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[Tigger99]

Hi Ladies

I haven't been on for a while but need some advice again now about my periods and wondering if this has happened to any of you.
I had a normal period back in July and my next one was due about 26th August. I went away on holiday and then about 2 weeks after my last period finished it seemed to start aging. It was not heavy bleeding just a bit reddish on the loo roll. This continued until my period should have started on approx. 25Aug which it did and it was then a normal period. My period finished and then I had the next one approx. 28 days later which is normal for me. My next period is due the 18th October but when I went to the loo this morning i have a little bit of blood again on the paper. It's nothing heavy and I have no pain or any other symptons. I am guessing this light bleeding will now continue until my period starts properly in just over a weeks time.
I guess my guestion is can you periods get closer together during peri? Have others experienced this and if you have why was it? I am going to visit my gp but as we usually find they are never very helpful when you mention meno.
I know all you lovely ladies on here are much more helpful.
Thanks for listening 

[honeybun]

It sounds completely normal to me. They can be further apart, lighter, heavier, last for weeks or not show at all.
It's the joys of peri I'm afraid.

It's down to fluctuating hormones. Usually as long as you are getting some kind of period the other peri symptoms are not too bad.


Honeyb
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[Taz2]

Hi Tigger - yes it's normal, frustrating and annoying.. but normal 

The production of hormones can vary immensely during peri so your normal cycle becomes increasingly haphazard. They are switched on or off at the wrong times so leading your body to begin to shed the womb lining but then the mix is changed again and the shedding stops. Lots of us have gone through stages of periods being sometimes only ten days apart and then six months apart followed by being regular for a while. Some members go almost for a whole year before they start again.

Taz x 

[Machair]

I just had exactly the same thing at the end of last year and also again in March-May. It was just as you describe - bleeding for a bit before the period got going, then tailing off but taking forever to finish. I was never sure if it was three periods close together, or one lasting a month or more. However I haven't had anything since May 27th so it could be you are about to skip several as I have.

This forum kept me sane when I was going through this 

[Jane44]

Hi thanks so much for sharing your experience with me looking back at your posts and others it seems a common thing. I suppose in my mind I have been counting the fresh red as a period and thinking its a period and the other stuff is spotting but really I think it's a long lasting period taking ages to finish . It has now after 18 days,,, also have had the palpitations now have thrush symptoms oh the joys. I think it's when you compare with friends they talk of heavy long lasting periods which is much worse but more common, which makes me feel different. I don't have post coital bleeding. Just hope they stop soon. I tool have had the strange watery loss and days when I think I am multiple ovulating lots of clear stretchy egg white mucous but no period 14 days later so that couldn't have been ovulation .. Oh to live this journey backwards then we would have all the answers.
Thanks for sharing your journeys x