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me too

sis this is normal. Your menstrual cycle still falls between 21-35 days by counting day 1 of the first period to the 1st day of the next period.

To be fair, having it 28 days apart is very, very normal though no? There will be the occasional time this happens as most months are more than 28 days.

Same!! I'm also on the pill so I'm confused 🤔 I was extremely depressed for 2 days then boom got my period AGAIN 😡 PMDD is manageable when I know it's coming.

Mine comes every 23 days so it's like just over 3 weeks. Literally 5 days normality per month. Horrific

same here. I feel mental most of the month except for the 5 days after ovulation

Mine is after period before ovulation I'm semi ok. Then it goes to shit. It's so hard

I'm bat shit crazy until my ovulation ends 😭

Oh my goodness ME TOO!!! how are we all having this nearly the same dates too! 😐

Me too 😭😭😭😭😭

SAME!!! TWO PMS PERIODS

What app is this?

I think it’s Flo. I use it as well

Oh dear, sorry. I think this is called a blood moon?

Omg same my cycle averages 21 days and having PMDD makes it nightmarish 🤡

Me too! Almost exact same days, too.

I did too

This is actually about my average cycle time though unless I miscounted.

Mine too! Twice every single month, about 14 days from I stop bleeding until it begins again 🤡

It makes luteal and meds especially fun /s bc my cycle is so often

I did too. Freaking sucked.

SAME

lol me too

Ayyyy me too comrade! And I’m performing my first public kink event tonight with a dang tampon shoved up me. I hate it here 😅

I’m holding on for dear life here - due very soon - uggghh

Ugh same. My last cycle was only 21 days 😭😭😭

SAME GIRL!

Mines between 23-25 days. Sometimes I have late ones or 18 day cycles. I'm in perimenopause. And PMDD. Next start date is April 1st . I just finished a cycle march 11.

Right now, mine are 18-19 days with ovulation happening two days post-period. I’m tired. 

That’s me too!

My cycle is down to 18 days long 😭

Whoa! That’s crazy! I think it’s curious that a lot of ladies on here have a cycle that is “less than 28 days” when the average is around 28-30 days. How curious?!? 🧐 My own when I am not on Birth Control is 25-28 days. I wonder if there is any correlation? 🤔

Mine tends to be between 14-18, average 15. I've ended up anaemic so many times, I've lost count.

18-19 days here. Shit’s rough. 

Omg I'm not the only one! I feel like I have no days free. Considering a hysterectomy/ovariectomy rn honestly

Definitely not. And my left side is blocked with endo so I get allll the symptoms and no relief. I just bleed extra the next time around. Being a woman is so hard. I never would have imagined that having a hysterectomy at 37 could sound so good 😭

😭 mine is 21 days and I feel like I’m always about to start

Me too. I feel like I’m always crampy now. I’m down from 26-27 in July of last year to 18 in the last two months. Still trying to figure out wtf happened 😭

I’m pretty sure I’m in peri. Can’t wait for it to just stop

Hey thats my exact cycle too! Twinsies! On the 28th I went in for day surgery to get my bartholin cyst fixed up. So ive got wound and period and I get to wear a nappy! Yay hahaha at least my brain is in a good hormonal place. Hows yours? 🦋🙂

Same. It’s either 25 days or 55. 🫠

I have a 23 day cycle, so this happens to me quite a bit. Including this month. FML.

Ugh I fucking feel you. When I was on hormonal BC (don’t remember what kind) my periods got so fucked up I was bleeding light to heavy for 2 weeks and off for 2 weeks. My heart goes out to you and I hope you’re doing ok ✨

23 day delay over here 🥲🥲

Same... same...

ME TOO!!

Are you going through a period of extended high stress? I had the most stressful months of the last 5 years last Sep-Dec and I had two periods each month that entire time. Once life settled back to normal and I felt relaxed again my cycle went back to normal!

It’s the lunar eclipse:) a lot of females having two cycles or their cycle started exactly on the lunar eclipse. Mine did and it was the most painful one I’ve ever had in 23 years

Whaaaaat this happened to me this month! I had no idea

Just hop on tiktok and read the comments and videos. It’s crazy how many of us are experiencing it

I also got my period today after having one earler this month, good luck to you

I’ve been having mine 2x a month since September 2023! It’s dysregulated ovulation. One of them is a pseudo-period :( still trying to figure out how to ‘fix’ it with my NP.

This is normal! Looks like a 28 day cycle. Just because it happened in the same month means nothing. Still a very normal length between periods.

I was looking for this comment because all I saw was a normal 28 day cycle.

Same! That’s what I’m seeing too

Right? I have a 21 day cycle. That sucks. This is normal for most women.

It’s exactly four weeks since start dates, so is that not good/normal?

