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So this maybe a stretch but I just need to get this out, thank you for bearing with me. Ok so my story goes like this. I had my last depo shot in July 2014 and now a yr later im still having really erratic and irregular cycles. I got lucky because my period came about two months after the last shot ran out but they have been sporadic its been very annoying. See here is the thing, I was on the depo shot from age 16 or 17 to age 19. At age 19 i got off the depo and switched to bcp and after a mess up with my bcp fell pregnant about 9 months later not quite a full yr. But i didnt have to figure out if my periods were regular because i was on the bcp immediately after getting off depo. There was no ttc at that point so there was no reason not to be. Sorry i got side track, but anyway so far my cycles are super ******** but here goes...
1- dec 23
2- jan 19
3- apr 7 (questionable only a few hrs of actual bleeding but days of brownish sludge following but ill count it)
4- may 1
5- jul 4 (once again questionable only bled for a few hrs but have confirmed o exactly 14 days prior and had 4 days of the brownish sludge afterwards)
I started actually consistently tracking on cd 50 of my 4th cycle and wish to God i had done it earlier and here is why. I have noticed a pattern well it will be better confirmed at the end of this cycle but yet and still there is a pattern, and here goes:
I have a regular cycle followed by an extremely long annovulatory cycle. the longest to date is 78, i previously thought it was 102 because i didn't count the questionable cycle but now i'm thinking it counts. But anyway yeah so like i said a regular cycle or regular for me about 24-29 days followed by an extremely long annovulatory cycle 60-80 days. What im thinking is that my body is close to being completely regulated. During my second cycle I started taking vitex. I took it for about a month and stopped a few days before the start of my 4th cycle. I restarted taking it during the fourth cycle. So what im thinking is happening is that i have a cycle and then my body has the annovulatory cycle for a extended amount of time which is followed by an estrogen bleed the two questionable short periods cycles 3 and 5 which is then followed by a regular ovulatory cycle. Im so thankful i started to finally figured out my pattern. What i noticed is that during the ovulatory cycles, i happen to be taken the vitex and as soon as i stop taking the vitex my cycle then goes back to be annovulatory. This of course is all a theory and i will have to track a few more cycles to know if its correct but one thing is for sure is vitex will be a permenant thing for the whole span of my cycle. Just yesterday i was ready to give up and get on bcp just to get some normalcy and today i think i finally figured it out. What a difference a day makes.
1- dec 23
2- jan 19
3- apr 7 (questionable only a few hrs of actual bleeding but days of brownish sludge following but ill count it)
4- may 1
5- jul 4 (once again questionable only bled for a few hrs but have confirmed o exactly 14 days prior and had 4 days of the brownish sludge afterwards)
I started actually consistently tracking on cd 50 of my 4th cycle and wish to God i had done it earlier and here is why. I have noticed a pattern well it will be better confirmed at the end of this cycle but yet and still there is a pattern, and here goes:
I have a regular cycle followed by an extremely long annovulatory cycle. the longest to date is 78, i previously thought it was 102 because i didn't count the questionable cycle but now i'm thinking it counts. But anyway yeah so like i said a regular cycle or regular for me about 24-29 days followed by an extremely long annovulatory cycle 60-80 days. What im thinking is that my body is close to being completely regulated. During my second cycle I started taking vitex. I took it for about a month and stopped a few days before the start of my 4th cycle. I restarted taking it during the fourth cycle. So what im thinking is happening is that i have a cycle and then my body has the annovulatory cycle for a extended amount of time which is followed by an estrogen bleed the two questionable short periods cycles 3 and 5 which is then followed by a regular ovulatory cycle. Im so thankful i started to finally figured out my pattern. What i noticed is that during the ovulatory cycles, i happen to be taken the vitex and as soon as i stop taking the vitex my cycle then goes back to be annovulatory. This of course is all a theory and i will have to track a few more cycles to know if its correct but one thing is for sure is vitex will be a permenant thing for the whole span of my cycle. Just yesterday i was ready to give up and get on bcp just to get some normalcy and today i think i finally figured it out. What a difference a day makes.
