India, Sept. 4 -- The bedrock of your menstrual cycle is hormones. And if your body's normal functioning gets disrupted, hormone levels get affected too, and they fluctuate, and in turn, changes are visible in your period's flow, duration and pain. These changes can show up in many distinct ways. Identifying anomalies in your period can help you catch health issues early on, and you can take the necessary steps for treatment.

Dr Vaishali Joshi, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital in Mumbai, told HT Lifestyle that a normal period usually arrives every 21 to 35 days and lasts for 2 to 7 days, with flow that may be light or heavy, and small variations from month to month are natural. Anything oth...