Menstrual Problems: Symptoms and Treatment, Spotting, Skipping a Cycle, Emergency Hygiene

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Sporadic Bleeding

Depending on what time of the cycle it is, spotting can be harmless or worrisome.  If it happens while you’re ovulating, no big deal but if it occurs at another time, call your gynecologist.  Some problems that could flare up are: urinary tract infection, endometriosis (inflammation of the uterine wall ling), benign fibroids in the uterus, dysplasia (abnormal cell growth in the cervix), cervical cancer, pregnancy problems, hormonal imbalance (usually due to the wrong dose of birth control pills).

A yearly pap smear is essential because if you have dysplasia, it is not a big deal, but abnormal cell growth can, in some people, lead to cancer.  So if you have irregular spotting, get yourself to the doctor and have things checked out so they don’t become an issue.

Skipping a Cycle

This is every sexually active young woman’s nightmare.  It portends two or three months of unrelenting PMS.  There is a Catch-22 here.  You get stressed when you miss a period and missing a period often comes as a result of stress.  It seems that stress triggers the brain to not get pregnant and that results in the stopping of progesterone, which is a necessary hormone in the women’s cycle.

There are other things that fling you hormones all over the place and they are too vigorous exercise, adolescence (young person is not fully mature), menopause, yo-yo dieting (which really freaks out your hormones), fibroid tumors (painful but not cancer) and endometriosis, which is a very uncomfortable condition, urinary tract infections that hurt a great deal, rarely cancer.  If you feel very uncomfortable about any of this, always see your gynecologist.  Remember, we women are kind of intuitive when it comes to anything important to them.

Emergency Tampons and Sanitary Napkins.

I think all women will or have had a similar situation, which at the time seems unbearable.  Later it will be amusing.  So, you’re out camping with your partner.  It is not time for your period and yet you begin to bleed and you have nothing hygienic to use.  Well, do what you can.  If you are near a town, go buy them but if you aren’t you will need to fold up a tissue or napkin and it will probably last until morning.  Our grandmothers had to use rags that they washed repeatedly, so give it up.  If you can’t get to civilization for longer, tear up a t-shirt and cut it into squares.  So, if you really dislike sanitary napkins, get over it because you are not going to make a tampon that goes inside your unsanitary body, OK?

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