What are irregular periods, and why do we get them? A gynaecologist answers all our most googled questions:
started on the first day of the calendar month, your next period would come on the 29th day of the month.
For your period to be regular you need your hormone levels to fluctuate in a rather intricate, yet elegant, cycle in order to ensure you ovulate on a regular basis and thus have a regular menstrual cycle.The menstrual cycle has two phases. The first is the follicular phase, which starts with your period and finishes at the time you ovulate. It’s the most variable in duration, and is generally around 14 days in length, but if you have a super long cycle it could be several months in duration.
Why would that happen? Because our modern lifestyles consisting of hectic schedules, lack of sleep, restrictive eating patterns and over-exercising are all a source of chronic stress that send signals to our brain to say ‘stop this flogged-to-the-bone body from wasting energy by having a period’. These stressors deplete the body of the energy it requires to make the hormones in the first place.
With HA, the best way to try and regulate your cycle is to try and correct the factors causing chronic stress, such as improving sleep hygiene and decreasing exercise intensity. If you’re found to have PCOS, the same lifestyle changes can help, and the combined oral contraceptive pill may be prescribed as a way of ensuring a bleed at least every few months to stop your womb lining from getting too thick.
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