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[Dorothy]

Ok, so this is probably a weird one to be worrying about, but has anyone else experienced this?

All my life I have suffered from incredibly painful period pains (the bent double, being sick, blacking out kind)  Even on the pill, I still had cramps although they were not as bad and I could continue a normal life.  And while timing and heaviness has fluctuated during peri, I always get the pain.

Last week, I had the shaky feeling that I get when I'm about to start bleeding, but no pain but when I went to the loo I realised I'd started bleeding and quite heavily.  Is it normal for periods to suddenly go pain-free when you are going through peri?  In one way it's great, in another it's really, really weird and since I don't have a recognizable pattern to my bleeds now, I'm getting a bit twitchy that the next one will catch me out! 

[CLKD]

Like you I suffered and I don't use that word lightly.  I dreaded the next period  .  I went on the Pill which helped enormously.  Last period was in 2002 but occasionally I get those feelings of 'cramp' and think "Not after all these years!" fortunately, no bleed.

You'll need to keep a note of each period again probably ......... and carry protection ;-)

[Dorothy]

I keep a note anyway because the GP always asks how many periods I've 'missed' although it's been so jolly erratic I'm not sure - sometimes I've barely finished one before another starts and another time there's a loooooong gap, so does that count as missing or was the middle one just very very early?!  I'm not complaining about the lack of pain - it's very nice! -  it's just very unnerving to suddenly produce so much blood with no warning it's about to happen!