Dandelion - when in 2019 did you have your hysterosocopy and what did they find? What was the thickness of your lining and were there any polyps or fibroids that could have caused the bleeding? Did they suggest an explanation if not or what to do about it?
You could still be cycling at age 54 - there are plenty of women who have a late menopause. It depends what your periods were doing before you started HRT ie whether you were missing cycles or going a long time in between periods, and how long ago this was. Is there a pattern to the spotting and bleeding? Keep a diary and make a note of the tender breasts and the period you are getting - when it happens and how often and whether the postting or bleeding stops in between.
You need to know the answers these questions before deciding what to do.
Do try not to worry and hope this helps.
Hurdity x
Hi @Hurdity
I had my hysteroscopy in January 2019.
The hysteroscopy found nothing.
The transvaginal ultrasound before it found a slightly thickened womb lining, 5 0r 5.5 mm as far as I can remember.
No polyps or fibroids.
As for suggestions or explanations, I informed the gynaecologist of my valium situation and an extra vaginal 100mg utro was added to the oral 100mg utro.
He did say to me that if the bleeding persists, I could be back and forth to him.
He said I had a stenosed cervix, it was so closed it wouldn't even let him in with a thin straw like implement to do a biopsy while awake.
I can't really remember my periods before hrt, some were really heavy, late, early but not painful.
I didn't go an especially long time between periods.
I don't know for how long the periods were irregular, I remember in my late thirties having a really heavy one at work. I think I was 36 roughly.
I "think" my periods were normal until early forties, which is when I started perimenopause. Thats when I started getting sweats and flushes at age 42 and "wonky periods"
I do keep a diary, there is no pattern to the spotting or bleeding. I had a massive period in November (I think) and march with great pain and clots, and the recent one in August with pain and clots but not so bad as the others. I get days with watery pink, one recently with red on the tissue at wiping, but mostly brown/yellow. Sometimes dark brown. The vast majority of the time its small amounts of brown, today so far there is a small amount of yellow.
There is mostly something like spotting or brown every day, but I go get the odd day or two with nothing, or just yellow.
I'm worried as I do not really know the answers to the questions except the ones in the diary, I would say I get brown most days, yellow next in order, terracotta, pink watery, and if I am lucky just yellow or occasionally none at all. The tender breasts are random so I can't really check them for lumps.
Do you think there could be a chance, given this information that I could have cancer?