Questions about Your Menstrual Cycle
Don’t let your period limit your life and lifestyle every month. Once you know the answers to these eight questions about your period, you’ll be able to manage your menstrual cycle forever:
Is it normal to be moody and irritable?
Answer: Do you feel squirmy if you finish a chocolate bar just a few days before your period? Do you cry if you stare at the twilight sky for too long? Feeling squirmy during your period is normal. This is due to your hormones, which can also cause headaches, fatigue, bloating, acne, breast tenderness, and more. These are symptoms of PMS (premenstrual syndrome). Most women, but not all, PMS experience some PMS symptoms before their period. These symptoms are usually mild, but if they feel severe, see your doctor.
How bad can cramps and stomach pain be?
Answer: If the pain is mild, it’s not a problem. But if it’s very bad and severe, see a doctor. Many women and girls experience stomach pain and cramps in the lower back and abdomen for a few days at the beginning of their period. You feel it as muscle pain in the lower abdomen and sometimes in the lower back. These are side effects of the action of a hormone called prostaglandin.
However, for mild pain, there is no reason to worry, but if your pain is very severe, see a doctor. A doctor can treat painful periods even if there is a physical cause.
Is my bleeding too heavy?
Answer: If you feel like your bleeding is too heavy, count the number of sanitary pads you use. More than ten per day is too much. If you are soaking a sanitary pad every hour for several hours in a row, there may be a problem. Also, if your period lasts more than seven days, there may be a problem. Consult your doctor. But it is possible that you yourself are using a lot of sanitary pads and your bleeding is not too heavy, so consider this too. Periods usually start out light, become heavier on the second day, and then gradually stop.
Why is my blood not nearly as red?
Answer: Period blood can range in color from red to dark brown. It may even turn inky black toward the end of your period. Very dark blood indicates old blood that hasn’t been able to leave the body quickly enough, so it’s nothing to worry about.
What are those blood clots I see?
Answer: Sometimes during your period, you will pass blood spots and clots. These clots are usually harmless. You usually see them on days when you are bleeding heavily. If you feel that the amount of them is out of normal range or if you see one that is larger than a quarter, talk to your doctor. Clots can sometimes be caused by a miscarriage, fibroids, or hormonal changes.
Why do I feel cramps in my intestines?
Answer: This is another side effect of the hormone prostaglandin because it causes the muscles in your intestines to contract. This is why you may experience loose stools, diarrhea, and stomach pain during your period.
Why is my cycle irregular and has its own date?
Answer: It would be great if you knew exactly when your period would start.
It depends on when your body releases an egg (called ovulation).
If you don’t ovulate every month, you have an irregular cycle.
It is important to know exactly when your period will start.
Women who take birth control pills will have regular cycles.
Most women will have their period every 28 days. A regular cycle is between 25 and 35 days.
If you want to keep track of your period,
count the first day of your bleeding to the first day of your next period.
It doesn’t necessarily have to be on a specific day of the month,
because if your cycle is 28 days, you will get your period earlier than you expect.
Why did I miss my period? (I didn’t get my period)
Answer: If you’ve had sex,
the first thing that comes to mind is: I’m pregnant.
It could be, but another possible option is hormonal changes.
