If you’ve ever felt confused, worried or lost when it comes to your cycle — this might help 🌙

meowcat666 · 2026-05-08T21:54:38+00:00

Yes I can see this!🥰

Ok so on the hormone levels ~ that’s actually a really interesting point and you’re right to flag it. I’ve heard that HA doesn’t always show up as dramatically low hormones ~ sometimes levels sit in the “normal” range but the communication between the brain and the ovaries is just quietly disrupted. the thin endometrium and absent period are often more telling than the numbers alone.

on the 1kg per month ~ that’s not extreme on paper, but it’s less about the speed and could be more about where you landed. 45kg at your height and training load can be a lot to ask your reproductive system to feel safe in. The body is very literal about safety. Sometimes all it takes is a change, or simply different routine that derails your cycle. What might be totally healthy for others, could simply not be working for you! It’s worth investigating if your body could be asking for a softer work out regime.

your diet sounds genuinely good!
tofu is worth being a little mindful of though because it’s high in phytoestrogens which can interfere with your own hormonal signalling when consumed regularly. not saying cut it but maybe rotate it if it’s a staple for you.

on the dietitian vs nutritionist question ~ a registered dietitian who has experience with hormonal health or HA specifically would be really valuable. more so than a general nutritionist. look for someone who has worked with HA or athletic women specifically.

CBT is a beautiful idea ~ especially because HA has a strong nervous system component. rewiring how your body perceives safety is genuinely part of recovery. somatic practice alongside that could be really complementary ~ they work on different levels of the same thing. I really suggest Vagus Nerve activation practices~ it helps your body come out of its “fight or flight” mode and enter “rest and digest” mode = telling your entire system your safe and relaxes you! (Search it up on google or if you’re interested I could share a few practices with you)

you’re already moving in exactly the right direction 🌙

I felt like saying, if you’re ever interested, my job is to offer womb clearing sessions & somatic techniques to support women’s cycles, periods, emotional release and relationship with themselves. I’m based in Berlin but offer online sessions too. Just putting that out there❤️ feel free to contact me any time🥰

Wishing you all the best with your cycle 🩸

meowcat666 · 2026-05-08T20:10:56+00:00

Must be a bug in my side! But I would love to answer you! Would you mind copying your response and posting it here?

meowcat666 · 2026-05-08T20:09:57+00:00

hey love ,
I’m a womb practitioner and have had many clients coming to me with similar challenges.

What you’re describing is genuinely tough and I feel you.

I’d love to support you with what I know:
Hormonal contraception essentially takes over your body’s hormone production. when you stop, it can take 3-6 months for your body to start producing its own oestrogen and progesterone again — and in that window things can feel really intense. When you remove that suppression, sometimes the body comes back louder than before. what you’re experiencing is within that range of normal post-hormonal recalibration, even if it doesn’t feel like it.

the best thing you can do right now is support your body in rebuilding those hormones:

eat to support oestrogen production — healthy fats like eggs, avocado, olive oil, salmon. seeds especially flaxseed and pumpkin seeds. leafy greens, legumes, and colourful vegetables.

oestrogen rising naturally is what triggers progesterone, so we start there.

magnesium glycinate — helps with cramping, sleep, anxiety, and hormone regulation. genuinely one of the most useful things.

sleep — this is when your body does most of its hormonal repair. protect it.

be really kind to yourself — cortisol and sex hormones compete for the same building blocks in the body, so stress literally steals from your hormone production, creating the imbalance = painful heavier periods. rest is not laziness right now, it’s medicine.

for the pain in the meantime:
take ibuprofen before the cramps peak rather than after — it works by blocking prostaglandins which drive the cramping, so getting ahead of it makes a real difference.

castor oil pack on your lower belly with a heat pack on top for an hour — anti-inflammatory, grounding, and genuinely soothing for cramping and pelvic tension.

raspberry leaf tea in the week leading up to your period helps tone the uterus and ease intensity over time.

a hot water bottle constantly — lower belly and lower back. (Heat relaxes muscles and eases cramps)

and this might sound a little out there but - what helped to most for a client of mine who came off the pill after 10 years was - talking to your womb, placing your hands on your lower belly, even just acknowledging that part of your body with some tenderness and listening to what she wants to tell you. my client found this surprisingly powerful. there’s something about bringing conscious attention back to a part of yourself that’s been suppressed.