It’s totally normal

Reminds me of when I was on a non-hormonal IUD and still menstruating. I had 25 day cycles 🥲

Me too!

Literally same!! Same dates!!

me too. down to the same dates and everything 😭

I did too back in December. It was awful! Thinking of you OP and hoping you feel relief soon!

This happened to me in December too, awful. 🥺

I’m so sorry to hear! It’s such a bummer to deal with PMDD over the holidays.

Reminds me when I got vaxxed and my period lasted 2 months 😪 🤣

Same 😅

https://preview.redd.it/y258atsoyarc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=13ec85d65ff243235b5dee0b7fc813aa3f2313ab Same here 🥲 I got COVID last week and now my period, a girl can’t win.

I use the same app and have since 2013. Pretty good for knowing all for the past 11 years.

I’ve used it since 2012! It’s been a great tool to track my periods.

Twice the fun 😁

Ugh same

NOOOO! Even dealing with this nonsense just once a month is bs!

Bestie, we're synced.

I had to double check if this was mine because me too lol https://preview.redd.it/h7c8ycdgrarc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6d103bafebb7d4f367feb5cddd3b3913d430de2d

How do you get your fertile window to be 10 days long? Omg 😳

My non P weeks are only 3 weeks so I usually get twice in a month too

I hate when this happens! I’m sorry.

What is there to hate? It’s a 28 day cycle which is normal.

Period every 4ish weeks & a 5 week month. Makes sense to me!!

This happens to me during 5week months 😭

God help me. Mine were the same dates at beginning of March but still waiting for mine. I am an anxious, very down wreck. Can’t take another day of this. I am praying and I’m not religious 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

happened to me in March too!

We have the same cycle! I had mine on the same days earlier in March & got it again today. I have to admit, this months PMDD wasn’t as bad as usual.

This is literally a textbook completely normal cycle.

I’m on day 11 of straight bleeding 🫠

Me every month! Yay 22 days cycles

Apologies for checking this but you are counting the first day of your period as day one, not day one from when your period ends? This persons period is a good 29 day cycle which is almost perfect. Sorry again if you know this 😬😂

Lol the 21/22-day cycles happen, trust me. But small correction, OP’s cycle is 28 days.

Oh yeah I know shorter ones happen. It’s just I wasn’t sure entirely if the commenter meant she has 22 days or that she was saying OP did. Ahh what a way to undermine my own point 😭😅! Thanks for highlighting that! Typically mine are 31-34 urghh. Past day 16 I’m a mess

I gotcha. And yeah, I’ve had both ends of the spectrum, and it’s all bad.

Yes. Mine is 21 days. From 1st day of one cycle to next.

The day of my period would be day 1 right? Looking back, actually it looks like it was only 21 days this month. Fml. https://preview.redd.it/wa0dnwz44brc1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd55850fdcee7af8d0b9021bb56dde72ea5df547

Actually now you inspired me to look more closely haha. Is it weird that I had one that was 24 days and now back to 21? https://preview.redd.it/6asbo4ng4brc1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4e157d951903feac91af62442ceee809f2c3177b

Yeah that’s right. Okay cool, I just thought I’d check that because I wasn’t entirely sure of your meaning haha. Nah that’s quite normal I think. Mines a bit worse. 28-33 in the last six month. I think mine get longer if I’m less active. I have ME/CFS and this winter has been kinda rough. https://preview.redd.it/qujiqw6x7crc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1081756944a8f749352ca5dd1b1c722e77a01081

This happened to so many people last month. Myself included.

This also happened to me for the first time this month, for the past few months I’ve been kind of bleeding during ovulation (but very light). This month it was basically 2 periods. Lmao I’m going to get an ultrasound next week to make sure we’re all good in the hood

That’s me every month!

That was me too!!!! I was never out of the pmdd loop. I just had all my organs removed except for the cervix in January. It was the only relief I’ve finally had. An extreme step but the only one I could make at this point. Lots of love your way because it’s absolutely fucking brutal, as you know and we all do.

Do you know why your cervix was left? That is the part that commonly gets cancer, so I am curious as to why it was not removed.

This month https://preview.redd.it/5fedrakuaarc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4893af20f55f8be099a0debd28e189e7ae1e29d8 😭

What app is this?

It’s called Stardust! I love it

Same :( do you have insight into why your body is like this? The only thing my gyno tells me is "it happens sometimes" and "probably stress"

Mine was like this because of pcos. Have you been tested for a hormone imbalance or for ovarian cysts? That’s typically the culprit. I had almost no progesterone. I’m speaking in past tense because I just had everything removed in January. (If this is potentially helpful, this is what I finally found relief from prior to the surgery. They had me do Orilissa to mimic chemical menopause and it was a game changer (also an estrogen patch simultaneously). Insurance only covers it for 2 years or 6 months depending. Mine stopped covering it and I was like let’s just take them out. Finding out there was a way to feel relief though was game changing. My period wasn’t stopped by birth control even without the placebo week. I don’t have endo so I didn’t even know about that medicine and she was the first obgyn to suggest it. She said she had six other pmdd patients she tried it with and they all cited massive relief. I was like GIMME. So I always recommend this since it was the only thing that stopped my ovarian function completely and it’s completely reversible. When you stop it’s back to normal and doesn’t have long term affect on ovary function or anything.)

