You are still quite young I take it, since you only just got your period a year ago. Your period will not be 'regular' for awhile. I'm not sure how people think when you get your period it will be every 28 days every month and last for 5-7 days, etc, etc. Some women have cycles that last 25 days and they only bleed for a day. Others have cycles that go for 34 days and they bleed for a week (i'm like this).

As we age, our cycles change. They won't always be the same. They won't start out in a perfect pattern and they won't end in a perfect pattern.

If you are at all worried (as I can tell you are), seeing your doctor is the best thing for you. However, there isn't anything much they can/will do about irregular cycles at this point.

I'm just thinking maybe this is serious
this is not very normal

i am 17 now and I know i've been told they won't be regular for awhile but i've never known someone who doesn't have red blood when they have their period

now its only mild spotting - discharge - brown dried blood

honestly does this effect birthing?

Would this have anything to do with a disease like cancer?

How do you know that this is not normal?
Brown means old , it turns brown when oxygen reaches the .

I think you are jumping the gun with your concerns.

You need to go to your doctor or find one who your comfortable with (like a female doctor), they can do tests to see whats going on like ultrasounds, tests. If you have a close friend or relative take them along with you to the appointment.

Don't worry anymore than you have to, go and get yourself checked and let us know how you went on ok?

When I first got my period at 11 I had a predictable, 7 day, cycle. It wasn't the perfect 28 days but I knew about when it was coming.

At age 15 I started missing my period. At first it was every now and then, then it became more often. At times there would even be 3 months between each period. They also became lighter only lasting 3 days. When I looked it up online a condition called oligomenorrhea seemed to match it.

I was 19 by the I first went to an ob/gyn. They just pushed be aside and put me on birth control to make me have a 28 day cycle. I was on it for a year, the month I got off it my period was at 35 days instead of the 28 it was at for the entire year before. I don't think it worked in the long term for me but I am unsure how long you need to be on it for it to correct something like that.

A month later I went on the depo shot so I no longer get my period.

I am 21 now and I know no idea way my period suddenly became irregular. People always told me that i'm young and it usually takes till your 16 to start a regular cycle, I seemed to go the opposite direction. The only reason I can think of it that I lost my mother when I was 11. I know when females live together they all have their period at the same time due to the chemicals we give off. Well I only lived with my father so I do not think my body had another female to put in on the right cycle. Just a thought.

I remember when I had my first period I was ready for the every month thing. But after having that first anitial period I didn't have one again for about 6 months. Then for that first year they were very sporadic.

In the first year it is normal to have abnormal monthly periods