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  • Claire12435
    Junior Member
    • Mar 2018
    • 1

    Varying menstrual cycle lengths

    For the past couple years I have been tracking my menstraul cycles. Although I get my period each month, the length of my cycle varies each time. I have noticed that my cycle is anywhere between 33-26 days. Is this normal/healthy?

    Thank you!
  • atskitty2
    Assistant Admin
    • Aug 2013
    • 4467

    Doesn't seem out of the range of normal. By textbooks, and averages we are given the 28 day cycle, but that doesn't mean that's the only normal or healthy cycle.

    If you're not having issues, and everything is working as it should, it's probably your normal.
    And good for you for tracking and getting to know your body better

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    • jns
      Assistant Admin
      • Mar 2010
      • 8398

      From what I personally know, that seems reasonable.
      I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
      ...
      Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?

      From a speech by Patrick Henry on March 23, 1775 at St. John's Church, Richmond, Virginia

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      • Ronit Raj
        Member
        • Sep 2022
        • 73

        Every woman has a different menstrual cycle, which is measured from the first day of one period to the first day of the next.
        Every 21 to 35 days, menstrual flow may occur, lasting two to seven days. Long cycles are typical in the first few years after menstruation begins.

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