I need advice on the menopause, ladies or Doctors only please?
I am 50 years old and a year ago i went for some tests as i had heavy periods, they said i had a ovarian cyst and a small fibroid but that i had no precancerous cells in the womb and that everything was fine, but was peri menopausal , and as i am that age i accepted that i now Old have all kinds of strange things to put up with, BUT, i am still worried and need to know if what i am experiencing is normal or have i a bout of paranoia, i have just had a period on 22nd dec lasting 7 days and now i am having another after being off for a week, my mum died of cancer of the womb so i am getting stressed but dont want to keep pestering the Doctor as i have already had tests done, is there anyone that can give me advice? Thankyou
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I am in my late stages of perimenopause – haven’t had a period for 9 months, so I’m hoping in 3 months I can bake a Menopause cake and it’ll all be over for good
Perimenopause can last up to 10 years, but typically more like 6. The first signs are hot flashes, headaches, depression and/or anger, bloatedness, possible weight gain in the tummy and eventually heavier periods (hemorrhaging) with painful cramping. The heavy periods lasted about 2 years for me, then I would miss two months and the third month would be a 2 or 3 week period-this lasted about another year, and every month I would still have PMS symptoms. Then, the periods just started getting further and further apart. As they got further apart this last year, I noticed that I was no longer having PMS symptoms at all, though I still get stressed and depressed occasionally. I didn’t take hormone replacement in any of that time. I thought that it is a natural process to be losing the hormones, so why should I replace them. Some other interesting side-effects: You can become forgetful, forget words mid sentence, and your sense of smell will actually become better.
You said that you had a fibroid. Did they remove it or fix it? They grow and make your periods longer and heavier. I had surgery to cut the blood flow to them done on mine. It slowly got better and not is back to normal.