To not know how old I was when I got my first period?

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I have a new GP and I was asked this at my first appointment. I remember what house I lived in at the time so could say it was sometime between the ages of 10 and 15, but beyond that I have no idea. GP was surprised. Is this something most women remember?

I started just 3months ago and I'm 20!!! A huge anticlimax me no like now I actually have it!

And BF was the first person i told! He as more delighted than me!

August 1st 1977 I was 12 told my df who was delighted and wanted to celebrate. I remember db writing it in his diary - dm to this day has never mentioned periods - think its a banned subject!

I can remember when exactly other than it was a couple of days into a new school year, but can't remember which school year.

I'm sure I discovered in the lower school toilets, which would make it Year 8 but I went on 2 trips abroad in Year 8 and don't remember ever taking any sanitary stuff with me on either so I don't think it can have been that early.

I know I hoped and prayed that I would be someone who had one then didn't have another for a year but I was every 28 days right from the very first one.

Tuesday 24th January 1995, a month before my 14th birthday. During a gym lesson (I remember going to the loo halfway through because of my abdominal cramps, and the vile gym knickers). I think it was lesson 3 between break and lunch, so roughly 12:45 if halfway through the lesson?

I have an amazing memory for total trivia, but struggle to give the current date!

It seems strange to me to not remember within a year or two.

March 1987. I cant remember the exact day. I did remember it for ages, but since then all 3 of my babies have had either a march due date or march birthday, so i have no idea which date is which. I was 11, and my uncle had taken me for italian food. I went to the loo and id started. I was delighted.

Yr 9 so prob14 as not first term as it was beginning of PE and I didn't wNt to miss trampolining club after school so o declined PE teachers offer to sit out of PE once I had sorted myself out with protection from the school office.

Not a clue.

If they start 'late' doesn't that mean you hit menopause earlier, or is it later?

18th Jan 1979, I was 10 and had no idea what it was when I saw the blood in my pants . My Mum gave me a belt and looped towels which were huge! There were no facilities at my junior school so it was pretty grim.

I remember the day really well. My parents had workmen in fitting a new gas fire in our living room.

I'm hoping they'll be stopping soon now!

PlumpingThePartTimeMother Thanks I am struggling my way through a research module in uni right now, and that reply was actually incredible helpful!! Thanks!

I was 12. Noticed blood on my pants at home. My mum gave me some sanitary towels and was very matter of fact. I went to school next day and told my two closest friends. They wanted to know what it felt like as they hadn't started yet. I was pleased that I started before them.

Can't remember the date, but I'd just turned 13 & I was so excited I rang my mum up at work to tell her. God knows why I was so pleased.

April 1987. I was 11. It started on the bus on the way home from an easter camp.

I was 12 & regular from the start, but I can't remember anything else about it. No cramps.

DD is 13.5 & seems unlikely to start any time soon.

I have two memories. I was 12, in between the fist and second hear of secondary school. I remember i had been on holiday with my dad. The only time I had ever been away just with my dad. It was the day we were coming home and it was quite heavy. I was wearing White cycling shorts and think it may have leaked! Eeek! But I didn't notice until I got home or at least until late in our train journey home.

But I also have a vague recollection of my first period being at my best friend's house either the month before or after.

Not sure which was the first. Spoke to my mum and remember being really nervous as we don't have those conversations in my family. She was lovely about it and I remember her saying she didn't start until she was about 16 and my sister was similar so I guess I was a bit early!

I'd just started secondary school and it was before my 12th birthday so in the first half term. I was in pe wearing one of those horrid pleated skirts but forgot my pe pants and as I was bent over during hockey I noticed a lovely red wet patch. I was mortified! (sept/oct '96 it was)

11 -first year of secondary school. Didn't tell my mum and used folded toilet roll for a few months. She thought I'd started a year earlier when I got kicked in the bits at school (accidentally) and started bleeding, and when I told her she hustled me upstairs and into the bathroom and had a beetroot faced conversation with her back against the bathroom door during which she utterly confused me. She was a paediatrician. ..

Luckily we had "the talk" in the last year of primary school and my mum did leave a "What's Happening to me" book on my bed, so I did know what was happening when it actually did, and worked out that it was actually not my period when I got kicked!

I do think it's a bit odd not to know how old you were or in which school year, though not odd not to know the exact date.

March 5th 1970. I was 11.

23 December 1986. What a Christmas present from Mother Nature. I was 11 years old.
This is quite strange my dd was conceived on 3rd July and she started her periods on 3rd July, so exactly 12 years after her conception.

I was 15 but that's all I remember about it, not where or when that year

I have been asked this a few times by GPs, but mainly gynaecologists (I've seen a few thanks to recurrent miscarriage). The only comment that was made was as I started later I maybe had a bit more time up my sleeve.

I started the week before my 15th birthday. I remember being quietly relieved I started so late. One less hassle.

It will be interesting to see when my DDs will start. I'm sure my experience will have no bearing on theirs.

October 18th, 1990. I was 13.5 and had a crappy day - fell out with my friend, discovered I'd started my periods, then broke my finger at Youth Club. Periods were a bit taboo with my mum, and I often got free samples/ school pads etc because she didn't buy enough. I am determined to be different, have always answered my DDs' questions honestly, and explained periods to the older one last year when she was 8. She is showing no signs of puberty yet, and I expect her to follow the family pattern of being 13/14.

It was a Friday, during Spring/Summer term, when I was 13. Discovered at break time, before double chemistry.

Told "best mate" during lesson. She said I couldn't have started because I didn't have boobs (which didn't turn up for another four years).

Had to think for ages but I think I was 15/6. I was so much later than everyone else and had decided I was never going to get them that I was really disappointed when the blood turned up!

All I remember about the circumstances was that I'd been caught watching Carrie a few weeks earlier by my dad and so was too scared to tell him, and it was taboo subject with my mum. I told my dad six months later when it turned up again and I realised I needed pads.

17 and 23 for my menopause.