How to End Your Menstrual Cycle Sooner

Video Transcript

"So how to end your menstrual cycle? That's a big question, so I'll break it down into two parts. The first part is, if your concern is how to end the entire menstrual cycle, we should first go over exactly what's considered to be a normal menstrual cycle. A normal menstrual cycle can range from anywhere between 25 and 35 days. About less than one percent of all women have cycles less than 21percent, so most women fall into that range. An individual's menstrual cycle is also related to the age of the individual. Younger women in their teens and twenties have longer menstrual cycles. In their thirties, they tend to, as they get into their thirties it tends to shorten and then once they hit you know, mid forties and onward, they tend to lengthen again. So and those are normal, normal changes in the menstrual life of a patient. So if the desire is to end the cycle, meaning to not experiencing, experience any menstrual periods at all, there are few ways that, that can be achieved. The menstrual cycle itself is controlled, it's a very dynamic and complicated process using hormones, which is a communication between your brain and your ovaries, and hormones are the messengers. So by manipulating those hormones, specifically estrogen, progesterone is usually the way we achieve that. We can affect changes in the menstrual cycle. The way we can do that, is for example, using pills, that's generally considered the most common way to change someone's or affect someone's menstrual cycle. Nowadays there are pills or products available to help either decrease the number of menstrual periods or cycles a patient has in a span of a year. Or at the very least, it can decrease the number of days, a woman has a menstrual period for. Which leads me to the next part, if your question is regarding, how to end or shorten your menstrual period? Again, we should go over what's considered to be a normal menstrual period. A normal period ranges anywhere between two and seven days, anything less or more would be considered abnormal. If you are experiencing abnormalities, meaning your period is either shorter or longer than the two to seven days. You should probably first contact a physician preferably a gynecologist to investigate what the source of that abnormality is. It is not always a problem related to hormonal imbalance. Other things that can affect the menstrual period and the menstrual cycle are things like fibroids, Adenomyosis and even bleeding disorders. So once that has been investigated and a diagnosis made, then you can proceed with an appropriate treatment on how to end the cycle. Again, the easiest way to achieve this is using medication, usually in the form of pills, but there are other modalities containing hormones. There are products available now that can shorten the length of a menstrual period, that can eliminate the menstrual period. Women have many choices today and that is something you should discuss with your physician."