A girl’s tides

OK, boys, stop reading now before you get squeamish. This is more than you really want to know about me. Keep on at your own risk. You have been warned.
WTF is up with my body? I do not enjoy being a girl.
My periods, never regular because of ovarian cysts, are completely off the scale. Every 7 to 14 days, I bleed for a day or two. Sometimes it’s just a little, sometimes it’s quite a bit. Every six-to-eight weeks I bleed heavily for four or five days before it stops.
In between the bleeding, I’m either suffering migraines or experiencing surges of euphoria. I overflow with love and feel superhuman. I’m not sure it’s reasonable to complain about being so happy, but it isn’t “right” and I don’t like it.
My thought is that I’m not ovulating at all, which could lead to twice-monthly bleeding. But weekly? I don’t get it. No doubt hormone pills would sort me out, but I have no desire for them. I don’t need the birth control (see cystic ovaries, above) and prefer not to take daily medications of any sort.
I saw a gynecologist last year when I was bleeding every two weeks. Since I don’t intend to have children, she wasn’t concerned and offered me some Chinese herbal medicine. I declined. Maybe I should rethink that…
All that said, I’m not worried. But I do like to understand what’s going on with my body and so I’m curious. I’m not quite 38 yet. That’s too young to be experiencing pre-menopausal weirdness. Right? I just don’t know.