thread: Cycle length?

  1. #1

    May 2008
    Melbourne, Vic
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    Cycle length?

    Can I ask about cycle lengths - is yours consistent? To some degree? Not at all?

    I know the day a woman ovulates can change, but how much can it change? Slightly, a day or two? Or can it change more?

    Just curious as it seems mine are all over the place, which I find odd... AF arrived 28 days after my D&C, smack on 28 days. Then last cycle was 30 days but I feel like I ovulated on CD14, which makes the LP 16 days??? This one, who knows, but I feel like I ovulated around CD11... very early for me!

    Before having babies I was always a 28-30 day cycle, pretty consistent. I guess I haven't really had any sort of regular cycles in between kids so I don't know if pregnancy has altered things... also could be the mc still stuffing things round...

    ETA: I'm not using FF or temping...

    Experiences please! Anyone?

  2. #2
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    Oct 2006
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    Mine vary by a couple of days although the last 3 months back to 28 days. After my first mc cycles went down to 24 days then to 33 before getting back on track .

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    Jul 2010
    Melbourne
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    Since going off BC almost 3 years ago my cycles have gone from 120 days to around 80ish days and now they are 45-60 days. 45 days was the shortest EVER for me (not including clomid ) My M/C didn't really change anything because my cycles are ridiculous anyway!

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    Oct 2007
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    I have PCOS so my cycle ranges from 35 to 125 days.

  5. #5
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    Jul 2006
    Melbourne
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    At the moment, generally between 28 to 32 days. In the past, mine were all over the place, really terribly erratic

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    May 2010
    Western Sydney, Australia
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    Since going off BC I had a 48 day anovular cycle, a 34 day cycle with a 4 day LP, a 41 day cycle with an 8 day LP, and this cycle I have no idea when I o'd but I got a BFP on CD 41. I think maybe I o'd on CD 18, which is very early for me. All over the shop and very hard to chart!

    One thing I have learned here on BB, and find endlessly reassuring, is that "normal" cycles are NOT normal!

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    Mar 2008
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    Mine have always been 28 days, but I can have AF for up to 10 days since I had DD. First m/c, things went back to normal straight away (after d&c), and second m/c took a couple of months to get back on track (natural). After the first one - we m/c in April and got my BFP for DD in July.

  8. #8

    May 2008
    Melbourne, Vic
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    Right - so anything is possible!

    For some reason I thought it'd go back to normal

    What's normal anyway?! Normal is boring

  9. #9
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    Nov 2008
    Perth, WA
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    I differ depending on what side I O from (well, that's what I assume it is!) One month between 26-28 days, the next between 32 and 34 days.

  10. #10
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    Feb 2010
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    Before having my girls I was a 28 day cycle every time and that was not on pill. Now I can have a 22-34 day cycle. I am having flow length issues though ATM so I know with me there is a problem hopefully to be sorted.