Menstrual cycle and the pill

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

Is it possible you're hypothyroid? My very regular period has changed right

along with my thyroid levels since I developed Graves' and then started

treatment, with much farther apart periods while I was hyper and periods at

two-week intervals with tremendous cramps and flooding while I was hypo. When I

became less hypo, they went to 21 days apart. and I was able to argue to my endo

that I was still hypo, despite OK lab values, based on my periods still being

too close together.

Do you ovulate? It almost sounds like there'd be no time. There are tricks to

stimulate ovulation, like sleeping with a dim light for three days midcycle and

in darkness the rest of the time. I'm not sure if you;d have any look in a

two-week time frame, though.

Certainly getting your mineral balances right would help. Can you get blood

tests done to check? Personally I'd try other means before taking the pill, as I

attribute the old (stronger, 1970s) birth control pill with making me hypo to

begin with.

Bet wishes,

B.