Hi chloe.
Your periods may or may not have just stopped. It's only been since October so it's too early to say. You need to go for at least 12 months without one to know. Periods can do all sorts of weird things before stopping. For a number of years mine got closer together and would come every 3 weeks when I had always been a regular 28 day girl.
Re knowing or not knowing what was in store for us, I think it would be good if everyone had a bit more education about what possible meno symptoms there are. I was completely clueless and probably like most women thought you got some hot flushes, your periods stopped and that was it. I was not expecting the severe insomnia I got so for months I was completely thrown not knowing what on earth was wrong with me. It was only after going 3 full nights with absolutely no sleep whatsoever that I took myself, crying and with a completely fried brain, to the doctor.
So often society itself totally dismisses meno symptoms and, what's worse, pokes fun and belittles women when they have hot flushes. Everyone needs more education.