For about the last year or so, I've been having various minor symptoms that I have mostly put down to my age and approaching menopause. I'm 44.
In no particular order, I now have:
- random periods. Usually on time, but I never know if it's going to be a flood or a 12 day long dribble. They were previously pretty consistent from teens.
- bleeding between periods, just when wiping, not enough to need sanpro
-bleeding after sex, just sometimes. This has never happened before.
- discomfort in the side of my breast and in my armpit. On and off, seemingly random. Dismissed as trauma from new bra, but stopped wearing bra and discomfort continued. Can't feel any lumps or anything.
- a dull pain in my pelvis beside my left hip. Probably only 1/10 on pain, but still pain that was never there before.
- pain in the same part of my pelvis during sex (this is new)
- when i poke the area in my pelvis, I can feel something a bit harder than the rest of the squidgy stuff in there
I went to the doc today and she said she couldn't deal with all that in 10 mins, so I am to go back tomorrow for a double appointment.
I know it could be a hundred different things from a cyst/fibroids/twisted tube/adhesions/STI (extremely unlikely!)/tumour/menopause etc etc etc. I dismissed it all as menopausal until I started getting pain. It's the pain that's prompted me to go to the doc. I've also done a pg test and it was negative and had a normal smear test earlier in the year. The nurse said it all looked healthy at that time.
I know that nobody on here can tell me what's wrong and I am seeing the doc tomorrow, but I am starting to feel a little bit stressed about it.
Tell me it will be fine!
