'd sometimes PMS for like two weeks, which was awful because I got insomnia, mood swings and depression. I chose to remedy this by going on HBC and stacking it, my thinking being that 1. I'll know when my period will be and 2. if I have to PMS, I can deal with it happening once every three months and for a shorter period of time. Some women who go on HBC and then go off it find that their periods stay regular - I know that happened with my mom, she was really irregular until she went on the pill in her late twenties and ever since going off it when she and my dad decided to have me, she's been regular. So that could be something to think about, going on it for just a little while - but it could also just as easily mess your cycle up even more, and I doubt there's any way to tell what the result would be beforehand.

I don't have anything to suggest with regard to natural ways to regulate your period, I just wanted to offer warm fuzzies and say that you're totally not alone and I feel your pain. :)