your period goes through stages w you and changes overtime, a lot of it has to do with hormones, your period now and in 5 years will be different, mine has changed a whole lot (i’m only 20 tho), they’ve gotten easier. i’m sure it also depends on when u got it when it changes, but it is definitely something you can bring up to a gyno to see if there is anything underlying. it never hurts to ask, especially since women’s health isn’t always taken seriously and we have to fight for ourselves 😫😫

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Get it checked out. You’re probably not dying or anything but that’s around the age PCOS and other conditions with similar symptoms develop in many women.

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UHM YES WAIT WHAT. AFTER I TURNED 21

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Hey, not a woman, BUT my gf said that cramps did indeed get much worse after sex!

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As I have gotten older my periods have gotten less intense and became short. I used to have them for 8 days with horrible cramps in my early and mid teens. But as I was a few months after I turned 18, my periods became 3-4 days with less severe cramps.

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the 21 thing really strikes something because i believe your gyn recommends your first pap to be at 21

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Not a woman but a close friend said that her cramps got worse after she turned 18

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