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[sherryillk]

First post of the new year, and only four hours in.

It's 2014, which if I believed in Chinese numerology, it's doomed to be a cursed year since it's year 14 (otherwise known as certain death). Yay. It's a good thing I don't believe in that crap. But even though I don't, I got to admit, getting married on 1-3-14 would be pretty romantic (roughly translated, life together, death together). I imagine there are a fair amount of Chinese people getting married in a few days...

Anyway, enough talk about the new year... That sort of stuff always makes me a bit depressed, the way birthdays do, since they mark the passage of time and the inevitability of me getting old and closer to the end... Yeah, not a road I particularly want to go venturing through tonight. :\

But something curious did happen to me tonight. Since it always seems like the day begins after you've gone to bed and woken up, I still feel like it's December 31, 2013. But my period started today, which makes it weird. Never in all the years since my period started, have I ever had two periods in the same month. But I did have on at the very beginning of December (3rd? I think...) and now another one is upon me. And since it still feels like December, it feels like they've happened twice in the same month. Sure, it started an hour after midnight so technically it didn't but it still feels like it. And it feels weird.

Objectively, I know this is possible since you don't actually get your period once a month exactly... I think the cycle is 28 days so technically it should be possible. And yet it's never happened to me. Sure, it's been a bit of a rolling date, late a few days, early a few days, early a week, late a week, that sorta thing, but outside of those rare occurrences, I'm a regular type of girl. It's always managed to be late or early to the point where I almost always start plus or minus a day of the day it started the last month. That's how it's managed to shift itself from mid-month to late in the month to now early in the month. And now it's finally shifted so it's in the same damn month.

And while technically it isn't, I wonder about next month. There's 31 days in this month again. If I've started on the 1st, then I'll almost certainly start my next period at the very end of this month, this time it won't be technically in February (not unless I'm that late). And then it'll be even more freaky and weird than it is now...

I feel like this shouldn't bother me. This probably happens to a lot of women. It's understandable, and natural, and it's not like I'm missing periods or they're happening two weeks apart from each other. That would be much more alarming. But still, it does bother me... :\

There's something about feeling shitty and crampy twice in one month that just sucks. But it's not like anything I can say or do will change. I'll just have to wait until it shifts again to the point where this doesn't happen anymore... And now I definitely have to get to bed -- I want to head off those cramps that are sure to come and hopefully I won't reach my daily limit of ibuprofen tomorrow that I end up suffering through the end of it...

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[yoshikochan.livejournal.com]

:O I've been on birth control for about a year now, and I love it. It's amazing knowing exactly when your period is coming, and it's so short! It's a four week cycle so it keeps you artificially in that 28 days. (I'm on it because I was spotting randomly during the month, and I have a tiny fibroid which is probably what's causing it. I don't actually know if the birth control is stopping the fibroid from growing... it's just so great to know when your period is coming, and it really does help with cramping.) ^^;; Anyway... I'm recommending it to women who have issues. Though it actually sounds like you're pretty healthy, just freaked out about it. ^^;;