Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[C.C.]

 So last week I posted I had been feeling PMS symtoms- grumpy, sore boobs, really tired, a bit crampy etc. This morning I discovered to my complete dismay the spotting has returned, exactly 21 days after the last time. What is going on?? I'm so confused!   Is there such a thing as false menopause? Was I never really post meno?
I did read somewhere that if you lose a good amount of weight (lost 24lbs so far), that the estrogen stored in the belly fat is released and it can increase the estrogen level and periods could return. I asked my GP about it and he kind of scoffed at the idea. 
I go for my scan on Wednesday, hopefully that will shed some light, but I feel some bloodwork would be another option, just to check my FSH.

... So frustrated right now

[CLKD]

Hormones.  The ovaries keep on giving - mine periods waxed and waned, sometimes proper bleeding, others a light flow for a couple of days.  I knew it was The Change so it didn't bother me.  Occasionally there would be brown blood for 1 day.

I don't understand how fats and oestrogen relate 

This too will pass. ;-)

[C.C.]

Thank you for the reassurance CLKD . I know it will pass. I think the Menopause Fairies have it in for me. Two years of almost nothing...and then this!
As for the fat and estrogen, I could only find one article online that mentioned it as a possible reason for abnormal bleeding postmeno. It doesn't seem to be a popular theory.

[CLKD]

U get a scan this week ?

[C.C.]

Yep, on Wednesday.   No spotting since this morning though.

[CLKD]

Great. 

Morning by the way.  8.45 a.m.

[C.C.]

Happy Monday  on a sunny morning at 8:00 am 

[CLKD]

I can't work out the time difference 

[C.C.]

 I am 5 hours behind London time.     Come October, it will be 6 hours when Daylight Savings Time ends.

[CLKD]

 

That's sums and I don't do adding up or taking away