I've read loads online but there's lots of conflicting advice out there and I seem to be working myself up into a Google Panic Apologies in advance for mammoth thread.
I've always had a regular 28 day cycle. And PMT which got worse over the last few years - from the age of about 39/40 it got so bad that it was lasting two weeks + and I was getting panic attacks and feeling terrible. I eventually saw my GP who diagnosed Generalised Anxiety Disorder (I did fit the symptoms) and put me on ADs, which helped a lot and completely cured my PMT. The downside was that they killed my libido and made it impossible for me to 'get there'. Also what I couldn't understand was that there was no cause whatsoever for me to feel anxious - everything in my life was/is good and it was so out of character for me.
Anyway, I recently turned 45. Over the last year I've had a couple of periods heavier than usual, and a couple of times I've been a few days early. But now I'm ten days late and I'm freaking out slightly. I've never, never been late before other than when I've been PG. I'm 45 and more importantly, DH had a vasectomy 12 years ago, so I'm thinking it's hugely unlikely - but still worrying about the minute possibility. I just can't face doing a test - if I was PG it would be an awful shock for various health, work, lifestyle, and a million other reasons. But I don't think I could go through with a termination . Basically my life would be screwed.
I also realise it could be the perimenopause. But that possibility has shocked me, because my DM had cancer in her early 50's, leading to her having her ovaries removed, and up until then she'd not had any menopause symptoms - so I have always assumed that I won't either at least until I'm in my 50's.
So could my period being this late mean I'm having an early menopause? Or do people sometimes just miss a period for no reason, even if they never have before? I'm having no other symptoms, ie no hot flushes, etc, but is a missed period and anxiety (which is probably still there underneath the mask of the ADs) enough to diagnose it?
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Really worried - is this perimenopause or could I be PG at 45?
piefacerecords · 19/01/2017 10:22
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