Matryoshka Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Just curious. Partly because my cloth pads are getting ratty, but it seems silly to buy new ones at 50. :D But I have no idea when this stuff will actually finish up. My cycles are a bit shorter and a bit closer together than they were, but that just makes them more like everyone else's normal ones. No other symptoms I can tell; except my hair is getting straighter. :confused1: Does it just sort of end for some people without a pronounced perimenopause phase? How long could this go on? Can I assume the end is in sight sometime in the reasonably close future?? Or should I buy some new pads... :gnorsi: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tammi K Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 I'm 53 and my gyn said she expects me to keep going until at least 55. So, perhaps you better not retire them yet..... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtomom Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Do you know when your mother/her sisters went through? That would give you a better idea. The average age range really varies a lot from woman to woman. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peach Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 I just had a hysterectomy in August but kept my ovaries. The doc said they were perfectly healthy and looked nowhere near being ready to shut down. I am 52. The women in my family hit menopause late though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cave canem Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 No other symptoms I can tell; except my hair is getting straighter. :confused1: Does it just sort of end for some people without a pronounced perimenopause phase? Awwww, lucky! Where can I sign up for that? Mine is getting kinkier by the day. Other than that, no real symptoms here, either. I don't think it is too unusual. Lee in New England Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenNC Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 53 here as well. I've finally started occasionally skipping months, but not regularly. Looks like I both started early (age 9) and will end late. Lucky me! :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 It will show up as soon as you buy new pads. 21 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joanne Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Idk. I am nearly 50 and "in menopause" according to blood tests. Symptoms are mainly related to my periods - unpredictable and hemorrhage level bleeding. I wonder each time if I should go to the ER. I hope this doesn't last YEARS!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carol in Cal. Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 53 or 54 IIRC. I wasn't keeping track very much by then. Maybe 55. It was so fun when the storm before the calm gave way to little tiny mini-periods about two months apart. I was so grateful. And so it was such a gradual, subtle taper that I didn't really notice a specific date. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VANURSEPRAC Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 I had my 5y/o Mirena removed and bleed for 3 weeks. Absolutely nothing since them, I am almost 49...........No sure if my periods are officially over yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carol in Cal. Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Idk. I am nearly 50 and "in menopause" according to blood tests. Symptoms are mainly related to my periods - unpredictable and hemorrhage level bleeding. I wonder each time if I should go to the ER. I hope this doesn't last YEARS!! Um. Sometimes it does. I wore those very large supersize me overnight pads AND superplus internals, AND ran to the bathroom every 45 - 60 minutes during the day for several years of monthlies, wait, of 'every three weeklies'. I invested heavily in black bottoms--jeans, pants, skirts, shorts, you name it. What I probably should have invested in was stock in whatever companies make Motrin. And I got through it. Now I can truly appreciate menopause for the relief it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie G Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 My mother and both sisters all had their last periods at 47. I'm the youngest so I was pretty happy the year I turned 47 because I was sure I would get the gift of menopause. But nope...periods kept coming, more frequently and crazy heavy at times. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52 was better...they were less frequent. Finally at 53 it stopped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldberry Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 My mother was in her early fifties when her doc told her he really hoped she was still using birth control because her uterus was "just beautiful!" I think she stopped at 55. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punks in Ontario Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 For those "flood" days, I finally went to a cup. So much less likely to overflow. I still have to check every couple of hours some days, but it helps a lot. Sorry, 50 here and no signs of things stopping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joanne Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Um. Sometimes it does. I wore those very large supersize me overnight pads AND superplus internals, AND ran to the bathroom every 45 - 60 minutes during the day for several years of monthlies, wait, of 'every three weeklies'. I invested heavily in black bottoms--jeans, pants, skirts, shorts, you name it. What I probably should have invested in was stock in whatever companies make Motrin. And I got through it. Now I can truly appreciate menopause for the relief it is. Um, yea. It is BAD. I don't want to get too graphic but there have been moments of severe professional terror. I am seriously considering a hysterectomy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Menopause is the day you have not had a cycle for a year. - before that is perimenopause. Average is supposedly 52. I'm not doing that. I are you regularly skipping? My Dr won't do blood tests until cycle is regularly at least 90 days apart. Until then you're likely to have normal cycle related hormone fluctuations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 I had my 5y/o Mirena removed and bleed for 3 weeks. Absolutely nothing since them, I am almost 49...........No sure if my periods are officially over yet. If you go a year, you're done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 If you go a year, you're done. Everyone I am talking to says that isn't true and that they have gotten periods after going an entire year without. