14 Jun
Denise, 48. Right, I need to get this out because I feel like I'm going slightly mad. My periods have become completely unrecognisable. I'm talking soaking through in an hour on day two, then nothing for six weeks, then arriving out of nowhere on a Tuesday when I'm wearing pale trousers at work. I have a bag in my desk drawer now like I'm fifteen. It's humiliating and I hate that I find it humiliating but I do. I've started keeping a calendar because my GP appointment is coming up and I know from experience that if I walk in there and say "my periods are all over the place" she'll nod and send me away. Last time I came out with literally nothing. So this time I want actual dates, actual flow notes, the lot. Day one, day two, how heavy, did I need to double up, how wiped out I was afterwards. The fatigue on heavy days is something else. I made lentil soup last week because I couldn't face cooking properly but I knew I needed something with iron in it. That's where I am now. Planning meals around blood loss. Never thought I'd be typing that sentence. Anyone else tracking this stuff before appointments? What did you actually write down that turned out to be useful? x