Peri-MENTALpause!!
 

How old were you when you were totally done!! This is DRIVING ME MAD!! I am 52 and STILL have my monthly...Sometimes I know when it's going to happen...sometimes I don't! Sometimes is bad...sometimes it isn't!!! Some months I have one...some months I dont! I would think at 52 I would be DONE WITH THE CURSE!!

Can't help with an answer. I had a hysterectomy at 36. Hang in there.

I'm 52 too. I started to stop a few years ago and was put on Prempro for the mood swings and started back up but when I went off of it I quit completely. I haven't had a period for 2 years. Everyone is different and I guess your body just isn't ready yet. I will tell you that it's nice that I don't have to worry about that any more.

I'm sorry! I was done at 48 - that was 9 years ago!!! YIKES - has it been THAT long - yep, I guess so!

It's GREAT to be done. :D

I'm 54 but had a complete hysterectomy in 2001. I take Premarin to help with the hot flashes. I tried going off of them and it was hell. So I'm taking them again, but the lowest dose possible.

You don't want to hear my answer..
I was done -Totally done- at 42 or 43... took me two years from beginning to end.. pretty smooth it was. I don't take any hormone therapy.

I heard years ago that the sooner you start (monthly) the longer you go, and the later you start (monthly), the sooner you stop.

Good luck! Hope it ends for you soon!!

Shada...I have heard the same thing...I started at 13 yrs old...would that be early or late!! LOL...This is just driving me INSANE!! I never know when I am going to have Aunt "Flow" over for a visit!! This is one Aunt I would like to never see again!

Oh, Brenda, wish I could help. I'm 55, but I had a complete hysterectomy in 1995, so never went through menopause. So hope that this all stops for you very, very soon!!!

Marilyn, lucky you - I still had menopause!

I had a complete hysterectomy at 44. It was GREAT!!! I still take a very low dose of estrogen. Menopause is MENTAL...makes you crazy!!

Hope you get through this soon....it can't be fun!

I started at 17 remember my mum takeing me to the doctors as I had not started but came on shortly after. Am now 54 and have not seen any thing for two years,messed about on and off for a few months then nowt :). Apart from hot flushes happy to say no real problems, I do take herbal tablets so may be that has helped the flushes ect.

Brenda I am in your shoes .. If you search threads about three weeks ago I was having a very heavy period. I am 52 also and my period comes and goes for a few mts. and then resumes again. Like I mention last mt. it was very bad I was bleeding heavily, I thought that I was going to have to go to the gyno but it stopped and got lighter the next day.

I don't know how true it is but I hear that if you don't get your period after a year you can assume that it is gone... I AM WAITING!!!!

I had what Gina is having, but because of fibroid cysts. I remember never knowing when I was going to be "flowing." It was awful. I bled so much. I think it took 2 or 3 years and then it gradually stopped. Gina is right. After a year of not having it, you're pretty much there. I did get it after almost a year, but it was light and only once.

I am so glad to be done with that! I do take hormone therapy 3 times/week.
It's a very low dose too.

Hang in there. It will stop, and then you can never worry about keeping all that equipment in your bag.

What herbal tablets do you take if you don't mind me asking?



Can you share your hormone therapy? I take Premarin 0.3 MG everyday. Would love to not have to take it everyday.

Judy I have fibroid cysts too. My gyno said they will shrink as I lose my period..

I remember your post about it Gina. They do go away. In fact, mine are probably completely gone by now. I went to my gyno and she didn't even mention them, so I guess they are not there!

[QUOTE=Janet;94345]What herbal tablets do you take if you don't mind me asking?




I take a herbal tablet called m-pause /www.healthydirect.com/product/MPAUS/d.jsf
I find it really helps with the hot flushes and mood swings, I also take a combined tablet Glucosamine,chondroitin with infamol for my joint pains.
If you cannot get the link to see what the m-pause contents are let me know and i'll forward to you.

Gina and Judy....
 

I also have a very small fibroid in my uterus. I can go a month with a period then have an EXTREMELY light one for a couple of months then all of a sudden....BLAM! I feel like I am going to bleed to death! One period was so bad I thought I was going to have to go to the hospital...It did finally slow down. I know that it will stop soon but.....NOT SOON ENOUGH!! The longest I have gone without one was 2 months...then right back to every month. I have also heard that once you have gone a year without one that you are now in menopause...hmmmmm! notice how menopause has the word MEN in it!! LOL...no wonder it's a pain!! (jk)

It will go away Brenda....take a deep breath, and wait it out. It is not fun!

Thanks Judy...I have been taken so many deep breaths I think I'm going to start to hyperventilate!! LOL...I do get hot flashes but those come and go as well.,,.Well guess what! They are now here again....I think that once we are done having children and are up in age that GOD should make everything dry up and fall out!! LOL!

I think he does. I wonder why he makes menopause so difficult. :confused: