TMI Question ... Periods & Sex

FeliciaB · 04-24-2007, 10:14 PM

I feel kinda weird asking this question but here goes!

I stopped having regular periods when I was 18...about 5 years ago. I lost about 30 lbs (of the 60 I gained over the past 4 yrs) and since then I have noticed that I will get a period, if I have intercourse within 1 day of my projected start date. In fact, the only periods I have had since I lost the weight have been within 1 day after intercourse. This has now happened the last 3 months in a row...I experimented this month, and didn't have sex for about a week before I should have had a period and wala! No period. Does this make me crazy??? I don't think its coincidence by any means, and I have just started a new job so I don't have insurance to go and DR about it right now. I don't think I can last another 3 months though...I feel like I need an answer! Is there anyone else that has this problem, or knows WHY this happens?

OK now that I feel like a total wierdo.......

cristaljoy · 04-24-2007, 10:18 PM

you are not weird

intercourse brings my period on also

i have no explanation, only comraderie

FeliciaB · 04-24-2007, 10:27 PM

Thanks Cristal...we should form a club! HAHA

Jashobeam · 04-24-2007, 10:37 PM

Sex can cause uterine contractions. These contractions are also what your body uses to shed the uterine lining.

cristaljoy · 04-24-2007, 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Jashobeam

Sex can cause uterine contractions. These contractions are also what your body uses to shed the uterine lining.

omg i never knew this

the things you learn

cristaljoy · 04-24-2007, 11:27 PM

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Originally Posted by FeliciaB

Thanks Cristal...we should form a club! HAHA

yeah

i'm definitely in "the club"

i'm so lucky, i swear

Jashobeam · 04-25-2007, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by cristaljoy

the things you learn

I never paid attention much in health class as a kid, so the internet has been amazing for finding out things about AF/PMS, etc.

ttara123 · 04-25-2007, 06:37 PM

I've never had sex actually start my period, but the day before or the day after my period if I have sex I get some spotting afterwards...once I took a tampon out and it was completely white, so my BF and I started having sex but when he pulled out afterwards the condom was covered in blood. I guess the contracts shook some loose or something. Now I try to wait a day or two afterwards, if I can...because that was definitely not the hottest thing that has ever happened in bed!

sinnie · 04-25-2007, 08:38 PM

Whenever I have a period, usually brought on by Provera or birth control pills...
Sometimes my period will stop around day 2 or 3. Then I have sex thinking it's safe, because sometimes it does stop after that long. A day later, it'll come back with a vengeance. So yeah sex does help it start I think.
I tease my husband when it happens and say "Help me get the rest of it out!!!"

*Betsey* · 04-26-2007, 11:53 PM

I almost always start/bleed after sex. and it doesnt matter where in my cycle i am.