wowzers

i've been prescribed estelle / diane for my acne. and i've been taking it for about 6 months now. i skipped my period last time. then halfway through the pack after i'd skipped i forgot to take it. so had a fairly light period then. then didn't take it. thought i'd wait until it started the next time and then start taking it again properly.

took a while... but my period finally came. and this is the worst period i've ever had in my whole entire life. one of my friends said that after you skip one the next one can be a real killer. i think i'm suffering at the moment both because i skipped one (and this is my first proper one since then) and also because i haven't been on it for over a month now.

sometimes when it is bad i'm out of action on the second day. this one... i was out of action on the first day and this is the third day and i'm still out of action. taking painkillers and still curled up in bed with severe cramps and crying jags. a few weeks ago my skin started to turn, too. greasy. and getting deep acne that is inflamed which i haven't had in a while. ugh ugh ugh.

guess being on the pill really does help level out my hormones. it is the third day and my flow hasn't even lightened up at all! usually my period only lasts three or three and a half days but it is still going strong today. don't think i could leave the house even if i wasn't all crampy, flow is too strong and i'm passing clots like i've never passed before.. crap. this sucks :-(

if i didn't know better i'd think i was dying or miscarrying or something (the later isn't possible). crap crap crap.

Hmm, the passing clots is slightly concerning. Are they big clots or anything?

Is it possible you may have developed an infection or anything inbetween?

i almost always took my BC consecutively and just had three periods a year, i never found it worse TBH.

If the flow is heavy enough to soak a pad in an hour, you should go to the hospital ASAP because thats a dangerous amount of blood to lose. Also if it stays heavy for seven days or more. And i have been told if you pass clots bigger than, say... a golf ball thats an emergent situation too.

Otherwise its probably just the birth control thing but it still sucks.

Hey. No, it isn't that bad. I'm just a whingy winer :-(
Nowhere near the size of a golf ball.. And a regular tampon needing to be changed right on the three hour mark.

It is just that in comparison to usual (when I have a really light flow for about three days) and only cramps on the second day and sometimes not even that... Being all crampy in bed for three days and needing to get to the bathroom every three hours reeeeeeeally suuuuuucks. Whinge whinge. And there is some gushing when I change things (not a lot) but I'm not used to that and it freaked me out rather. Same with the clots (which by the sounds of it are rather small really)

Now I feel bad for being a whingy winer :-(

(Not because of you - just because most people get it worse than me)

:-(

and i'm horny. how can that happen when i'm so crampy i can barely walk????? hormones make no sense to me. and my bf is so far away... and i miss him so bad right now. would like to f his brains out. and snuggle of course. but mostly make him lie very still and f his brains out. sigh.

Well then. Sounds like some raging hormones (not poking fun or anything)... Well, I hate the bad bad cramps, they can ruin your entire weekend, day whatever.