I definitely don't understand my body anymore, and it's scary to try to sort out what's normal and what's not during this time. My periods have been very light for quite a while now - maybe a year. For instance, my last period started 8 days ago (15th). It started midday with a little cramping. The first thing I noticed was that my back was so stiff I couldn't bend down to pick up a toy from the floor at work (preschool teacher
). Some mucus and red blood. The rest of the day I guess a little bit more came. I keep track in an app on my phone, and I called it "light flow" that day. Saturday and Sunday I noted "moderate flow", but in reality I think Sunday was pretty light too. Monday I had some "spotting". I've had a couple of drops of brown blood in my underwear almost every day up until yesterday. Don't know yet what will happen today. My period app says that I'm in a new "fertile window" (probably not so much
) now, and that my ovulation will happen in 4 days - on the 27th.
If anyone has read my stomach problems thread, you know that I suffer from some issues there. It makes it even more difficult for me to sort out what I'm feeling in the "female department"... It is instestines/stomach cramping, ovulation pain, cramps in my uterus - or what??? Today I feel some weird cramping in the middle of my stomach low, low down. Kind of like where I imagine my uterus would sit (I'm so bad at anatomy...). But why would I have cramps now?
Anyone else confused about their cycle at this stage?