In a perfect world, you'd always know exactly when your period is coming and would never bleed on your favorite new pair on panties or experience any bleeding outside the confines of your scheduled ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." For many people who menstruate, there’s the collective feeling of dread when it comes to “that time of ...

Periods can be so confusing to begin with, it's easy to get wrapped up in worrying about whether you have a normal period. But the odds are that you do — despite the party line that all periods run on ...

We’re conditioned to expect unpleasant side effects along with our periods: bloating, tender boobs, crashing tiredness, uncomfortable cramps. So we just get on with it – knocking back paracetomol, ...

Honestly, I don't know many women who get their periods exactly every 28 days. Most people's are pretty variable. But my cycle takes irregularity to the extreme. After I went off birth control three ...

We're raised to expect our menstrual cycles to run for exactly 28 days, on the dot — so when our periods are irregular, some of us are inclined to totally freak out. Could this irregularity be caused ...

Missing a period can be scary, or exciting, depending on your life plan. But skipping over that time of the month doesn't always mean you're pregnant. In fact, it's totally normal to miss your period ...

There's a lot going on down there... Not only is having an itchy vagina on your period normal, but it's actually very common. "It happens due to a fluctuation in the ‘vaginal microbiome’, bacteria ...