Lit just posted about this myself!
I can always tell when my period is coming at least...

I no longer have to deal with that jolly "girl stuff", but when I did, it was horrible. Not just flares with rhe fibro but excruciating cramps. On some of the fibro boards I used to belong to we had deep discussions about this and other female things.

I have wondered for a long time about hormonal imbalaces being related to fibro. It seems like many women I have talked to have experienced horrible periods, major flares, often early/young hysterectomy...things like that.

I got rid of that baby! My fibro made me bleed until it was a constant affair! One time I got up at a restaurant and blood just gushed down my legs like I was having a baby or something! So I had a hystorectomy. I was having cysts that were bursting every month. icky.

My menstrual cycle was getting really painful and dropping me to my knees a few years ago so I had a total hystorectomy. That was before my back surgeries and before I was diagnosed with fibro. I think I've probably had it since my first car accident in 1991. My neck and shoulders started hurting then...hmm

I have a flare every month. I am barely functional for about 3 days before and a week after! I can't wait for penopause!