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 the oldest age possible? I have no idea but i do have a sinking feeling I am personally going to find out. Every month I feel like this is NEVER going to end!! My poor eggs. They must be so bored..and tired of coming down that damn tube every month for no good reason. I am 48 and I am very regular. I have never skipped a month. I just want it to stop. I am so over this. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie G Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Everyone I am talking to says that isn't true and that they have gotten periods after going an entire year without. I recently heard that and to be honest it made me mad. When that 365th day passes, it's just downright cruel to think it might not be the end of Aunt Flo. I've always heard that if there is any bleeding after a year that it's abnormal and you should see a doctor. I'm clinging to the hope that these people who have periods after a year are the same people who don't track their cycles and might really be wrong about how long it's been. I've got years and years of my data- one thing I'm good at is data collection. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 the oldest age possible? I have no idea but i do have a sinking feeling I am personally going to find out. Every month I feel like this is NEVER going to end!! My poor eggs. They must be so bored..and tired of coming down that damn tube every month for no good reason. I am 48 and I am very regular. I have never skipped a month. I just want it to stop. I am so over this. I didn't start skipping until my 50s. I started a new rx - unrelated - and I was back to clockwork. For months. I'm having lots of estrogen flushes between cycles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasider Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 I just had a hysterectomy in August but kept my ovaries. The doc said they were perfectly healthy and looked nowhere near being ready to shut down. I am 52. The women in my family hit menopause late though. With this scenario, what's your prognosis for hormone production? My uterus needs to be retired, but I'm not ready to give up the estrogen factory just yet! I have a checkup end of this month and think I might talk to my doc about it. I am over 50 with no signs of cycles ending, even after a uterine ablation 4 years ago. A friend of mine in her mid 60s said she didn't stop until after she turned 58. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasider Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 My Dr won't do blood tests until cycle is regularly at least 90 days apart. Until then you're likely to have normal cycle related hormone fluctuations. My doc tells me the same thing. She said she could blood test every day for a week and, at my age, each set of results would be different. I've been trying to decide if, at my upcoming visit, I should say, "just for the heck of it..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matryoshka Posted October 21, 2015 Author Share Posted October 21, 2015 Menopause is the day you have not had a cycle for a year. - before that is perimenopause. Average is supposedly 52. I'm not doing that. I are you regularly skipping? My Dr won't do blood tests until cycle is regularly at least 90 days apart. Until then you're likely to have normal cycle related hormone fluctuations. Nop, not skipping. In fact, I've never been more regular. Used to be wildly irregular. Had to go through treatments for my twins. Now that I'm waaaay done, things have evened out. Yipee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trulycrabby Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Idk. I am nearly 50 and "in menopause" according to blood tests. Symptoms are mainly related to my periods - unpredictable and hemorrhage level bleeding. I wonder each time if I should go to the ER. I hope this doesn't last YEARS!! Sorry, but it did for me. I finally had to take provera, then have a d&c to get it settled down. If you are willing and able to take hormonal therapy, you might consider the provera. The bleeding lasted about three years, then I finally went into menopause. Take iron supplements too; liquid floridex really helped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matryoshka Posted October 21, 2015 Author Share Posted October 21, 2015 It will show up as soon as you buy new pads. Yep, this is also my prediction. .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abba12 Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Reading these stories makes me almost feel guilty for my ridiculously light periods. I wear one regular pad per day, and one per night, only changing it at the end of the day for sanitary reasons (after the first two days it is nowhere near full), and aside from the first night I don't bleed at all overnight because I'm lying down. I sometimes worry there's something wrong with me that I don't bleed enough, but I have three healthy babies so it can't be too bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 the oldest age possible? I have no idea but i do have a sinking feeling I am personally going to find out. Nah. You'd schedule a hysterectomy before it got that bad. I had a relative who was still going in her 70's. And another who was done at 35. I wish I took after this one, but alas, it seems not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasider Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Seventy?!!! Egads... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasmama Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 I had a uterine ablation several years ago because of very heavy periods, and it was a great solution for me. Not everyone is a candidate, but I was a good one. I have not had a period since, and it has been lovely. I still have cycles, but no bleeding. I am in perimenopause now. I will be 49 in January. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Nop, not skipping. In fact, I've never been more regular. Used to be wildly irregular. Had to go through treatments for my twins. Now that I'm waaaay done, things have evened out. Yipee. I was NEVER regular. until I started perimenopause. then I was like clockwork . . . . 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 It will show up as soon as you buy new pads. for me it only shows up if I run out and don't buy anymore. If I have a supply - nothing. well, alot of other symptoms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie G Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 I was NEVER regular. until I started perimenopause. then I was like clockwork . . . . That's what happened to me! Infertility for years because I didn't ovulate or my periods ranged from 30-300 days apart. But when I was well past taking fertility drugs to have children and fully ready to be done with periods, they became regular. Grr. