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[Machair]

I can't thank you Elizabethrose, and all the ladies on here enough for taking the time to write answers like this. This is so helpful to me personally as I am in this boat and now I feel more normal and less alone.xx

I totally agree about the fluctuating hormonal surges, at the moment I am in a high oestrogen phase as I am sleeping well and have no night sweats and copious mucus though am rather hot at night still. Tomorrow may bring the opposite as it has before.

All feels like PMT especially when oestrogen is high.

[Elizabethrose]

No need to thank me Machair. This has gone on for so long for me that the only way I could feel normal was to seek answers, to understand what was happening. Online menopause literature just doesn't give detail about anything that doesn't fit the norm. Trouble is, what is normal, we are all so very different!

Knowledge is power! This site allows us to 'meet' other women experiencing similar symptoms, stages etc. It's nice to know that it's normal not to fit the norm!!

I said in an earlier post that some of my migraine symptoms are utterly ridiculous, you'd almost be afraid to tell anyone in case they think you're crazy, However, speaking to specialists was hugely reassuring because as they said, 'Oh yes, that's pretty common'.

I hope things start to calm for you soon: honestly and truly I feel so much better since I just decided to live each day and see what it brings. We WILL get through this, we can't still be menstruating at 80. Look for the positive - no night sweats whilst on an oestrogen high - catch up on your sleep!

All good wishes to you x

[Machair]

 Just wondering Elizabethrose how many days do you have the copious cervical mucus with these oestrogen surges? I am having days and days of it at the moment just like mid cycle. It comes out clear and watery and stains pants yellow and looks very fertile! Shouldn't grumble though sleep is wonderful - even managed an almost full night without waking! Anyone else have this mucus at random not just mid cycle?

[Elizabethrose]

Hot flushes stopped on the 6th June and cervical mucus started; 11 days - still happening! No night sweats at the moment (thank goodness) but waking suddenly at about 4.30am and wide awake! 

[Machair]

Do you think you will have another period? I find the way I feel to be almost like PMT so it is hard to tell what is coming next!

[Elizabethrose]

The longest cycle I ever had was 67 days, now 183: it's like counting down for Christmas! However, this body of mine just doesn't want to give up: it keeps doing it's damnedest to crank-start these ancient follicles! I think I must have FSH oozing through my pores!

I think it might be, just from this experience being different this time. I know though, that I'm ever the optimist!!

[Machair]

I do wonder if it is somewhere in our genetics. My great grandmother had 14 children- her last one was when she was almost 50. Many of my friends were finished with periods well before then.

[Elizabethrose]

It is absolutely believed that there is a link with genetics that's why they ask about maternal history. Unfortunately it didn't apply in my case, as I said before. I think I'm so fertile that if it wasn't for scrupulous determination I'd have as many as your Great Grandmother! Conceived first try with my children and knew I was pregnant immediately.

Even though it's a pain in the neck having a late meno there must be a benefit for our bones, heart health and the million other conditions women suffer from as a result of diminished oestrogen. Reading about the vaginal atrophy on this site, gives me the heebie-jeebies!

[Machair]

I also conceived all 5 of my pregnancies in the first month as well so maybe this is significant.

My Mum had infertility, endometriosis and fibroids, and had a hysterectomy at 42 and had only one child with difficulty. So she never knew what her menopause age would have been. My gran however, her Mum, used to tell horror stories of how she had flooded settees in the change so who knows? She lived to 102!

[Elizabethrose]

Oh my Lord (on so many counts!). Five, well done you! 102 - haha hope you have a jolly good pension!!

Could be an absolute coincidence but it does make you wonder. I have never had really heavy periods, even in peri. Though saying that I do remember one with giant clots and I knew I wasn't pregnant otherwise I might have thought it a miscarriage. I think that was about 13 years ago and early peri.

[Machair]

I had five pregnancies, sadly one ended in miscarriage, and one of my pregnancies was twins, but only one went to term so I have 4 children, well I say children, the eldest is 32 and the youngest is 24. I am keeping records of my menopause for my two daughters, as they will then have something to guide them.

[Elizabethrose]

Oh I'm so sorry to hear of your losses, how very sad x

It's quite scary when you think of the ages of our offspring: how is it possible - I'm only 21?!

That is such good idea about keeping notes, however if they're anything like my daughter they'll be well versed in the perils of peri!! I think, if possible, she is already as, or even more, sensitive to hormone activity than me. What a worry. Hopefully by the time she hits peri the medics will be all singing, all dancing and have been whipped into shape by us powerful, educated, forceful women! It's appalling that so little time is spent educating our GPs on peri/meno.

[Machair]

How are you doing Elizabethrose? I am having a massive oestrogen surge so no idea what is coming next. Sleeping well though so some compensation.

[Elizabethrose]

Hi Machair

Hope you're well aside from the pesky hormones!

Still have the oestrogen high, 21 days now. Endless cervical mucus and breast discomfort but breasts are not as sore or swollen as when I usually have a surge. I'm just glad not to see an anovulatory bleed. 193 days since last period - but who's counting?!

Yes you are absolutely right, it is a joy to be able to sleep through the night, I have a spring in my step again! No hot flushes or night sweats since the 6th June when the oestrogen surged and apart from a couple of tricky days, the migraines have been easier. I'm clearly maintaining an oestrogen level - be it ever so high!!

I've everything crossed at the moment as I have a screamingly busy next three weeks with weddings and graduation ceremonies, travel and other jollies and I am praying that the high is maintained to get me through. If it plunges I'll be descended into the depths of hell as the migraine will become a constant for a week or two. It's like living on a knife edge.

Still no results, utterly unbelievable! I think I may ring and read the riot act today!

[Machair]

Now have PMT off the scale. Really bad this one is and finding everything irritating. Having to eat good carbs every 3 hours - will a period arrive?- I hope so!