An odd question

[elfgoyle.livejournal.com]

I have an odd question for you all (and I can't figure out how to do the cut thing so I appologise)...and feel free to tell me that it is to personal, but I have been wondering about it. I was wondering for those with a female body how many have problems with their reproductive systems. For example how many have irregular period and such that either have or have not been explained. I as because we are a system who reside in a female body and has been diagnosed with PCOS (Polycystic ovarian syndrome). But we have never been regular and even when the doctors had us on birth control pills if a new female started fronting our cycle would get out of wack. I am trying to determine wether or not we should tell our GYN about our multiplicity.

thanks
Ember for the collective

Comments

[3libras.livejournal.com]

Hm. The body may have endometriosis, but we never really thought of it as being linked to multiplicity.

[ex-kiota.livejournal.com]

I have irregular periods... but I don't think multiplicity would have anything to do with it.

[elfgoyle.livejournal.com]

hummm....I should do a poll..well if I knew how to do one.

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=69

(I'd suggest using the "Create a Poll" link further down the page.)

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

LJ-cut instructions are linked from the community info page:
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=75

There is no need to lj-cut a post simply because you think someone might be distressed by the contents. You are asked only to cut posts longer than 40 or so lines and yours was well below that, you're fine.

The hormonal irregularities you describe may be sheer coincidence -- singlets get them all the time -- or it may indeed be something to do with girls in the system. This is in fact the only "phenomenon" that we have ever personally experienced, as follows: Sometime in 1997, Gabriel (who was not at all new to the system or the front) took the body and ran it as almost sole frontrunner for about six weeks. Our period was late by two. Ordinarily, male frontrunners in this system -- be they gay, het or bi -- do not cause this sort of physical reaction. (Best not, since nearly all the frontrunners are male at this time.)

Your gyn is likely to refer you to a mental health professional of some sort if you say you are multiple. You might want to tell them simply, "I've always been irregular." There's no need to bring multiplicity into it even if that is the real reason you're having this difficulty.

If you're asking are there ways to control it, I know of none, but perhaps someone else does.

[(Anonymous)]

I would say the gynaecologist doesn't need to know about it. It isn't necessarily related to your multiplicity; one would suppose the body would follow its own cycles, or not, in the case of PCOS or other hormonal imbalances, whichever gland is the culprit.

However, I would say from personal experiences that there is a slight psychological effect to periods, in that (though mine are irregular -- indeed, I may have something akin to PCOS myself) I've often been able to predict mine a day or two before they to start, even though I don't give them a thought throughout the rest of the month.

[bekkypk.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure whether it would be releted or not. I have very irregular periods, but I'm not sure if it's more to do with stress. As many of my girls aren't human, I don't know if they'd affect me anyhow.
xx

[tempusfrangit.livejournal.com]

I'm irregular, yeah. But not too sure about it since maternal's ancestors were all irregular as well.

[shatterstorm.livejournal.com]

Stress and having a lot of kids at/near the front will delay ours when we aren't on birth control pills. Off the pill, we can be anywhere from 4 weeks to six months between periods.

[gryphons.livejournal.com]

We wanted to post something similar to this quetion a few months ago..

but just our two pence.. we don't have all the symptoms of PCOS, but we do have irregular periods and our ovaries look like swiss cheese.. Our periods can go anywhere from a months to to six months in between and then we have periods that don't stop.. we just had a period that lasted four months. Whis was really uncomfortable for the guys here.. The other question I had.. we have a lot of guys...Has anyone who's body is female and has a preponderance of male people been told that you have a high testosterone level.. like enough to be hormonally counted as male?

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

We have not been told this, because we have never been tested for it.

[elfgoyle.livejournal.com]

we have three males one is adult and the other two are kids (ages 4 and 13) but we have a higher than normal testosterone level. That is b/c of the PCOS though and it is not quite high enough to be counted as male though.

[judiff]

we have PCOS and so have higher than average for a female testosterone but it's no where near enuff to be counted as male. Females with PCOS tend to have lots of oestrogen too becos of anovulatory cycles, so you don't go into the perstrogne pahse of the cycle to much.
We are all girls/womem in this system

[jynxdemon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, always been irregular i was told it was stress related..

[rabbitsystem.livejournal.com]

Not exactly irregular here, just a very long cycle - around six weeks between periods and then the period will only last five days.
It never previously occured to me that my presence in this body could be having some hormonal effect, but that would help to explain the not-very-female menstrual cycle. Hmmm, interesting.
- Seb.