I'll be 44 next month. In my younger days, my periods came like clockwork every 29 days and would last 5 days. Now, they are coming anywhere between 25-27 days usually and this month it's been here for 8 days and the first couple of days was heavier than usual. I can't remember ever having one last this long. The last three days has just been spotting (red). Is this normal with perimenopause?
I have noticed within the last few months I have had some hot flashes...just randomly happening. Anxiety has been AWFUL,I am up two and three times a night and have trouble going back to sleep. I'm going to call the dr. next week, but I just need to know if any of you ladies had peri just slip up on you and then bam! you feel like cr@p. Thanks!
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QUOTE (annem @ Feb 12 2008, 08:36 PM) 
I'll be 44 next month. In my younger days, my periods came like clockwork every 29 days and would last 5 days. Now, they are coming anywhere between 25-27 days usually and this month it's been here for 8 days and the first couple of days was heavier than usual. I can't remember ever having one last this long. The last three days has just been spotting (red). Is this normal with perimenopause?
I have noticed within the last few months I have had some hot flashes...just randomly happening. Anxiety has been AWFUL,I am up two and three times a night and have trouble going back to sleep. I'm going to call the dr. next week, but I just need to know if any of you ladies had peri just slip up on you and then bam! you feel like cr@p. Thanks!
I have noticed within the last few months I have had some hot flashes...just randomly happening. Anxiety has been AWFUL,I am up two and three times a night and have trouble going back to sleep. I'm going to call the dr. next week, but I just need to know if any of you ladies had peri just slip up on you and then bam! you feel like cr@p. Thanks!
Annem,
Welcome to the club!! It definitely sounds to me like you're beginning your peri journey......there are many, many of us on the road right along with you! It's a rough journey, but we're all in this together! As you come to know the wonderful ladies here on PS, you'll realize that you can always count on the fact that no matter what you might be facing at any given moment, there will be someone here that is ready and willing to listen and offer comfort, and that's because we all understand and we care!!
Please visit often and share your concerns with us, okay!
Take care, and God bless!
Deb
Again welcome to the Club....... it does just happen just like that and there are times when you think you are crazy....... But there is always Power Surge 24/7 to ease your mind. Hope your Journey is an easy tranition. We all go through it differently. I can tell you that no matter what new symptom came up for me........... I would just pop on Power Surge and find several woman that were going through the exact same thing!!! You will get great advice and a comforting feeling that you are not alone with all of the wonderful women here.
Be Well and hang in there!
Carolyn
Be Well and hang in there!
Carolyn
Hello annem,
So happy to have you here--this is the most wonderful community of women you can imagine.
Whatever your symptoms, you will find people to empathize or at least sympathize. I have been saved many times from the pits just by coming to the site and reading other women's stories.
Post early and often.
And hang in. It may be a bumpy ride or it may be relatively painless. We just never know.
All the best,
Marcy
So happy to have you here--this is the most wonderful community of women you can imagine.
Whatever your symptoms, you will find people to empathize or at least sympathize. I have been saved many times from the pits just by coming to the site and reading other women's stories.
Post early and often.
And hang in. It may be a bumpy ride or it may be relatively painless. We just never know.All the best,
Marcy
QUOTE (annem @ Feb 12 2008, 09:36 PM)
I'll be 44 next month. In my younger days, my periods came like clockwork every 29 days and would last 5 days. Now, they are coming anywhere between 25-27 days usually and this month it's been here for 8 days and the first couple of days was heavier than usual. I can't remember ever having one last this long. The last three days has just been spotting (red). Is this normal with perimenopause?
I have noticed within the last few months I have had some hot flashes...just randomly happening. Anxiety has been AWFUL,I am up two and three times a night and have trouble going back to sleep. I'm going to call the dr. next week, but I just need to know if any of you ladies had peri just slip up on you and then bam! you feel like cr@p. Thanks!
I have noticed within the last few months I have had some hot flashes...just randomly happening. Anxiety has been AWFUL,I am up two and three times a night and have trouble going back to sleep. I'm going to call the dr. next week, but I just need to know if any of you ladies had peri just slip up on you and then bam! you feel like cr@p. Thanks!
Yep - welcome to the meno-wagon! I am 40 and my periods too, were always every 28 days. Until this last time. My last period was the day after Christmas!
I am getting nervous, wracking my brain and trying to think back if hubby and I could have POSSIBLY gotten me pregnant, but he has had a vasectomy! So yes, this journey is often confusing, filled with daily new symptoms and worries. But fear not my friend - we are here to answer each other's questions and reassure each other that we aren't dying...
Well, I'm still spotting; off and on....usually in the afternoons. I just don't understand how you can go from having a normal, regular period and then BAM! it goes completely out of the norm the next month. I am a worrier by nature and this is just putting my anxiety through the roof. I sit here and read all the posts and feel better for a while and then start worrying again. Thanks, ladies for the support.
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