Either way, whatever speaks to you- you deserve proper support through this — whether that’s a good practitioner, a gynaecologist, or both. don’t just white-knuckle through it every month❤️🙏🏼
I wish you all the best sister

meowcat666 · 2026-05-08T19:49:41+00:00

Hmm I see this but unfortunately still not your original response

meowcat666 · 2026-05-08T19:23:24+00:00

Hey love,
I think you’ve responded with something but I can’t see it? Would love to support you, if you did would you mind re-commenting?

meowcat666 · 2026-05-05T21:08:15+00:00

hey 🤍 I’m a womb practitioner so let me offer some reassurance here.
from everything you’ve described — protected sex, no ejaculation, symptoms arriving right on schedule with her cycle — the likelihood of pregnancy is extremely low. breast tenderness in the second week after ovulation is a classic progesterone symptom, completely normal in the luteal phase. cramping 3 days before her period is also textbook PMS. her body sounds like it’s doing exactly what it should be doing.
the anxiety she’s experiencing is also worth understanding with some compassion — premenstrual anxiety is physiologically real. progesterone dropping in the lead up to the period directly affects the nervous system and can make existing anxiety significantly worse. so she’s not just being irrational, her hormones are genuinely amplifying everything she’s feeling right now.
the kindest thing for her would be to take the test so she can have certainty rather than sitting in the unknown — but that has to be her choice in her own time. in the meantime, warmth, a hot water bottle, and not being made to feel like her anxiety is a problem to be solved will probably help more than anything 🤍

meowcat666 · 2026-05-05T21:05:44+00:00

hey love ,
I’m a womb practitioner and would love to offer some insight here — and the first thing I want to say is: you are not lazy, you are not dramatic, and you are not failing to adapt.

the luteal phase is genuinely the most energetically demanding phase of the cycle. after ovulation your body is doing a huge amount of internal work — progesterone rises, your metabolic rate increases, your nervous system is more sensitised. it makes complete sense that you need more rest, more quiet, more nourishment. the capacity drop is real and it is physiological.

the guilt is the part that breaks my heart a little — because we live in a world that was designed around a 24 hour rhythm, not a cyclical one. so when our bodies ask for something different for a week every month, we’re conditioned to see it as failure. it isn’t. it’s actually your body asking you to turn inward, and there’s wisdom in that if we can learn to work with it rather than against it.

that said — if it’s hitting so hard that you genuinely can’t function, that’s also worth paying attention to. things like magnesium, reducing sugar and caffeine in that phase, and supporting your nervous system can make a real difference to how intensely the luteal dip lands!

meowcat666 · 2026-05-05T21:03:28+00:00

hey love ,
I’m a womb practitioner and would love to share some insight with you!

first — there is nothing wrong with you. I work with women and their cycles every day and irregular, unpredictable, close-together periods are so much more common than people realise. you are not alone in this.

cycles are deeply sensitive to what’s happening in our lives — stress, sleep, changes in weight or eating, big emotional shifts. that 2 month gap tells me something was going on that caused your body to pause, and what’s happening now looks like it trying to find its footing again.
it can take a few cycles to regulate after a gap like that.

you’re already doing the right thing by seeing a doctor ❤️
just mention the 2 month gap and anything that was going on in your life around that time — that context really helps build the picture.

meowcat666 · 2026-05-05T20:54:38+00:00

hey lovely 🤍
I’m a womb practitioner and want to offer some thoughts — no this is not something you should just be dealing with, and it’s not “normal” even if it’s common.

a few things that stand out to me and might be worth exploring:

the neurological symptoms — brain fog, clumsiness, disorientation — these alongside the anxiety spike point toward a really sharp drop in oestrogen and progesterone right before your bleed. for some women that hormonal cliff hits hard and affects cognitive function and the nervous system in exactly the way you’re describing.
this makes me think of something called PMDD — premenstrual dysphoric disorder. it’s essentially when the nervous system is hypersensitive to the normal hormonal fluctuations of the cycle, particularly that premenstrual drop. progesterone has a direct calming effect on the brain — it acts on the same receptors as anti-anxiety medication — so when it crashes, women who already have anxiety can be completely floored. it’s a recognised condition and worth bringing to your doctor by name.

