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So, my period finally came today and it has been the WORST in a while. I am cramping and bloating more than I have in years. I look like a hippo. Stupid PM. I feel like complete shit and no amount of my meds is helping. And I demonstrated this feeling to a guy at the gym who has been nothing but nice to me for the past 6 months by telling him that he was being annoying-- really buddy, you decided to ask me too many questions on the wrong fucking day! I know I will feel terrible about it later, but right now I am just feeling like a bitch and cannot help it. I can't believe I worked out today, too, and Wednesdays are my busy days... My abdomen is growling like there is a war going on down there. My meds finally kicked in, but who knows what my experience will be in the morning, if I manage to make it through the night.

So, this makes my last cycle 37 days long. Looking at my BBT chart, it looks as though my Follicular Phase was 20 days in length and my Luteal Phase was 17 days in length... even though I never did get any Luteal swelling. Now I just need to do my research to discover how people decrease their PM... finish taking it earlier in the Follicular Phase, or start taking it later in the Follicular Phase? I took PM for a total of 11 days this past cycle, so if my period went 7-9 days longer than it should have, I am going to take a poorly educated guess and shoot for 9 days of PM for this current cycle (I just calculated that my cycle increased in length by a quarter, so I decreased the amount of PM I will be taking by a quarter. No more logic to it than that! Until I learn more from trial and error...).

So now today I am no longer taking my Luteal Phase supplements and am only taking what I take all month long... until I decide when I should begin taking PM again.

EDIT: my purse was stolen last Saturday so I will have to wait till Monday to receive the card with which I will make the purchase for a measuring bra! I think this is so important because I do not 100% trust my measuring...