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So I asked on Yahoo Answers under a pseudonym, but the question was deleted after a week or so...I looked in rules and guidelines and figured it might have been because of its mature nature, but then I found like an entire category for sex questions so Iunno. Anyway, with no option to ask strangers anonymously, I turn to you guys. xd

My...girl things...have always been odd. They started out really heavy, really long, and really far apart. Over the next eight years or so, the last part changed until they were more often about a month apart than three or six ( crying I miss them being far apart), and the other two gradually improved, if only slightly.

However! For the past few months, instead of going roughly [2 weeks on] [4 weeks off] [2 weeks on] [4 weeks off] like they had been going for a while until then, they changed: [1 week on] [1 day off] [1 week on] [1 day off] [1 week on] [1 month off]...figures are approximate and may vary by a day or two; in particular, the [1 day off] is apparently more like 1-4 days.

I have no idea what's going on, and normally it's more obnoxious than worrying but every so often I have panic attacks about it...of course, that may very well be just the fact that I panic about everything on occasion, but I do know that if it weren't for the [1 month off] part, I would probably freak out, really badly...and it's only happened twice so far, so for all I know, the break may have been abnormal for my "new cycle". Or the strangeness itself may be abnormal and it'll go back the way it was. I sure hope so.

My diet has not changed significantly. The only medication change I had anywhere near that time was going off the clonidine, which a) I'd only been taking for a few years, b) has nothing to do with girl stuff (it was supposed to make me stop twitching), and c) I'm pretty sure did not happen close enough to the onset of this weirdness, otherwise I probably would remember taking note of it.

For a period of about six to nine months ago, I had numerous blood tests; something like this should have showed up, especially since the blood tests were for the sole purpose of determining whether or not there was something wrong with my girl cycle (nothing ever came up).

My one and only theory is that I was very irregular during the first eight years because I was stressed out a lot, especially in the later half of that, and they eventually realigned themselves to correct for the consistent disturbance factor; now that I'm less stressed from day to day, it needs to readjust...I hope it doesn't take eight years again. But aside from not knowing whether that's remotely near "how it works", the timing is off; I was relatively low-stress for somewhat longer than this has been happening, and my stress levels have picked way back up lately and no change.

It's not the company I keep; whether or not I believe in all that stuff about cycles syncing based on who's around (I don't), I definitely graduated from my all-boys school and entered my all-girls school at times completely independent of this.

Nothing else has changed, except for the cycle. They're just as heavy as always (although I can't quite tell, but they may even be infinitessimally lighter), and I'm not experiencing any odd symptoms or abnormalities, nothing else that I haven't had before.

...I don't want to hear anything like "This is really serious. Get to a doctor. Now." Even if it is, I don't want to hear it; it will only cause me a lot of panic I don't have the ability to deal with. If you think it might be something horrific, please emphasize the "might"...I know it's probably an immature thing to say but I really can't handle any assertions that I have some deadly- sudden-onset blood disease and am probably going to die in the next three days, regardless of whether they match the symptoms...

All I want to know is if this is completely unheard of, and if not, where I can find things such as FAQs, forum threads, anything that could provide me with possibilities (or better yet, ways to lower the effect by myself, without requiring elaborate herbal compositions or Olympic-flavor yoga poses) without scaring me to pieces. Or perhaps if anyone here is having anything similar, or has had it in the past and it turned out to be no big deal...

Tell me I'm not alone. And tell me I'm not dying.

I was on BC once. Stopped because it seemed to aggravate some of my emotional issues sweatdrop Ever since I was like ten and first learned of the existence of...it, I've always hoped to eventually find a way that'll stop them completely (and with this whatever-it-is going on, added bonus: I'll never have to worry about them coming back every week xp ), but they insist they won't give me anything like that till I'm at least 21, and now I'm not sure if everything would have the same exacerbating effect or if there are different kinds...

Yeah, I've only ever been on one...I have no idea what it was called (all I know is it was little, round, and each week was a different shade of blue), but hopefully I'll get the chance to try something else. Now to wait two years...

No, it's all pretty much exactly as it was beforehand. That's what's so strange about it...the schedule is the ONLY thing that's changed. O.o

Okay, I did not know that happens..