Happy days are here again!

[slemslempike]

The coil is not the agony I had feared it might be - I have one day where it is quite painful, but even if I don't have any painkillers to hand it is not actually incapacitating. However, it has changed my periods, so I have a few days of small amounts of blood in discharge (enough to need a liner), and then about four days of actual bleeding, including two nights where I overflow my larger capacity cup and need back-up, and then about three/four days of bleeding gradually tailing off. I've only just started using an online tracker to work out when things happen, but this currently only leaves me with about a week in the middle where I don't bleed at all. I am mildly grumpy about this. According to monthlyinfo I'll be rageous about it in about two days.

Comments

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I was surprised that my first one was 27 days, it felt shorter. I am looking forward to finding out what it's like long-term, though this does rely on me remembering to update it.

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

It thinks mine are 27 days on average with data going back to early 2008, which surprises the heck out of me - I would have said it was more like 25 if asked, though I can't think who would ask me.

Does it send you the reminders automatically or do you have to turn them on? I really don't want it sending 'check your breasts for lumps' emails, as I am already paranoically conscientious about this and don't need the Internet getting in on the act.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I only get "approximately 2 days to your period", and although there are others I think they're absolutely all opt-in.

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

I suppose 2 days to period might come in handy in an 'Oh, that's why I want to bite the world's head off and spit it back in the direction of the world's groin' sort of way, though I do normally manage to work it out for myself eventually.