I’m really worried about my cycle. Everything online says a healthy menstrual cycle is up to 35 days, but mine is always 42. I have really heavy painful periods, and always have done, although recently they have been better (possibly since I started using a cup?) last year my period pains were so bad I couldn’t move, so I called 111 and they told me to go to urgent care, but then when I got there I was more or less ignored. The doctor said that all women have period pain, and that it’s normal. I don’t know whether this was maybe because he had obviously never had a period himself, I explained that it wasn’t normal for me at all, but nothing helped, and he told me to try a hot water bottle 🙄
When I finally saw a female doctor, she prescribed me an anticoagulant, which actually helped a lot, and booked me some hormone tests. Unfortunately, the hormone test were postponed, and therefore weren’t done in the right part of my cycle and were therefore pointless.
After all this, I pretty much just gave up and decided not to pursue it any further as it was just upsetting me, however now I am trying to conceive and I’m worried that my long cycles and painful periods are a bad sign 😕 Should I go to a GP about this? I don’t want to waste their time and I don’t want to be fobbed off again but I’m so worried that I can’t have a baby...