11 weeks after my D & C to the day, a period finally started, I spotted for 6 days on and off, never having enough spotting to warrant even a panty liner.
Yesterday I went out for a run and felt wet warmth in my underwear but just figured it was still light spotting or cervical fluid that I had been feeling frequently. I got home after a 40 minute run to find my underwear and new shorts soaked in blood. I soaked them in cold water when I took them off and the stains are gone thankfully.
I am still having a light headache today but I think that is just something that comes with the period. I feel more like myself now that I have had this period. I am much lighter today but it is consistent with my regular periods.
I am hoping to have a regular cycle this month now and maybe we will conceive but even if not we are in a much better place with the hormones.
The fact that my period finally started when I was out running makes me feel that the exercise is what is best for regulating hormones. I had been out walking, running and jogging the other days that I was spotting too with the exception of Sunday because I felt so terrible. Thanks mostly to insomnia the last couple of days. I read online that is common with period hormones, but I had never experienced that before. Though since November is my first time since I was 16 that I wasn't on birth control so a lot of hormones are new to me. Crohn's is often linked to women's hormones so my Doctor had strongly suggested that I took them for the last 11 years.
Today I may have to take another tylenol. Right now I am freezing some coffee to make iced coffee and hope that the caffeine in that may help with my light headache and backache so I can get more done today. I have been up since 5:30 this morning.
Have any of you had a D&C? What was your experience with your first period after? Did it go back to normal after the first period?
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