WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for October, 1999: Re: abnormal periods

Re: abnormal periods

From: Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 28 Oct 1999 12:49:49 -0500 (CDT)

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At Wed, 27 Oct 1999, lorraine wrote: >
>I have a question aboutmy periods. I am 37 years old. I have 4
>children. About 1 year after my last child was born, (he is know 2), my
>periods started coming a little closer together. They werent as regular
>as before. My obgyn put me on a hormone for 1 week, which worked for
>about 3 months then it went back to a shorter cycle, which he dissmissed
>as me being in my late 30s.

OK. Could be.

>Which is fine
>except for just recently I got my period on Sept 1st, and
>then nothing until Oct. 8th I was using the restroom and
>noticed a very, very small amount of light pink blood, but
>that was it, nothing until Oct. 24, then I started my period. I did
>take a pregnancy test and it was neg.

Cycle changes can occur at any age. When cycles are this variable, it may be normal variation at a point in time. If it persists, blood tests and an endometrial biopsy may be necessary to determine exactly "what's going on". This is very common and rarely a "problem".

>Also
>about 3 months ago, I was in alot of abdominal pain, and
>my family doctor thought it might be my appendix, so he
>sent me to the hospital for an ultrasound, which showed my
>appendix to be fine. So he concluded that it could have
>been a cist and it burst and the liquid from the cist caused
> the pain. Anyway I really want to know what to do, if
>anything, or is this just something women go through?
>Please help. Thank You.
>Sincerly,
>Lorraine Clemmons

D.N. hit it right. It sounds like mittleschmerz, pain in the middle of the month from the rupturing of the "cyst of ovulation".

--
Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. FACOG, FACS
Great Neck, New York

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