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Womens cycle
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Call me thick and stuff, but I dont know the monthly cycle :yeees:
I know that you ovulate and stuff, but dont know when! I didnt really take note in PSE lessons and stuff :angel: So can someone tell me/show me a site/info that I can learn from!?!
I know that you come on every month, but I dont know when you ovulate and stuff, I've got '14 days' stuck in my head like do you ovulate 14 days after you've come on?! Im confused :crazyeyes
Thanks :thumb: :flirt:
I know that you ovulate and stuff, but dont know when! I didnt really take note in PSE lessons and stuff :angel: So can someone tell me/show me a site/info that I can learn from!?!
I know that you come on every month, but I dont know when you ovulate and stuff, I've got '14 days' stuck in my head like do you ovulate 14 days after you've come on?! Im confused :crazyeyes
Thanks :thumb: :flirt:
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Oh I dont no! :no:
my 1st ever 1 lasted 10 days! :crazyeyes what a nice surprise.... :rolleyes:
Sure I read somewhere that they should only last for 2 - 8 days...
Mine tend to only last for about 4 days and are always very painful. And I have a habit of coming on at 1am...
If we take day one as when a period starts, this is when the previous womb lining is breaking down, and takes up to 4 days. Without making it too complicated, different hormones come on at different stages, such as Oestrogen, which cause the lining of the womb to build up again- needed so the egg if fertilised would have somewhere to attach. At around halfway through the cycle, an egg is released (around day 14) and the womb lining and remains waiting for a fertilised egg. If no egg arrives, then the cycle restarts causing a period.
The main bit is that where I read the time an egg released is determined by the level of the hormones, and as such speeds it along. Which is why it takes longer for some people.
That's the biological side to it anyway.
That's not wierd. I had my first period, lasted around the same as yours...then didn't have another for a year.
When you first start having periods that can be really arregular till they find a pattern, due to all the changes going on. Some people don't reach a regular pattern for years i.e. my dear self. And the way you describe it seems perfectly normal - you're gonna bleed more in the first few days anyway because, well it's the process starting out. As you have less and less, the period will get lighter and sometimes, quite often, you get the manky brown goop at the end. Lovely.
When I had to take the MAP (morning after pill) once, she worked out that I was on the last day of the higher likely period of time of getting period, according to when my last period was. So there is a certain time of the month that a lady has an increased likelyhood of getting pregnant.
Hope that helps - surely the site has some sheets or info? It shouldn't be hard to google info tbh.
Malt x
lol yes - and even more so now I'm on the pill. My periods are shortened to about 3-5 days now, and it is mainly brown goop!