menstrual health cycle

There is no standard that "it must take 28 days to become normal" circulated throughout the Internet. A healthy menstrual cycle is a floating range - 21 to 35 days. A single menstrual period lasts from 3 to 7 days, and the fluctuation range of two adjacent cycles does not exceed 7 days. If there is no unbearable pain, abnormal bleeding and other discomforts, it is a completely healthy state. There is no need to force the so-called "perfect 28 days".

In the five years I have been doing women's health education, I have met too many girls who came to ask questions with screenshots of menstrual apps. Some were so frightened that they were unable to sit still after missing two days. Some felt that they had "premature ovarian failure" because they have a 32-day cycle all year round. There were even some who bought a bunch of internet celebrity menstruation pills to try to stretch the cycle to 28 days. In the end, they suffered from hormonal disorders and caused problems.

Regarding the judgment of cycle health, in fact, different medical systems have different perspectives.

Western medicine pays more attention to objective indicators. As long as the values of the six sex hormone tests corresponding to the cycle are within the reference range, and the B-ultrasound shows that there are no organic diseases in the ovaries and uterus, it is considered normal whether you come once every 23 days or once every 34 days - after all, the luteal phase is basically fixed for 14 days. To put it bluntly, the cycle length is about 15 days. Just like some people eat quickly and others eat slowly, as long as they can digest and absorb it well, there is no need to force everyone to finish a meal in 15 minutes. Some people are born with slow follicle growth and naturally long cycles, which is not a problem at all.

The judgment of traditional Chinese medicine will be more biased towards body sensation and overall condition. Even if your cycle is stuck at 28 days, if your breasts are so swollen one week before each visit, you still have backache and diarrhea during menstruation, and your menstrual blood is full of blood clots, you will think that it is due to liver stagnation, spleen deficiency, and poor qi and blood, and you need to regulate it. There is no difference between the two logics. If your cycle is not 28 days but you don't feel any discomfort, there is no need to take medicine in order to "meet the standards". ； If your cycle is accurate but you suffer half a life every time you come, even if you meet the "perfect standard" on the Internet, you should find out the reason.

In the past two months, I met a girl who worked in Internet operations. She rushed to the 618 sale for three consecutive months and stayed up until 2 or 3 o'clock every day. The cycle changed from 30 days to 40 days. She was so frightened that she immediately asked for leave for a checkup. The results showed that her hormones and B-ultrasound were normal, so I asked her to go back and rest for a week. She slept for 8 hours a day and stopped milk tea and coffee for a while. It was time to go back this month.

Really, the occasional cycle fluctuation is mostly a reminder from your body, not a harbinger of a serious illness. Don’t sentence yourself to “premature aging” as soon as you postpone it. Think about whether you have stayed up too many nights recently, been under too much stress, or just gone on a trip and changed the environment. These factors may affect endocrine. Occasionally, it fluctuates for 7-10 days. As long as it can recover on its own later, there is really no need to over-intervene.

Many people only focus on the number of days between menstrual cycles. In fact, the symptoms associated with menstruation are much more important than the number of days. If your cycle is stuck in the range of 21-35 days, but it hurts so much that you need to take more than 3 painkillers before you can go to work normally, or if you bleed for more than 3 days during ovulation, or if your menstrual flow is so light that you only use panty liners throughout the cycle and have to change them at night every two hours and still leak, no matter how "standard" the number of days is, you still need to check it out in time.

To be honest, there is no uniform template for menstrual health. The pattern that your body maintains all year round is the health cycle that is most suitable for you. Don't worry about the predicted date on the APP every day, and don't believe in the brainless rumors that "short cycles lead to faster aging". Stay up less late at night than necessary, and don't blindly eat Internet celebrity menstrual regulating products with unknown ingredients. If you feel uncomfortable, go to a regular hospital for a check-up, which is more reliable than anything else.