Menopause Matters Forum
Menopause Discussion => All things menopause => Topic started by: mandy43 on May 01, 2014, 08:52:11 PM
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Hi Girls. Has anyone had a period that just doesn't seem to end? I got a period just under two weeks after my last one, so barely any break really. It was heavyish for a week but has continued tailing off for another week now. There isn't much there and gets slightly more noticeable if I exercise, but the bottom of my back is really aching. My periods are all over the place and I just want to hear if other ladies have been through this?
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All that nonsense started for me October of 2010. Periods were all over the place, 25 day, 47, 18, 105, you get the picture. Some would end like normal, some lingered on.
I started charting my basal body temperature (free sites on the internet), I soon realized that I was rarely ovulating, I had a long stretch of no ovulation and then had random episodes of spotting.
Last fall after spotting for about 5 weeks, I went to the dr. had endo biopsy and ultrasound, blood work and pap. Biopsy was normal,ultrasound showed fibroids, bloodwork showed FSH 56.3. = Menopause.
My dr said when we don't ovulate regularly, our lining doesn't shed regularly either ... it can come heavy, spotty, not at all and everything inbetween. The never ending spotting scared me .. she told me it was the fibroids doing that.
It stopped 5 months ago, I wait every day for it to return. I hope it never does.
My guess is, you're fine, it feels SO abnormal to us because it's not what we are accustomed to with our cycles. Drs usually like to check to make sure all is healthy, usually it's just pesky perimenopause.
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I had a period that lasted on and off for 3 months and yes, I always bled more when I exercised. I had scan and nothing to worry about. Interestingly eventually i was put on transexamic acid cos had such heavy bleeding at times. I have now had no bleeding for 3 weeks! Feels like a lifetime.
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thanks so much for your replies, feel better to know I'm not alone. I will make an appt to see the doc, to get checked if it doesn't stop by next week.