Hello, my name is Deb. My menopause journey so far is as follows. I starting getting perimenopausal symptoms around five years ago, and then my periods stopped last May. Apart from some pretty awful hot flushes (I'm on clonidine for those which seem to be working - I can't have hrt as I have rheumatoid arthritis and also I don't do well with synthetic hormones) so all was going well until February this yearvwhen I had some spotting for a few days. Didn't think that much to it, but roughly two weeks later I had something that resembled a period which lasted for three days, then spotting on and off until 3rd April, since when I have been bleeding non-stop. I have seen my gp who, despite me not having gone a full 12 months without a period, has classed this as abnormal bleeding, so I am off to the hospital on May 24th to have a transvaginal uktrasound and hysteroscopy. Now, I know that one of the things they look for is a thickening of the endometrium, anything over 4mm being suspect. I had endometrial ablation 10/11 years ago so theoretically it should be 4mm or less anyway. I wonder if any of you have had a similar experience, and if so what the outcome was. Thanking you all in advance xx