What changed in my cycle in the last two years before it stopped

Started 21 March 2026 · 9 replies · 75 hearts · read 727 times

AbramAmsterdam, NL · 21 March 2026

4 months ago

What changed in my cycle in the last two years before it stopped Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

Bringing this here rather than to the general circle because the specifics change the answer.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

Here is where I am. The medication side has been more or less as described, and the part nobody prepared me for is everything around it: what to say to people, how to plan a week, and how to tell the difference between a thing to endure and a thing to raise.

My prescriber has been fine, genuinely. The problem is that I get nine minutes twice a year and there is no version of nine minutes that covers this.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

HalCambridge, UK

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK

the opening post said something I want to sit with for a second.

I want to slow this down a little. There are four different answers flying about and they are all somebody's real experience, which makes them true and not necessarily relevant to the person who asked.

LeniLeipzig, DE

Building on what the opening post wrote rather than answering the original question.

Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.

CoralieMarseille, FR

I am about four months behind you and I have been dreading exactly this, so thank you for writing it down before I got there.

8me too 5

Birdie BWhitstable, UK

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

MarnieAyr, UK

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

FenellaCirencester, UK

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

Thank you for writing this. I am not going to add information to it. I am going to say that what you have described is very common and very rarely said out loud.

GwynforLlanidloes, UK

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.