r/menstruation

I've been drinking mugwort tea about twice a day, 1-2 teaspoons, for a couple days to induce my period and it still hasn't come. It's the 33rd day of my cycle and i didn't start taking it till after I realized my period was late. I plan on increasing my dosage but if anyone has any recommendations for dosing or has tried higher dosages then I'd love to hear more about it. If i am pregnant i plan on still drinking the tea as im aware that it can cause miscarriages and Im not down to bear a child.

I haven't noticed any bad side effects, just a relaxing sensation throughout my digestive system and sometimes I can feel it working its way to my pelvis and uterus.

Any information and experience is welcome, judgement towards my decisions about my own body is not welcome((:

I have been menstruating for over a decade now and the pain and sickness has drastically gotten worse. I am always sick before, during and after my period I have horrible menstrual cramps and I feel miserable for about 3 Weeks in a month and I also have pmdd. None of the doctors I have went to have helped, they gaslight me and tell me it's all in my head. Has anyone felt like this and any advice on what I can use or do?

I am desperate and tired of being miserable for so long and always in pain.

Hi everyone I am 18 years old and currently in uni. I’ve had my period since I was in year 12 and I’ve always had quite painful periods for the first one or two days of my period but for the first two years of having my period it was very painful to the point where I couldn’t even stand up but it calmed down for a long period of time. I do not have very long periods. My periods are roughly 4 days at max sometimes five but recently especially my last period I had crippling pain for the first three days (my period was only even four days so my for my whole period ),I was literally bad ridden in the fetal position and I couldn’t even go and make myself food because I felt like I was gonna pass that when I stood up so I couldn’t even take paracetamol or ibuprofen (not like they help) because you need to take it on a full stomach. It’s gotten to the point where I had to cool off work and I couldn’t even do my schoolwork. I’m not sure what to do. I also get quite large blood clots and honestly sometimes bigger than the expected. I know it’s recommended that if it’s smaller than a penny then it’s okay but mine are definitely larger than pennies maybe the size of a long chocolate finger (sorry for TMI). I know they go to diagnosis for these kind of things is that it’s normalised or endometriosis but I only have the symptoms in relation to my period. I don’t experience any other cramps outside of my period so I don’t think it’s endometriosis.

Feel free to give me some tips or any stories that are similar to mine I’m not too fond on going on birth control right now so if anyone has any other ideas LET MD KNOW!!!

(I am a teen, btw.)
For the past maybe… 5 months (about 6 periods, maybe?) I have been spotting between periods. There isn’t any pain, it’s not constant, and it’s not heavy, though it does last for a few days (less than 2 weeks, more than 4 days typically.) Personally, I haven’t thought much about it, thinking that it’s just stress causing it, and therefore I haven’t told anyone. I have been extremely stressed & depressed the past few months, so.

Today is finally the day where I’m a little… weirded out by it? I’m not sure. SHOULD I be more skeptical and get this checked out??? I haven’t told my mom about this since it’s not exactly affecting my physical health.

Edit: My flow is usually slightly heavy? especially the first 2 days. I am not sexually active, nor have I ever been. The spotting is always almost EXACTLY 10 days after my period ends. I am also not on birth control or any medication at all. Idk if this is important to what's going on, but yeah.

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hey girlies! my last period was on march 26-31st. based on my flo app, i was in a fertile window in april 9-15th. i had a safe intercourse (condom and withdrawal before ejac) on march 27th, april 3rd, 4th, 6th, 17-19th (which means i didnt have any intercourse while i was in a fertile window). im writing this on the 22nd of april. yesterday (april 21st) i was experiencing cramps and today i noticed red streaks in my discharge, which turned into greyish/smoky, but pinkish discharge later on. based on my flo app, my period is in 6days. should i be concerned?

I just got my cycle and I’m hungry but want something that won’t make me feel like boo-boo. Any recommendations for what to eat that’s filling and good for cramps? Please no light healthy stuff I’d like to enjoy my meal while I suffer😂💔

Hi! I am currently 19 days late. For reference, my last period was February 26. My cycle days change every month. Sometime it’s 36, 35, 29, 31 days. My Flo app says my average cycle length is 34 days.

We had sex last March 9 and 11 (Based on the app, it’s not a chance to get pregnant), then March 17 which is a day where the app says I have high chances to get pregnant. I am really sure that during those times, there were no chance that he finished inside of me. Since March 17, we had no contact since he lives far away from me.

Right now, my breasts feel so tender and really painful. And I don’t really know if my areolas got darker or what.

I already tested when I was 14 days late and it came back negative. I tested last April 21 and today (18-19 days late), they also came back negative.

What should I do? Is there a chance that I am pregnant?

Hello People :)

I made a Reddit Account for this & I'm super excited about it! I'm writing my Masters Thesis about the Female Cycle & it's Effect on Post-Learning Phase.. & I will need a lot of Women, willing to join my Online Experiment. But that's not the Point yet.. before I work on my Experiment, I need to think about including/excluding Factors. We'll exclude hormonal Birth Control - but that's also not the Point yet! :D

So: How do you track your Cycle? If you're using Apps: which Ones are the most common? I'm a PCOS Girlie, so I neither have a regular Cycle nor do I keep track of it.

