Hi.
I came across this site and thought I'd ask for some advice. I'll try to keep the information as brief as possible but I apologise if I waffle. I am 48 years old and was told I was perimenopausal over three years ago and the GP said I had probably been going through it for years and not really attributed my symptoms to that because I also suffer from depression. She said something about my ovaries barely functioning and offered me progesterone tablets to take when the heavy bleeding was too much for me. I'd been having irregular periods for many years and at that point they were skipping a month and then I'd have flooding and lengthy periods (sometimes six weeks long). Skip forward to now and I'm now into week six of another stint of bleeding. I had gone ten months without anything and thought I was almost done ,then suddenly started with the breast tenderness,low mood and stomach pains,which then ended up in four weeks of on and off bleeding lightly,followed by a week of what can only be described as hell. Bluntly put I was using a super plus tampon and the biggest thickest towel every 20 minutes and still being in a mess. I could feel it flooding out of me. I also had clots; small ones but it was quite horrible. This was day and night for a week and though I know it's part of the menopause I'm so exhausted and so fed up. What makes it worse is the tablets I was given to help stop the bleeding make me evil. Seriously,I've never been able to take anything hormonal (I had the old coil fitted because of this) and I hate myself on them. I can almost feel my teeth baring and grinding and my husband says he has never seen me so mean looking. He has coped with years of my mood swings and says that me being perimenopausal is a breeze but being on those tablets is awful. I totally understand as frankly I feel like I have been possessed by a demon. Anyway,because of this I cannot take them. My mother in law said I should ask about a hysterectomy as I'm now into the sixth week of on off bleeding and it's costing me a fortune in sanitary products, I have no sex life and I never know when I'm going to be inconvenienced by it. I feel constantly tired,constantly emotional and I know menopause isn't easy but is this normal? I honestly thought I'd almost done at ten months and was so relieved. Now I'm back into wearing pads every day because there's always a feeling of being constantly premenstrual.
I'm seeing a Gynaecologist next month and I will discuss all this but I wondered what your views were really.
