Hi, I'm new here and I'm pretty sure I've been peri menopausal for going on 10 years. Hot flushes, very irregular periods etc. I'm 51 and been hoping for THE END for a good while now. Thing is the blasted thing s don't seem to want to leave me.
All through my life my periods have been irregular and up until about 10 years ago my cycle would be anything from 18 days to 28 almost never longer, then 10 years ago it started stretching out. The longest I've been between has been abou 10 weeks.
I always was the “sympathetic†one, what I mean is it was always my cycles that changed to make me “in tune†with those around me.
Over the last coupl3 of years this has become ridiculous though....I haven't had a permanent desk at work and my cycles have gone like this 6 months of spot on 4 weeks whilst I shared an office with a lady in her 30s who was on the pill, followed by an office move to a room on my own 6 or 7 months with or 4 periods spaced at about 7-8 weeks apart. 10 months sharing a room with 2 post menopause women - only 2 very very light dark old looking blood type periods, both coincidentally when I was away from office for over a week. Then, the killer, moved into an office with a teenager and wham bam thank you mam, back in full force 2 weeks later (started the same day as she did) for the next 3 months I'm totally in cynic with her again with full blown periods. 3 months ago I move into a room with 2 men, no periods, until my daughter comes to visit, and guess what she is with us for 3 days before her period starts and once agin, I've started bleeding again within 24 hours.
Has this happened to anyone else?
I'm told I am naturally empathetic but this is, excuse the pun, bloody ridiculous