You would help Me a lot by recommending Apps/Trackers I should have a Look on, so I can prepare my Experiment more precise.

Also: let Me know if there are active Subreddits I can cross-post this & feel free to share! :)

Special Thanks! <3

My LMP was March 23rd-25th. I had unprotected sex April 16th and April 18th. I was supposed to start my period yesterday and have not. I took pregnancy test on day of missed period, day 2 & day 3 all are negative. What is going on?!? Advice. My periods are always normal and the times I have been pregnant have been a positive result on first day of missed period .

Hi! I’ve made a couple posts over the years when I’ve had off things happen during my period. I’m almost 32 years old, started my period at age 9, have never really consistently been on BC, have never been or tried to be pregnant, and honestly most of my periods are normal, on time, and manageable, at least up until the last few years.

Back in 2023, I had a 4cm complex hemorrhagic cyst that went away on its own, my periods went back to normal after that. Flash forward to this year, for the last few months, my period has been ONLY clots. Like I literally only “bleed” when I go to the bathroom/put pressure. The clots are the size of a panty liner for the first day or two, so I went to my lady bits doc. He did a norma pelvic exam and essentially told me that he knew why I was only clotting and it’s because I have a retroverted/tilted uterus. He thought it was odd because back in 2023 when I had the other cyst, it was more mid/normal. He said the blood was just pooling because of how my uterus has moved the blood just isn’t coming out with gravity. He didn’t explain how a uterus just randomly moved but said it could be something like a cyst but he didn’t seem concerned.

He said to monitor my next couple periods until my pap smear/yearly appointment coming up in June, and if they’re still weird, he would do an ultrasound along with the pap to see if he could find anything to explain why my uterus has moved. Other symptoms I’ve had is frequent urge to pee, constant bloating (that could be from constipation I’ve also had lately), random bouts of nausea/vomiting that come literally out of nowhere, normally a few days before my period, and also this really weird uncomfortable pulling/squeezing sensation around my left ovary (where my other cyst was inside of it), but other than that everything seemed fine during that visit. He has checked me for Endo/PCOS and he doesn’t think I have either one, as that other hemorrhagic cyst I had was the only other one I’ve ever had (to my knowledge/to cause issues), and noted that I don’t have the type of pain level associated with either of those. However I have always had issues with penetration pain (whether sexually or medically), but not consistently.

I haven’t really been able to find much online about this random uterus position shift and what could cause it, or if these symptoms I’ve had are related.

I guess my questions are: What could push my uterus back like that when it hasn’t been until very recently? Would another cyst or something similar cause the other strange symptoms I’ve had? I am just so lost and wondering what in the world this could be? Thank you in advance!

I’m freaking out cause I haven’t had my period since Feb 17th (day one). My cycles are usually like 25 days and 6 days periods. I have been getting them since I was like 11-ish

I’m so worried as this has never happened before. I want to try to get it back at home before potentially heading to a doctor. Any advice 😭

im at a very stressful point of my life right now, im barely sleeping and cant have a single quiet moment in my thoughts. i noticed today brown blood coming out of my vagina. my last period was almost 2 weeks ago and im supposed to be ovulating right now. does anyone know why im bleeding? is this just a one off? its not super heavy but did stain some undies after wearing for about 5 hours (didnt go through to my clothes though)

As I’m getting older, I’m thinking more about fertility health but my periods are so irregular it’s so annoying honestly. Doctors would give me BC but that’s not really solving the root problem.

Since mid 2023 every single month on the first day of my period I have been throwing up. It lasts all day long to the point that anything I eat or drink on the first day of my period comes back up within minutes and I’m not able to keep anything down and my cramps are so bad to the point not even any pain meds I take work either. I went to the doctors a few times about and I got referred for an ultrasound sound because they thought it may be fibroids causing the problem but my ultrasound came back all clear. My doctor then gave me Tranexamic acid but the prescription I was given was a once off prescription and it helped a little bit but I feel like it just masked the problem a not actually fixed it and I have gone back to the doctors and I feel like they don’t want to take me seriously at all especially cus he is a male. Can someone help me even a doctor and tell what this is cus this can’t be normal.

I’m 22 years old. For some context, I moved away from home to a hostel in a different city last November. Until then, my periods had always been regular. After the move, they remained normal through November and December, but in January, I experienced very light bleeding that lasted for about two weeks. In February, I only had one day of spotting, and then my period disappeared entirely for the rest of February and March.

Now that it’s April, I’m experiencing the same very light bleeding I had in January. I’m really confused by these changes; this hormonal imbalance is causing breakouts and weight gain, and it’s quite stressful.

I’m a bit confused about my cycle

My periods are usually regular (30-35 days). My last period was March 7, and I still haven’t gotten my next one, I’m not sexually active.

I recently started going to the gym (not intense) and also traveled last month for like a week. Since then, my period hasn’t come.

I’ve been having my usual lower back pain (which I normally get during periods), but no bleeding. Is this normal or something I should check?

I’m a bit worried, and I don’t think it’s jet lag or intense workouts, so what could be causing the delay?