4d ago
48 and I genuinely thought I knew my own body by now. Apparently not. My periods have gone completely rogue in the last six months. Used to be like clockwork, four or five days, manageable. Now I have no idea when they're coming, how heavy they'll be, or whether I'll need to change every hour or barely at all. Last Tuesday I bled through onto my work chair. I am a grown woman. I wanted to cry. I've started keeping a little calendar, nothing fancy, just noting when it starts, how heavy each day feels on a rough scale, and whether I needed extra protection. I feel a bit daft doing it but I've got a GP appointment coming up and I am absolutely not going in there empty-handed and getting told it's probably just stress. Also trying to eat more iron-rich food because I am floored on my heavy days, like properly can't-function tired. Lentil soup, tinned sardines on toast, that kind of thing. Easy stuff because cooking anything complicated on those days is not happening. Does anyone else track theirs this way? Wondering what's actually useful to bring to the GP versus what they'll just glance at and ignore. x