D'oh! Had a reply typed out and accidentally hit Back and the computer (the one time I wanted it to) didn't ask me to confirm I wanted to leave the page! Gah!!

Kel, I actually got caught out after my first lap. I bled for about 5 days and then had nothing for about 3 days. When I started bleeding heavily again, I thought it was AF (even though it was almost a week early). That second lot of bleeding tapered off to a light flow after a few days and then BAM heavy again and oh so painful and that's when I knew that it was actually the third lot of bleeding that was AF! I was so disappointed because I had thought for that second week that I was having my first pain-free AF ever, only to find out it wasn't AF and when AF did show up it hurt as much as ever!
Just so you know, it's normal for the first 2-3 AFs after a lap to be nasty. After that, they should get better.