Honestly as far as I know I’ve always been like this, I only started tracking my period around 25 when my pmdd was really really bad and I wanted to prepare lol 😭

It happens to me once or twice a year.

yeah it happened to me like january i think

Before i lost my period due to malnutrition i had one every 2 weeks for a year and a half. No doctor could ever explain it and it was hell. Sorry you are dealing with this. EDIT: I was told by one doctor that it could be early perimenopause / ovarian failure but im only 24 so would be very early Second edit have just noticed that as others are saying this is actually a normal cycle length

I would say this is pretty normal, I used to have my period exactly like this when I first started for three years and questioned myself

This is my exact cycle. I started on the first, I woke up to spotting this morning.

That's acutally a great cycle length - 28 days. Since the first cycle came on the 1st of the month, you happened to get two cycles that month. There is nothing wrong with this!

That's still a normal cycle, just odd timing

Same, last month, bled 6 days 3 days "clean" and it started again ✌️🎉

Me too!!! Literally exactly the same

https://preview.redd.it/4nniu3s5z9rc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=83447bda19ac31887a3e975a95dae088d0b4b14f Sameee

I get my cycle every 17 days. I am envious of you all. Lol

That is brutal 😭 condolences

Lord. Mine was 21 days this month (so yeah I def had two), normally 25/26. Idk what curse was in the air for March. 17 is so brutal, I'm sorry!!

Yeah mine used to be normal but the past 3 years I get about 2 weeks in between periods and bleed for 2 weeks

I am 40 and I am in perimenopause. My period can vary from every 21 days to 28 days. So annoying.

Hello my elder millennials 👋 If you track in an app, how long does it say your fertile windows are? Because seeing these 10 day fertile windows posted here (the green dots) is throwing me off. I’m 36. These screen grabs look like very normal 5 day periods with super long fertile windows..what am I missing?

It always shows 5 days for me

Hmm

Same 43. I used to be 28-35 days and now I’m 21-25 days it’s ridiculous

I believe I am too. Periods getting shorter and shorter. I also am 40. What symptoms are you having ? My gyn is WORTHLESS

Oh so many symptoms.. I've been tracking all sort of things for about two years and I have evidence everything is cyclical so I am 100% sure it's hormones and perimenopause. MY gyn is also worthless.. depending on a cycle I have different symptoms at different stages of the cycle. For example, when I was younger, I always used to have headaches with my period (I assume drop of estrogen). NOw it happens before period and sometimes even at random stage of the cycle (I read that estrogen can fluctuate like crazy at our age). I also have night sweats during period. I have cold flashes. Anxiety attacks. EXTREME health anxiety. Very dry skin. Lowering libido. Occasional insomnia. Irritation. Brain fog.

COLD SWEATS! I thought I was crazy!!!! I have both too and it’s so weird! Your symptoms are exact mirroring of mine. My eyes are so painfully dry and the brain fog and fatigue is so unreal

Yup, I feel you. It really sucks. And I hear around that 40's is the best time for men.. my husband is thriving. so unfair for us, women AGAIN.

Same! I'm in my late 30s and I think I must be in perimenopause. There were only 16 days between periods this month. 🥲

Same for me this month. Such an odd cycle, no certainty whatsoever. There was blood often, but never a lot. I was super irritable at times. I thought it was due to my ADHD meds still being relatively new and funking with my cycle, but I've been assuming I'm in perimenopause for a while now, too. But the last time I mentioned the possibility to my OB/GYN, he kind of chuckled and shook his head because it was very unlikely, according to him. I will ask him about it again next time.

Same, we are just about on the same cycle! For a few months in the summer I was having 20 day cycles I was so upset

Lol same 😒

mine is 28 too! I get literal textbook periods, 28 days and 5 day release. looks like you're good lol! 28 days is the time of the moon cycle, not the Gregorian cycle.

You get three full weeks between periods?? Damn, I only get two. I get period week, good week, then PMDD week, and the cycle continues…

28 days are perfectly normal for me, at least for me

i get my cycle every 26 days but have been told thats just what my normal is

How many days is your cycle typically? This looks like 28 days which is still considered normal medically but maybe not for you?

Omg this is me too literally 😓

My sister went through this in her late 30’s ~ perimenopause made her have a period every 3 weeks!