7d ago
53 and my cycle has basically become a surprise party I never asked for. Last month it showed up nine days early and just... didn't leave. Like a houseguest with no social awareness. I've started keeping notes on my phone because I got tired of sitting in the waiting room trying to reconstruct the last three months from memory and coming up with basically nothing useful. Now I log when it starts, how heavy, whether I'm going through more than one pad an hour on the bad days. Grim to track but I feel like I actually have something real to bring to my OBGYN now instead of "um, it's been a lot?" The bloodwork piece is the part I'm trying to get my head around before my next appointment. I want to ask specifically about iron levels because the fatigue has been genuinely unreal. Like I'll sleep eight hours and wake up feeling like I ran a marathon in my sleep. I don't know if that's the blood loss or hormones or both and I'd like an actual answer instead of being told it's just stress. On heavy days I cannot cook anything that requires more than one pot and fifteen minutes. Lately it's been a lot of rotisserie chicken pulled apart over whatever's in the fridge. Not glamorous. But I'm upright and fed and that's the goal. Anyone else building a case file for their doctor? Curious what you're tracking.