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefgazer Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Yeah, my hair is doing this to me also. It's weird. Anyway, my mom had an abrupt menopause with few peri-menopause symptoms. When I asked her what I could expect (because I am 52 and no flaming obvious signs, she said "Gee, I don't remember. It was a non-event." For her, one month it was a normal period, the next month - nothing - and gone forever. It seems like I am on this pathway, as well. What was your mother like? That might give you a clue as to what is in store for you. Just curious. Partly because my cloth pads are getting ratty, but it seems silly to buy new ones at 50. :D But I have no idea when this stuff will actually finish up. My cycles are a bit shorter and a bit closer together than they were, but that just makes them more like everyone else's normal ones. No other symptoms I can tell; except my hair is getting straighter. :confused1: Does it just sort of end for some people without a pronounced perimenopause phase? How long could this go on? Can I assume the end is in sight sometime in the reasonably close future?? Or should I buy some new pads... :gnorsi: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefgazer Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Holy crap!!! :ohmy: Nah. You'd schedule a hysterectomy before it got that bad. I had a relative who was still going in her 70's. And another who was done at 35. I wish I took after this one, but alas, it seems not. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSmomof2 Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 My mom and grandma were both 62. 😧 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matryoshka Posted October 21, 2015 Author Share Posted October 21, 2015 That's what happened to me! Infertility for years because I didn't ovulate or my periods ranged from 30-300 days apart. But when I was well past taking fertility drugs to have children and fully ready to be done with periods, they became regular. Grr. Wow, we should start a club! :lol: What is up with this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matryoshka Posted October 21, 2015 Author Share Posted October 21, 2015 And I don't think going by my mom will help me much... she's always been way different from me in this department - which I guess is good and bad... she never had my fertility problems, but she did have the nasty hemorrhaging problems some of you are talking about. I think I take more after my dad's side? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasider Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 My mom and grandma were both 62. 😧 I really should stop reading this thread. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serenade Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 I had a relative who was still going in her 70's. Oh my gosh, what a nightmare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matryoshka Posted October 21, 2015 Author Share Posted October 21, 2015 You all are scaring me with this 62 and 70's talk... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamiof5 Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 60s? 70s? No way!!! Mine has made me really sick the past few months. If it's going to behave like that I hope it leaves...very soon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carol in Cal. Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 The only women I have known who got periods in their 60s and 70s are the ones who did HRT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gimbalsoph Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 The average age range really varies a lot from woman to woman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 I have a friend who is about to turn 55 and she's still waiting for it to stop. She's skipped some months but then it came back. I sure hope mine doesn't last that long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pawz4me Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 I've always been happy about the hysterectomy I had years ago. But reading this thread is making me really happy about it. ;) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creekland Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 What a thread to wake up to in the morning. My (1 year older) sister called me last night asking me if the really heavy times she's having right now after having skipped a month or two are normal. I told her I had no idea. Now I know - and I have an idea of what's coming. Thanks Hive. :glare: On a similar note, has anyone had a hot flash only in the calf of one leg? Yesterday and today my left calf has felt like it's next to a heat vent... but it's not hot to the touch or painful. It just feels like it needs some air conditioning! It also makes me feel for those who get that feeling all over their body... another thing to look forward to (sigh). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 My mom had a hysterectomy when she was 53 and still having monthly periods. Great. I also know that her grandmother had a baby when she was rather advanced in age-45 or 46 I think. So I come from women who hold onto their fertility and their menstrual cycles very long. Great. Also, just a PSA: Post-menopausal bleeding (which can be a symptom of cancer or other medical issue) is not the same thing as a regular period. Anyone who is still bleeding regularly (or irregularly for that matter) after their mid-50's should definitely be checked out by a gynecologist. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 I had a uterine ablation several years ago because of very heavy periods, and it was a great solution for me. Not everyone is a candidate, but I was a good one. I have not had a period since, and it has been lovely. I still have cycles, but no bleeding. I am in perimenopause now. I will be 49 in January. You are lucky. Two of my closest friends have had ablations and they still have periods. They didn't have them for a couple of months but then they came back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 My mom and grandma were both 62. 😧 What????? If a hysterectomy is offered to you, take it right then and there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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