Hi Carrie
When this all started for me I went from 11 periods in a year (53,23,60,38,20,21,30,21,26,21 days between each bleed) to 4 periods the next year (84,123,27,26). I didn't experience any very heavy bleeding but sometimes they were very light.
I was having random intermittent symptoms of peri menopause for a couple of years beforehand but GP kept saying I was too young at 45 ish
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One of the best things I did was to start keeping a diary noting the length between cycles, any specific symptoms etc. Life is so busy sometimes we forget what happened last week let alone what happened last month so I found it really useful to document it and it proved invaluable in eventually getting my GP to agree that I was indeed going through menopause.