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[Witchinghour]

Morning all!

I've just had a period (3rd in 6weeks) which was 1 day of light/medium bleeding and then a day of heavy spotting. That's it. It was a 27 day cycle which is the longest I've had in months though.

Usually have short cycles of around 23 days.

I know we're all different and noone can tell but is this what others experienced?

I thought cycles got longer and heavier in peri? Mine are getting shorter and lighter.

I'd be grateful to hear your experience. 

[sheila99]

The only thing guaranteed is that it will all go haywire - long cycles, short cycles, light or missing bleeds, heavy clotty ones, they're all 'normal' for peri so yoh don't need to worry about it.

[CLKD]

Morning. mine waxed and waned 4 several years - gaps, then 'regular', gaps then gone.  Fortuatnely the dreadful pains went with peri..

1 is supposed to count 12 months when we think that periods have finished, however; Mother Nature can throw in a curved ball so we have to begin all over again.

How R your symptoms otherwise?

[SarahT]

Mine, at age 56, have never gone erratic..

 they lightened but I still get pms symptoms every 4 weeks. Without fail...they just Don't seem to want to.let go....

[Witchinghour]

The only thing guaranteed is that it will all go haywire - long cycles, short cycles, light or missing bleeds, heavy clotty ones, they're all 'normal' for peri so yoh don't need to worry about it.

😩 This is probably the thing I find most frustrating! The total lack of consistency.

[Witchinghour]

Morning. mine waxed and waned 4 several years - gaps, then 'regular', gaps then gone.  Fortuatnely the dreadful pains went with peri..

1 is supposed to count 12 months when we think that periods have finished, however; Mother Nature can throw in a curved ball so we have to begin all over again.

How R your symptoms otherwise?

I'm on year 3 of 'irregular' cycles so I hope I'm near the end.  although knowing my luck I'm not!!

Symptoms otherwise are manageable except the total lack of libido and vaginal dryness but I'm not in HRT yet so I'm hopeful it will help... 🤞🏼

[Witchinghour]

Mine, at age 56, have never gone erratic..

 they lightened but I still get pms symptoms every 4 weeks. Without fail...they just Don't seem to want to.let go....

That doesn't seem quite fair, does it!

[meno-mel]

My periods were around 30 days apart when I was young, then they got closer together, for about a year, age 48-49, it was close to 23 day cycles.
Then when I was about 50 they got further apart and I skipped months at a time.
At 51 they stopped for 15 months straight, thereby allowing me to commence on the post menopausal treatments called HRT!
At 52 I was allowed HRT and my periods came back on a roughly 3-5 week cycle, getting longer and lighter each month I've been on HRT.
Now at 53, I've not missed a month in well over a year and I put it down to the fact that the doctors can't decide which HRT to allow me to have and every few months it's changed, usually just as I've got used to it 

[CLKD]

Meno-mel - why R the Doctors changing your regime? 

[meno-mel]

Meno-mel - why R the Doctors changing your regime?

It's been a different reason each time.

Mostly they seem obliged to do something because I bleed past 3 months, then past 6 months and they diagnosed me as post meno over two years ago, so I shouldn't keep bleeding at all.

[jadenatalie123]

I noticed mine not being on time basically to start with, only by a few days here and there. But then I noticed in the lead up to my period id start spotting 5ish days before my 'proper' period would start. then, i started getting clots, some the size of golf balls that id have to actually 'pass' (disgusting!!) and i'd have lots of flooding etc. the clots were the worst for me, the most concerning part. Funnily enough, i went to about 3 gynae's who said massive clots are ok!!! - went to an endocrinologist and she couldnt believe i'd been fobbed off for so long and diagnosed me as peri

xx

[Cara999]

Mine started becoming irregular at the age of 40, now 48 and they are roughly 6 weeks a part sometimes a few months in between. They can be very light or heavy!! I'm hoping they are on there way out xx