Crazy Periods

Just keeping it real here. Who has a "regular" period? I did, or so I thought, up until last year when things starting getting weird. When I was a teenager, it was for from regular. Started out having my period when I was 10! Thought I was dying and being punished for being rude to my grandma. Haha. Nope! mom explained it to me, but this "curse" as I call her has been with me for a long time. Once I became a teenager I started running, in school, half marathons you name it. Then my period became nonexistent. My mom would constantly accuse me of being pregnant since i was missing it so often and sometimes for months at a time. I was taking pregnancy tests and nothing. I tried telling her maybe something was wrong, Then come to find out because of me being so active, and I was not eating, hardly at all. this was the culprit and she should put me on birth control to help it start back up and regulate it. Aside from when I got pregnant and didn't have it and shortly after having my daughter, it finally became a "normal" period. Like clock work, on a Thursday each month that curse would join me for a week, heavily and lots of cramps. Then as the years passed, although still starting on a Thursday it got shorter, till in my 30's it only would last until Sunday, maybe Monday but with the most God awful cramps ever! Then last year it started to become even more irregular again, starting on a Wednesday, or spotting for a whole week then massive blood loss, or just spotting, or for 2 weeks straight once just non stop. I was so sick feeling and not even feeling like myself. My hormones were crazy. Then it would be normal again, and now here we are today. Next Thursday is the day, and I have no idea what is coming. I'm on this journey of fitness and health and the uncertainty of this curse that comes makes me nervous. Will it be normal this time, will the water retention not be so bad, can I just feel comfortable in my body this month. Does this make sense. Anyone else have some strange issues? I have started talking Ashwagandha, which I think I have mentioned in other posts, hot flashes at night are the worst during my period. I use a heating  pad for cramps, but then I really get sweating. I have castor oil I rub on my stomach and put in my belly button. I'm up for anything to help with the bloating and cramping. What are some suggestions? what do yo guys go through? Have a great day!