Period

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Wondering if anyone could shed a light on this. My periods seem to be all over the place

December - period late
January - period normal
February - period normal
March - period 2 weeks later
March - expected normal period, ended 29th
April- no period, brown blood when wiping twice in one day not heavy enough for a pad
No period since, have taken 3preg tests negative. Not TTC. Clear smear in 2016.

Any help understanding this or advice would be amazing

@scotchpie

Throwing away a test or failing to look at it is gross negligence, illegal and a reason to be struck off the medical register, as well as sued.

They have no legal or procedural right to make a decision to look at it based on dates. If it sent to them, they legally must look at it and report back.

No no no! What is with all this lying to and patronizing women:(

I’m genuinely horrified by all this, because I know the consequences. Nothing has been changed from all the battling, pain and sacrifice of women who found it was too late for them (I’m thirty six and it’s the ten year anniversary of a radical hysterectomy at the end of this month, I felt my children die and thought I was following soon after as I was so ill), then the joy of the rest of cancer treatment. My life is precarious now, I constantly can’t even think of the consequences. I watched other girls experience the same and I saw worse. All because tests were repeatedly misread or ignored and women were lied to and ignored.

It’s so disappointing to know that nothing has changed. Like it was all for nothing.

Please ladies, speak up, insist. A test when needed, no lies and a reminder of what happens when the damn things are not read properly at all.

Lulu

I have only repeated what my gynaecologist told me this week, she obviously has different information than I do on this.

Im sorry you have had a horrendous time

Sounds strange but I have cut out gluten/wheat to manage IBS and for the first few months my periods were all out of whack, and I read online that cutting out gluten can cause it.
Just a thought, but still get checked out

@lulu I'm so so sorry you had to go through that. I can understand that you see the bigger picture. I'm actually in Glasgow so would definitely use the sexual health clinic you mentioned!
Thank you for stressing the importance of taking responsibility for your own health!

Polyps? Fibroids? I have had both and this is what happens x

@keepingbees funny you should say that! I've had to do the same for IBS after several blood tests etc a few months back. I had no idea that could affect your period!
I worry that things are often suggested - diet/stress/sleep etc but possibly you're missing something more worrying that's making your periods irregular!

According to this NHS info site, you should be being referred to a gynecologist, not being offered another smear - smears are for routine testing, not for diagnosing things if/when you have symptoms:

www.nhs.uk/conditions/cervical-screening/when-its-offered/#when-a-screening-test-may-not-be-recommended

Ask GP for a referral. Best wishes

Yes there should be a referral and part of that check will be a smear. Given OP location and what I’m having to bang my head off a wall repeating, smears are extra important to double triple check on because it’s a risky f-img lottery with incompetent screeners, uninformed or uninterested alleged professionals, multiple hospitals making mistakes (I met a girl who had seven hospital labs independently miss precancerous cells), no accountability for those who don’t do their job, no consequences for allowing young women to get cancer (not fun in case anyone is underestimating), a trail of severely injured, disabled or no longer with us women and girls, lives destroyed, children lost.

I’m one of the most positive girls and I spend half my time wishing I was dead! That’s me doing well relative to most!

My point is, there are girls who have nothing to gain and plenty of pain to incur by trying to let other women know the facts and that they need to advocate for themselves.

There is only so many times we can say this before it’s pointless. I wish someone, anyone, had said even the tiniest thing, anywhere. I would have found their warning and I would have avoided my trip to destroyed life living hell.

I can’t keep repeating this. Everyone can listen to whoever they want. If conflicting info from doctors who are legally recognized to be failing is enough, go ahead and listen to them, there’s nothing more I can do.

Wide awake

You know the clinic I’m referring to? SF?

You will be seen immediately drop in, if you have symptoms say when you arrive.

However be aware than three doctors there stood in court and admitted to inexplicable errors, I heard them speak and read the legal papers. Worse, not all cared. One missed precancerous cells on a colposcopy, one chased a girl out several times and also missed cells.

So when you have a check, and yes it’s an easy clinic with drop in, if you get Dr name beginning with B six letters, say you want someone else because of her legal negligence noted by a judge, longer B name, missed colposcopy, ask her what she’s done to improve herself so she doesn’t do it again. She I expect at least cared about what she did.

Then do me a favour please and tell them that ever single day I am so devastated and physically broken and traumatised that I wish I was dead and would be better dead. I’m alone, I lost babies, i lost everything. I wish they knew that.

So tell them that and say please make sure you are treated better

I was having similar issues like you, it turned out I had a polyp on my womb. I've had it removed and periods have been back to normal since then

I'm really surprised about these responses. Is a few months of irregular periods such a big concern?
I had this last year, had a scan and they saw nothing, so that was it. Should I have had something else?

Could you ask to be referred to the hospital for a pelvic ultrasound/vaginal ultrasound? Polyps and fibroids etc can sometimes cause irregular periods.
Also ask for a blood test when you’re around day 21 of your cycle to check your progesterone levels. Sometimes a progesterone imbalance can cause irregular periods and spotting.

mine are like that the last couple of years but I'm 10 years older than you so assumed it was perimenopause
you'd be quite young though. Has your mum had menopause. Can you ask her when she did? Otherwise I'd get it checked out at the doctor

Thanks lulu, it was the SF that I spoke with in and who refused me an appointment for an earl smear, when I rang. I'll try going for a drop in and see what happens.
I don't have any issues with bleeding or the type of blood that I get during my period.
Doctor said yesterday, to quote, 'we don't worry about periods that don't arrive, we worry about ones that do' and then wen onto to mention about the types of bleeding they are concerned about.
I don't have a mum, so can't ask about menopause etc. If I don't get my period shortly and if I am refused the smear I will ask for blood work to be done.

If you go for a drop in, report there for unusual bleeding when you arrive (you are), you'll be passed to someone for a check.

Watch out with the names of who you get. As I said, I've questioned three of them in court. Two guilty gross negligence. Judgement is published and legal finding in fact.

Doctors said to me, there's nothing wrong, this is all normal. That clearly wasn't true. So don't take any of it. They can't refuse you and if they try, say you want it written in your notes that you asked due to unusual symptoms and they refused you. That'll do it. If it still doesn't and especially if its one of the ones I mentioned, politely asked whatever happened after those legal cases they were found negligent in and the girl who ended up with cancer, is she still alive? That should do it.

They can also do ultrasound there as someone has recommended having, I had two with all the messing around they did with me and at least one was same day, you might have to go back, but they can do that quickly and easily.

Plus blood test plus smear.

They should worry about periods that don't arrive, or at least figure out it its menopause related. It can be cancer in womb. In my case they got lighter. So they should never be ignoring that. Honestly, they are so dangerous. You have to take control yourself.

Don't let them rubbish you, again I'm sure it's nothing, but you should be given proof that it is nothing, or an explanation. It's not difficult for them and if you ask and they don't, say please write the refusal in my notes!