does the menopause ever end?

msmicawber

I'm much the same as you Pollycat - a bit tired and the odd hot flush but nothing much else other than periods that I think have stopped ... until they start again (painfully) many months later. This has been going on for about 5 years though I'm in my 40s, so earlier than I was expecting.

Errata

Pollycat wrote: »

I'm very interested in this thread.

I'm 55 later this year and thought I was menopausal (rather than peri-menopausal) as my last period was mid July 2006!
A whopping 21 months ago!
Before that one it was a 7 month gap.
Until yesterday - I just can't believe it - I really thought I'd done with all that.
I've been doubled up with pain too (my periods were always painful).
Is this normal?

I seem to have got away quite lightly with other symptoms, the occasional hot flush, some tiredness but other than that, I'm in quite good health.

Sorry if this is not OK to post as it's a medical sort of issue.
Thanks
Polly

Why not have a quick chat with a practice nurse? It would set your mind at rest.

Pollycat

Thanks guys.
I think I'm going to chat to my doctor about it as I have a couple of other things that aren't important enough on their own to make an appointment, so I'll do it all in one go.

I was really just wondering if anyone else around my age had had such a long time between periods then started again.

Polly

dorry_2

Pollycat wrote: »

Thanks guys.
I think I'm going to chat to my doctor about it as I have a couple of other things that aren't important enough on their own to make an appointment, so I'll do it all in one go.

I was really just wondering if anyone else around my age had had such a long time between periods then started again.

Polly

Polly,

you are considered by the medical profession to have entered the menopause once you have not had a period for 1 year.

I would mention the period to your doc or nurse, see what they think?

love dorry

Pollycat

Thanks, Dorry.

I read on a website that when a woman hasn't had a period for a year, she's is said to have reached the menopause - exactly as you say.

So, at my age, I thought that was it!
But it's not!
Arghhhhh :mad:

I'll see what the doc says.

seashore321

I think I may have just started the menopause so this thread is great!!

Tried asking my mum but she is 86 ad still on HRT!!
Needless to say she cannot remember the symptoms, just says she felt like she was going up ad down in a lift and felt like killing people.

So just as normal then.

86 and still on HRT unusual yes but they reckon if she came off it the side effects would be terrible!! And she has never had any adverse effetcs from taking it for 30 years!

barginunter

Hi guys, though I'd join in the discussion. I was confirmed as menopausal at 43 - I'm 52 now. I was on HRT for the first 4 years - I tried loads of different ones. I decided to go off it so started to take Evening Primrose Oil and Black Cohosh and weaned myself off HRT. Now 5 years on I take EPO, Soya Isoflavones, various other vitamins and supplements and have very few hot flushes. The most beneficial thing I do is have my breakfast cereal with soya milk - an aquired taste but fabulous in porridge. I f go away for a few days and I still take the supplements but don't have the soya milk, I get the flushes back very quickly.
My experience is that any supplement you try you must give it a few months to kick in.

noonesperfect

I think I may have started my peri-menopause.

It's early days, I've only missed two periods, but I'm 48 in a couple of months so I think it must be that.

With hindsight I've had odd menopausal symptoms here and there over the past 2 or 3 years, but my periods have remained regular and normal (for me ).
My skin has suddenly got incredibly dry and I've gained a stone in the past year.

A friend has said I should go to the doctor and see about getting HRT, but I don't see any point yet - the time will come when I need it soon enough :eek: . I'm not sure whether I should go and see my GP just to confirm this is the case?

Incidentally, does HRT count as one prescription or two?

Horace

Hi - my chap has decided that I am menopausal because he claims that I roast when I am asleep:eek: I always get hot at night so that's not a new thing for me. I admit to putting on a bit of weight lately but put that down to the change of contraceptive - am now on mini-pill (never had the weight problem with the combined pill at all). I am 46 (47 this year) and feel hunky dory. How will I be able to tell whether I am menopausal or not?

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

I'd be interested in anyone taking HRT.I had a hysterectomy when I was 27,I'm now 53 and have been on HRT(PREMARIN 1.25) since the hysterectomy.The thing is recently I've been getting hot flushes,night sweats and palpitations along with mood swings.Should I be getting symptoms of the menopause if I'm on HRT.Thanks.