If you have reached, or gone through menopause, what happened exactly? Did your periods become more frequent and then just stop? Or what? Did you ever wonder if you were pregnant at 50? Pain? Crampiness? Please share. I need voices of experience!
2006-09-12 03:26:45 · 3 answers · asked by ? 2 in Health ➔ Women's Health
It actually varies from woman to woman but I'll give this a shot.
Hold that thought, gonna post then edit.
A friend of mine started having periods, normal periods, every two weeks. I went the opposite way and had short periods every six weeks.
We both had the crampy, yuck feelings that went with them.
For her, after about a six months of this, the periods spread out to match mine, but by that time, I was having very little in the way of them.
She went for about a year having light ones, then started skipping months. This went on for about another year before she finally stopped for good.
I on the other hand, experienced this 'stopping' sooner than she did. I'd go two or three months without one then have a very light one, just enough to pizz me off. (The kind that are too light to really do anything about, but too heavy NOT do anything about). Then it'd be another four months and I'd have a little spotting. Then another six months and while I'd get crampy, nothing would happen. Then, they just disappeared!! It's been almost two years now and I don't miss them a bit!!!
I never worried about the pregnant thing since I had a tubal years ago. But she wondered about it a few times, right around the dates she used to start she'd start feeling yucky and wonder about it. She never was though and she took more than one HPT to make sure.
2006-09-12 03:30:29 · answer #1 · answered by Lucianna 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have treated lots of women who are going through menopause and the symptoms are so variable and individual it is difficult to give a specific answer.
Some women's periods literally just stop and they have no symptoms (although some do a pregnancy test just to be sure).
Some can have irregular periods for several years which tend to be heavy and sometimes painful.
Other symptoms may include hot flushes, vaginal dryness, indigestion, weight gain, etc.
Please remember HRT just delays the onset of menopause and when you come off it, symptoms will resume.
Best wishes.
2006-09-12 10:37:29 · answer #2 · answered by Kate 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I haven't gotten there yet. But I'm rubbin' up so close to 50, I can hear it squeak!
2006-09-12 10:31:51 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