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matt, you make me laugh. 
Whoa…its been two weeks, and you still havent had your period? I’m not entirely sober, so hopefully I read the dates right…
Are you sure you’re not pregnant? I know it sounds silly, but even “outercourse” has a slim chance of causing pregnancy…if you’ve been with a guy at all lately, maybe it is a concern!
You’re a student, right? Any amount of stress can be enough to throw you off, although after two weeks…I don’t know. Have you changed a diet or other lifestyle thing lately? Suddenly switched from ragaving carnivore to total vegetarian? Started drinking buckets of coffee every 2 hours? Getting enough sleep?
I would go see a doctor, but take a pregnancy test if you’ve been involved AT ALL with a guy lately - I don’t want to scare you, but as I said, it could happen. That 57 days I mentionned earlier…I had just started going out with my boyfriend, and pregnancy was a real fear. I think that worry dragged things out a lot longer than it should have. I wasn’t pregnant, but it was something to think about.
You could just be like me, and have a really wacky period. Mine acutally got WORSE for regularity as the years passed, and thats the main reason (initially) why I went onto the pill. I just couldn’t handle the stress of “what if something’s wrong with me?” I have had no problems since, except for side effects which at this point (its been 3 years) I feel that I can still live with.
I’ll stop babbling now.
Good luck!
The likelihood of my getting involved with a guy (or being involved with one) is zero, so I don’t have to worry on that score, thank goodness.
As for stress / lifestyle changes, I’ve been getting enough sleep. I don’t drink a kajillion litres of coffee at all, and I’ve not changed my eating habits at all. Don’t know what it could be. I will see my doctor next week, as mentioned.
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Just FYI, if you ever do decide to go on the Pill—you can actually control when you want to have your period by not taking the “green pills”–the sugar pills you take as a placeholder. You just start a fresh pack of pills—voila! no period!
I’m so glad I’m done with that mess—it has it’s own problems, but menopause has it’s pluses!
Funny, I only skimmed ultress’s post and thought it was sincere at first. Why should women feel ashamed about ordinary bodily functions?
Anyway, I also like being on the pill. Regularity, no cramps, and lighter periods.
Well, at one point in time I went 10 months without my period… this was at a time in my life when 6 months between periods was the norm. So then I start taking the pill. First I have to have an ultrasound done on my uterus to make sure there’s nothing visibly wrong with my ovaries, then after they found out that there’s nothing visibly wrong, I went on the pill… It was a miracle for me until about a year and a half into the situation: apparently my body had gotten used to it or something, 'cause I had my period for 3 weeks straight one month, then stopped taking the pill altogether 'cause it just got too expensive. It’s been about 5-6 months since then, and my period is becoming increasingly irregular and heavy, which bothers me. When I can afford birth control pills again, I’m gonna go back on 'em. It’ll be an added bonus for me now. For some reason I really wasn’t having sex on a regular enough basis to make it convenient for me to be on the pill when I was on it. Oh well.
mnemosyne, you had me worried there when you mentioned 57 days. :eek: Glad it finally showed up for you, though.
Thanks for the info, Dolores Claiborne. That’s jsut about what I remember from sex-ed cllasses at school… the stuff about the Pill and placeholders, anyhow. But what I don’t really
understand is the effects on yur body if you decide not to have a period for a month, for whatever reason. Does it screw up your bodily functions? Or let’s say you deicde not to have your period when you finish your pack of pills, so you don’t take the sugar pills. But a week later, you decide that it would be a more convenient time to have it… say, you were away on a trip or something and it wasn’t really convenient. Can you do that? (just wondering)
chula, I have no idea whether ultress’ post was sincere or not… certainly seemed so at the time. I think we’ve all taken it that way, at any rate.
Mirrored Indigo Shadows, it certainly seems that your body went from one extreme to the other. 10 months without your period, with 6 months between them being the norm… wow. But then later on to have it for three weeks straight? :eek: It’s true that the Pill is expensive, as well. But if people can afford it and that’s what they want, then good for them.
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??? I definitely screwed things up in that last post. :o
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The whole manipulating your period with pills stuff only works well if you’re on a pill with consistent dosages throughout the month. Try that with a triphasic pill (like OrthoTriCyclen) and you’re likely to give yourself a lot of spotting and breakthrough bleeding. Period manipulation with a triphasic requires a couple months of planning and manipulating two packs of pills, so it’s not as simple as just skipping sugar pills. And yes, you can safely delay your period a week (or have it a week early) or you can equally safely skip it altogether for a month or two.
I just wish I’d known all that my first couple of years of college. We had a big round of tests and papers every four weeks or so, and I was always a huge pile of PMS and cramps while I was trying to get ready for the academic onslaught. And we won’t even discuss finals week.
As for naturally going 56 days with no period, it’s really not so horribly unusual to skip a month. I used to do that a few times a year when I was a teenager (trust me, there was ZERO chance of pregnancy at that time) and that’s slowly tapered off. At first it was 3 or 4 times a year, then once or twice a year, then every year and a half or so.
Heh. As a housekeeper (dang recession), I’ve never attempted to do that…but it’s not a bad idea for those really annoying guests. Too bad I want to remain gainfully employed.
Again, as a housekeeper: it happens. Not as often as you might think, but it’s never really unexpected. It doesn’t mean we won’t pull a face when we glove and throw your sheets in biohazard bags for the laundry guys, but none of us are going to worry about it, either. Besides, all the other housekeepers where I work are female. We all know what it’s like. For the most part, we won’t point you out to everyone else who works there for it.
Flam– CrazyCatLady hopefully answered your question. I actually had not done it before, but was informed by my doctor that I could. I was on Ortho-Novum for years…
I woke up the morning of the first day of the bar exam to my period. Totally sucks.
Tibs.
Thanks for the info, CrazyCatLady. I think it’s natural to have irregular cycles when you’re a teen, though. Doesn’t mean I ever had a BIG deal over it then, but from talking with friends back then, it happens.
And… after skipping a month, it finally decided to show up in the middle of Awana, no less. Good thing I wore black pants and had containment products (
let’s just say…) at the ready.
Don’t know what made me so stressed out last month, either. Couldn’t have been the news that my dad was going into early retirement because of office politics at his workplace. (his boss apparently thought that Dad should be on the “early retirement” end of things after one of Dad’s former employees embezzled a bunch of money earlier in the summer, and they had to cover that loss somewhere. (after he’d worked at the community college for 20-plus years, even) Well, it might have been, I don’t know. But at least it’s here… even if I do bitch about it later to my friends.
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