Interesting article here on how to estimate how close to menopause you are...

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CY..._37/ai_90792556

If this is right, I'm not even close. My running range is about 4. Rats.

I have one word.....WHAT????

I will have to see if my math wiz of a husband can help me on this becuase when it comes to #s like this my eyes glaze over.

maybe you can help me if this is really a gage...my periods have been out of sync for 3 years now...recently my longest span between was 58 days and now since it has started 2 weeks ago tomorrow I seemed to have stopped on the 13th for 3 days and thought I felt side pain and then all of a sudden I start to bleed again this mon. and think ok it is probably going to just be spotting as I have been spotting faze for weeks in the past, but it has turned into a full blown period again...my shortest in the past woulod have been something like 2 weeks between, but this takes the cake. I thought with the span of 58 days I would just trail off from here, I even bought my vitamins last time with no iron seeing as I was having was less loss, but don't get this week between at all, I mean I had 3 days off. So there are my #'s if you could help my meno brain get through it.....oh my fsh is 66 I saw that in the article too. Thanks Mikki

I read this article and was very confused. Probably need to read more slowly and pay attention to the math. I have had irregular periods for awhile. Mostly running 16-18 days apart for a month or two, go back to normal for a few months, etc..
This year I went approximately 90 days with no visible period. I would have other symptoms and feel like I was getting ready to start, but then no bleeding. Now I have the exact opposite. I have had a period that has lasted for more than four weeks. It started out regular, then went to just spotting, then back to regular, and so on... (Never really heavy though) I am going to the Doctor tomorrow. Hopefully I will get some answers. I know from others posts that this can be normal, but because the symptoms mimic other problems (other than peri) I am freaking out.

Kate

I read this through twice and I am so confused as to how they calculate this!!

This is an interesting article. I am still trying to figure it out but it sounds like the difference between cycle lengths is the gauge rather than the length of the cycles.

Let me guess.............A man must have written this article!!!!!!! No one has to calculate anything to tell me I'm in peri-menopause!!!
"Studies" like this just irritate the hell out of me.

Well, I went back and looked and a woman wrote the article, but a MAN did the "studies!"

If your periods are the bane of your existence, then research like this is very helpful in calculating how much longer they might go on. It gives me hope that the end is near.