Thin uterine lining?

[Thistledew]

I came off the pill at the end of January this year and my periods have not yet really returned. I have been to the GP for a hormone check and everything is apparently normal.

I have had two very short bleeds- both times about a week after having acupuncture treatment. I had a one-off treatment in May followed two days of light bleeding and the same after a session a couple of weeks ago. I have now signed up for a course of acupuncture.

I was wondering if the shortness of the bleeds and lack of regularity could be a sign of insufficient womb lining? Has anyone else suffered this?

What hormone check was done and on which cycle day?. It may be that the GP has missed something.

Irregularity of periods is often caused by hormonal imbalances; at the very least the blood tests should be done again.

Thanks Attila - I am not exactly sure what hormones they tested, but there were a range of checks. I think I need to get a hold of the results, as the GP didn't really explain what each of the readings meant, but just said they were all within normal range. As to the cycle day - well, that was day one hundred and something since stopping the pill! Something like day 60 since the previous light bleed.

I now have an appointment for a scan next week, so hopefully that might throw some more light on the issue.

Blood tests have to be done on certain days; if the cycle is irregular then the tests can be done according to calendar days. Also some hormone levels are measured on certain calendar days. A blood test done after day 35 anyway would be a wasted effort.

A "normal" cycle is a cycle length of between 21 and 35 days or with less than 4 days of variation from month to month. Cycles that are consistently more than 35 days tend to be anovulatory ones; it is also possible to have periods without ovulating.

Think the GP has missed something here and it is in your interests to get definitive answers as to why this is happening.

The scan hopefully will give you some answers; they are probably going to do an internal ultrasound scan to assess the state of your uterine cavity and to see if your ovaries are polycystic (a common cause of irregular periods).

I think the issue is that I don't have a cycle at all at the moment. Although there have been several occasions when I have had really significant EWCM. I had 3 days of EWCM about a fortnight after the first light bleed, and then about 6 days after that I had one day of spotting with pinkish blood, very different to a period. Then nothing.

Yes, the scan is a Transvaginal pelvic scan. I will try and get hold of the results of the blood tests to get a second opinion, as I didn't have much faith in the GP who 'explained' them to me. I kind of lost confidence in him after he suggested that the next investigation should be testing DH's sperm count. I have no idea why that would be relevant to my missing periods.