They speculated that women with exceptionally erratic periods might not be metabolizing sugar properly.
The perimenopause, which I am in, can be diagnosed by erratic periods, perhaps vasomotor symptoms, and – this is purely a personal definition – the sense that things are not quite right.
If you've decided to go off the pill to start a family or for any other reason, don't let Internet horror stories about the possible barrage of hormonal side effects -- acne, mood swings, weight gain, erratic periods -- scare you.
But if recent history is any guide, we may be about to embark on an erratic and volatile period for economic policy-making.
I've struggled with erratic, incredibly painful periods from adolescence that no doctor, pill, surgery, or hot water bottle had been able to ease.
Researchers began their study by testing levels of cortisol in London traders who were responding to erratic markets over a period of eight days.
About a third of the sample, with no differences between males and females, had one or more active periods each year; another third had periods of remission exceeding one year; in the remaining, the frequency of active periods was erratic.
My periods were erratic too and every couple of months I'd be at the doctor's with tonsillitis.
Such deviousness, allied to the fruits of corruption, helped maintain his power through three flawed presidential elections, but it was only as his diabetes set in that his control began slipping, and his behaviour became more erratic: he spent long periods either at his farm in Wawa or in overseas clinics.
The ontogenetic structure was similar to that of rainforest tree species, but the population formed both permanent seed and infant banks in response to long dry periods and erratic rainy spells.
