A sudden shift in menstrual cycle length to 24 days may indicate a drop in ovarian reserve. — Whalespan
A sudden shift in menstrual cycle length to 24 days may indicate a drop in ovarian reserve.
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“one of the biggest really one of the only things we see as women start to have fewer eggs in the vault is a shortening of their cycle so you have a regular period and suddenly now you have less eggs in the vault so less are coming out each month and when the brain sends out that FSH signal now there's fewer eggs so it's not getting as dilute and you have one starting to respond sooner so suddenly you're ovulating shorter faster in your cycle you're ovulating on cycle date 9 instead of 14”
“the person who comes to see me and says my period have always been 28 to 30 days but now they're every 24 I just figure it's no big deal I am have red flags going off everywhere because I'm now really concerned that potentially their ovarian reserve has dropped to a point where we are starting to see clinical changes”