Newbie here!
Glad to find you all and hope I'll learn lots of coping skills from you all.
I'm 50 and have been peri-menopausal for a couple of years with the main problems being erratic and very heavy periods and frequent flooding (although they have always been heavy, even when on the pill). After a couple of years trying tranexamic acid, alone and then with ponstan, folowed by a seven month trial of Qlaira, to manage my heavy bleeding I finally took the plunge and had a mirena iud fitted almost three months ago. So far it hasn't completely stopped my periods but it has made a massive change to my quality of life - I can now go out for the day without a backpack full of tampons and sanitary towels!
I'm just starting to get more generalised symptoms such as night sweats and irritability etc and wonder if it's time for me to consider aome oestrogen replacement therapy too.