Menopause Matters Forum
Menopause Discussion => All things menopause => Topic started by: Dorothy on April 23, 2018, 09:23:31 AM
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Ok, so this is probably a weird one to be worrying about, but has anyone else experienced this?
All my life I have suffered from incredibly painful period pains (the bent double, being sick, blacking out kind) Even on the pill, I still had cramps although they were not as bad and I could continue a normal life. And while timing and heaviness has fluctuated during peri, I always get the pain.
Last week, I had the shaky feeling that I get when I'm about to start bleeding, but no pain but when I went to the loo I realised I'd started bleeding and quite heavily. Is it normal for periods to suddenly go pain-free when you are going through peri? In one way it's great, in another it's really, really weird and since I don't have a recognizable pattern to my bleeds now, I'm getting a bit twitchy that the next one will catch me out!
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Like you I suffered and I don't use that word lightly. I dreaded the next period :'(. I went on the Pill which helped enormously. Last period was in 2002 but occasionally I get those feelings of 'cramp' and think "Not after all these years!" fortunately, no bleed.
You'll need to keep a note of each period again probably ......... and carry protection ;-)
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I keep a note anyway because the GP always asks how many periods I've 'missed' although it's been so jolly erratic I'm not sure - sometimes I've barely finished one before another starts and another time there's a loooooong gap, so does that count as missing or was the middle one just very very early?! I'm not complaining about the lack of pain - it's very nice! - it's just very unnerving to suddenly produce so much blood with no warning it's about to happen!