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nathansmommy
AncestralPea
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OK, I'm 44 and have been having hot flashes, night sweats for about 2 years. My periods have got closer together (not much but about 26 days), heavier but shorter (only 3 days). I was getting really sore breasts for the week before each period, a sure indication it was coming, same amount of soreness as each time I was pregnant if that gives you an idea.
I'm been hoping that it will all stop soon but as my Mum was 50 when hers finished I had resigned myself to a few more years of torment.
Now comes this month, period is 3 - 4 days late, no breast pain, not pregnant, in fact I feel great. I have read that in perimenopause periods can get closer and then further apart and I am wondering what your experience was? I am hoping aft two years of getting closer that maybe they are now on the other swing?
Any advise from my fellow older peas? 
Thanks so much for any knowledge you care to aprt.
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Pea-T-A-Mom
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That's been my experience. Closer together (although mine were still just as long), and now they are currently about 3 months apart. And getting much lighter. The hot flashes are less frequent too, but I don't know if that's just because it's winter.
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Mine did exactly that. I had all the same issues you described. They gradually started getting further apart (up to 35 days) and then finally I went 2 months with no period and major hot flashes and foggy thinking. That's when I saw my DR about something to help me through it.
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OklaPhoma
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July 2001
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Mine kept getting closet together until I was have a cycle about every 10-15 days. That went on for about six months and then they started spreading out and skippin months.
Then I went through a year of two close together, skip two months, two close together. I'm now on a schedule of having one about every six months. So I keep hoping the last one really was *The* last one. |
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I haven't had a period in 10 years. I haven't had a hot flash in 10 minutes...I know, I'm a little ray of sunshine aren't I? I didn't choose the siggy I did because I'm pleasant  |
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Burning Feather
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callypea
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You describe me exactly except my cycles are still getting closer together. They are lighter and last a day and a half but the night sweats are ridiculous! My doctor says I still have years ahead of me (I'm 45) which isn't so encouraging. 
Actually I am glad to hear this is common before menopause finally takes over! |
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Burning Feather
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bobbie01
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Mine just stopped abruptly. I never had any hot flashes either. I don't know what I did to deserve such a great menopause but I wasn't complaining  |
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nathansmommy
AncestralPea
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December 2002
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| Posted: 1/10/2013 10:19:23 PM
Oh the fuzzy/idiot brain stuff is a pretty common occurrence with me too.
I'll walk into a room and completely forget why I wanted to be there. Also things will happen and the following day I'll ask something relating to it because I can't remember any of the facts, it's being in a constant drunk brain state!
I'm hoping things will start to show they are on their way to ending, I've been "cursed" to too many years (31 and counting).
Thanks for all your help, it's nice to know we are all in the same rocky boat
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Chihuahuax3
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I'm in my early 50's with no hot flashes. I just became really irregular. First very close together then I could go a couple months...6 months, now over a year. Some heavy, some light...some periods seemed to last for over a week. I think I'm done. It wasn't horrible but then it wasn't awful for my Mother either. | |
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BergdorfBlonde
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| Posted: 1/10/2013 11:04:12 PM
I went thru some hot flashes (especially during sleep), sleeplessness and horrible periods, for about 6 years. Last year, at age 51 (almost 52), I had to have a hysterectomy (kept my ovaries), but, damn-----I'm STILL ovulating!!!!!!
Good luck to you. Consult with your ob/gyn if your periods become a bother. |
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I'm 44 and have been two weeks on two weeks off for about 12 months. At the end of two weeks of constant medium to heavy loss, I'm so tired that lifting my arms to brush my hair is hard work,lol. Then I get a break, but as soon as I recover enough to feel almost human, the whole deal starts again. Not pleasant. I've been told I could have another 5-8 years ahead of me. I still look mostly human, but I feel like one of those dried out leather mummies they dig up in the bogs of Outer Mongolia. |
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I was in Paris in August, 2008 (25th wedding anniversary) and I just had such heavy flow it was really hard to contain! Nothing again until Christmas day 2008 and again the floodgates opened. I think I was a little warmer but nothing like the hot flushes my mum had. Then in August 2009, around my birthday I had my last one, I dont remember it being anything special
I am 51 and seem to have gone and done the whole menopause without much trouble, I was with a group of friends today and some had or are having really hard times with it. My heart goes out to everyone in this situation. | |
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| Posted: 1/11/2013 6:43:41 AM
My experience was that my periods got closer together and just about at the same time that you think you ate going to lose your mind they get farther apart. I would say perimenopause was at least a five year process preceding the year of menopause.
I experienced night sweats, fuzzy brain and sleep loss. Of all of it, the sleep loss was the worst.
I am almost five years post meno and feel great! There is light at the end of the tunnel! | |
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