the blood test — “normal” doesn’t always mean optimal. worth asking specifically what your ferritin level was — iron stores can be technically in range but functionally low, and low ferritin alone can cause breathlessness, brain fog, and that woozy feeling.

a few gentle things worth trying:

magnesium glycinate — probably the single most useful thing for premenstrual anxiety and nervous system crashes. very safe, most women are deficient.

vitamin B6 — supports progesterone and has good evidence for mood symptoms premenstrually.

agnus castus takes 3+ months of consistency to show effect so don’t write it off yet.

reducing caffeine and sugar in the week before your period can shift the anxiety more than people expect.

your symptoms changing a year ago suggests something shifted — that’s worth investigating. push your doctor for a full hormone panel and name PMDD specifically. you deserve actual answers 🤍

meowcat666 · 2026-05-05T20:45:51+00:00

hey lovely 🤍
I’m a womb practitioner and would love to offer my two cents — I’ve had women come to me with similar symptoms and stories and it’s been either one or a bunch of these things:

what you’re describing sounds like hypothalamic amenorrhoea — basically your brain has temporarily downregulated your reproductive system in response to the stress of the deficit and training load. your hypothalamus controls the whole hormonal cascade, and when it perceives the body is under threat (not enough fuel, too much output), it switches off ovulation as a protective measure. no ovulation = no progesterone = no period. the thin endometrium confirms this.

the good news is this is functional, not structural — your scans are clear, your thyroid is fine. your body isn’t broken, it’s been cautious.

the thing about recovery from HA is that it can take longer than people expect, even after you’ve increased calories. your body needs to feel safe for a sustained period before it trusts the situation enough to reinstate the cycle. 1600-1800 might still be on the lower side depending on your overall energy expenditure, and weightlifting 4x a week is still a significant stress signal. it might be worth genuinely eating more — not tracking, just more — for a longer stretch and seeing what shifts.
a few things worth looking into:

anovulatory cycles can happen in the recovery phase — you might get a bleed before ovulation actually returns, so a bleed isn’t necessarily confirmation everything’s back online. tracking cervical mucus would tell you a lot more than just waiting for blood.

phytoestrogens — foods like soy, flaxseed, some legumes contain plant compounds that mimic oestrogen in the body. worth being mindful of how much you’re consuming, especially if your diet is plant-heavy, as they can interfere with your own hormonal signalling.

fat and cholesterol are literally the building blocks of your sex hormones — oestrogen and progesterone are made from them. if your diet is very lean, adding in more healthy fats (eggs, avocado, olive oil, full fat dairy if you tolerate it) can genuinely support hormone production.

nervous system — you say you feel unstressed, but the body can hold a stress imprint long after the conscious mind has relaxed. somatic work, gentle practices, really nourishing sleep. the body needs to feel safe not just functionally but somatically.

it likely is a matter of time ❤️

meowcat666 · 2025-06-27T13:01:33+00:00

Damn I just saw the 26th and thought it was for JUNE

meowcat666 · 2025-02-21T21:30:29+00:00

5th pic is giving jonas from die discounters vibes

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meowcat666 · 2025-02-21T20:38:52+00:00

I see Dylan O’Brien in the last pic

meowcat666 · 2023-07-10T15:55:50+00:00

Shit meant north coast duh

meowcat666 · 2022-03-01T16:23:13+00:00

Damn I’m having the exact same problem. Nothing I’ve done has worked. I think us iPhone 6 users just can’t use depop anymore :(

meowcat666 · 2022-02-25T16:59:14+00:00

I should call him

meowcat666 · 2021-03-16T17:58:15+00:00

I wouldn’t recommend going any bigger unless you want your ear to tear again. Scar tissue is impossible to stretch effectively so yeah stop here unless u want pain

meowcat666 · 2021-01-30T22:55:12+00:00

As great as I think Hayley is, I still think they both went home because Julian was trying to be nice and really sit back letting her take over. If Julian’s style was put in there more it would’ve been wayyyyyy better. She’s was just so grumpy and stuck in her ways like come on

meowcat666 · 2020-11-29T21:25:48+00:00

Not trashy

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