Cycles Getting Shorter?

You're gonna hate this:

Soooooooooooooooooooooo (deep breath) ooooooooo many possible reasons:

- Stress
- Dieting to lose weight
- Diet in general (including certain things like soy, to missing certain things like iron... but any of 100+ possible things in one's diet can put an oar in)
- Exercise
- Alpha females (if you're around any other females, your period can 'reset' to match theirs. If you're around them intermittently, it can go back and forth. Where it can get really wacky is when you're around girls going through puberty with a ton of start/stopping. But any alpha female pheramone set can run amok with everyone else's cycles. When 2 alphas get together, it gets even quirkier)
- Illness (like catching a cold / flu/ heck... even a yeast infection or athletes foot... anything that kicks your immune system into gear)
- Endometriosis
- Cysts
- Hormones
- Perimenopause
...................................... and the list just goes on.

It's why... if it starts happening a lot... doctors run bloodwork and do a history up. They run about 70 exclusionary tests -pretty cool off of 1-3 vials of blood, and a cup of urine) which look for the big bads (like hormone levels), along with things like sugar in your urine, proteins, well. Like I said. About 70 things get xd off with blood and urine. About another 50 off of the oral history. So, maybe 130 things get crossed off with the one "This is weird" visit. Or a few things get highlighted as MAYBEs... and more tests. IF it's not immediately obvious (like you started a diet, or lost a loved one recently).

It sounds like you are going through what I'm going through and I'm assuming its peri-menopause. I'm a little older than you :) but I'm having similiar symptoms as my Mom did when she went through it. Given that your Mom went through it at an early age its reasonable to assume that you might be too. Having said all that and because you are so young I would go back to your doctor and request more follow up. It can't hurt and then you can be sure that it isn't something else.

Our hormone levels can change causing differences in periods without anything being wrong. I wouldn't be concerned about it at this point.

When you say it was a week early the second time are you counting from the previous time or are you counting from when it should've started if the previous month hadn't been early? Start the count fresh from each month.

Since your mother had an early peri-menapause your hormones could be changing now.

How old is your youngest? I noticed huge differences in my cycle after having children. My kids were close, 19m, and I breastfed too. So I was nursing, pregnant, or both at the same time, for 3+ years straight. Only now that I have not been nursing or pregnant for 2 and a half years is my cycle finally returning to what it was like pre-kids (I am 37). I am not a doctor, but I think having and feeding babies is so taxing on your body it just takes that long to re-regulate. I don't know anything about thyroid issues, but as long as you are having your levels monitored and everything is in line, maybe your body is just still adjusting? But clearly, if you have concerns, you should never hesitate to talk to your doctor about it.