I was due for my period yesterday but it's a no-show (I have 28 day cycles on average)...just some brown discharge when I wipe. I don't really know when I ovulated (but I'm sure I did, because I've been MISERABLE this month)...I decided to try to relax and not to track everything obsessively or temp because it was stressing me out too much (the drawback of this being that it's like trying to see in the dark when you start having weird post-ov things happening). Anyway, I woke up a few days ago with cramps and was like, "huh. It seems like I've been having a lot of cramps lately". So I checked my Ovuview app (because I do still chart some things, like mucus if I notice any, or cramps). Sure enough, by then I'd already tracked cramps for five days.
Looking back on my tracked cycles, I've only ever had ONE (that I tracked) where I had cramps before my period for more than a couple of days (that time, I tracked 5 days of cramps, and some of those days included outright spotting and lead into a period). I usually get what I call "warning" cramps 2-3 days before my period.
So...this is really weird, for me. I'm going to be 37 in a month, and I know cycles change as you age. I did a FRER a week ago tomorrow (negative) because I had it lying around and felt like POAS. I can't bring myself to test again, though, because now my body acting weird has gotten my hopes up (again) and I hate to be crushed by a negative (again). I'm still TTC my first kid and it's been 2 years now, so...yeah.
I guess I'm just wondering if any of you have ever had a cramping spree that lasted longer than a week, and what the outcome was? Even if you ended up with a period, I'd still like to hear about it.
I thought I'd seen everything weird my body could pull to trick me, but I guess I was wrong.
Thanks for reading!
Looking back on my tracked cycles, I've only ever had ONE (that I tracked) where I had cramps before my period for more than a couple of days (that time, I tracked 5 days of cramps, and some of those days included outright spotting and lead into a period). I usually get what I call "warning" cramps 2-3 days before my period.
So...this is really weird, for me. I'm going to be 37 in a month, and I know cycles change as you age. I did a FRER a week ago tomorrow (negative) because I had it lying around and felt like POAS. I can't bring myself to test again, though, because now my body acting weird has gotten my hopes up (again) and I hate to be crushed by a negative (again). I'm still TTC my first kid and it's been 2 years now, so...yeah.
I guess I'm just wondering if any of you have ever had a cramping spree that lasted longer than a week, and what the outcome was? Even if you ended up with a period, I'd still like to hear about it.
I thought I'd seen everything weird my body could pull to trick me, but I guess I was wrong.
Thanks for reading!