To ask about your perimenopause symptoms

I'm 36 and have all of this I kept getting fobbed off as I'm too young, but my my and started the menopause at 40.
I'm going to arm to see the female doctor in our surgery and hopefully get some blood tests. My periods are the worst, currently having a period every 18 days and they're lasting anything from 4 to 8 days. I used to have 33 day cycles.

This thread is comforting. I’m 44 and started to have a lot of similar symptoms to others on here. I’ve been having a lot of meltdowns and anxiety at work and it was my boss who suggested perimenopause as she remembered going through it. Having looked up the symptoms I def think that’s what is going on. Like lots here ovulation gives me more moodiness than PMT!

I have sort of been lucky in that I am a carer for my disabled child and very sleep deprived that the menopause has completely passed me by. I’m 50 and haven’t had a period for 3 years plus. I think it’s karma for starting at the age of 10 and acne for six years that the menopause has been non existent for me.

46. Feel like 146. Body, mood, libido, ability to cope just seems to have vanished. So grim

43 here, such a short fuse. No patience with anyone or anything, haven’t had a good night’s sleep or woken up feeling rested for months. Periods still pretty regular although cycle slightly shorter, but like someone upthread I now get ovulation grumps too. The day my period stops I am horny as hell and then that seems to be it for the rest of the month. Anxious, definitely, although not as bad as I’ve had it in the past.

I have had other issues going on that are causing me stress, not least losing my mum a couple of years ago, but I think a lot of it is due to perimenopause. Last GP offered me an anti depressant but I didn’t bother because it was treating a symptom, not the cause. Need to sign up with a GP in my new location and try to find one that won’t dismiss what I’m telling them.

Very few physical symptoms but emotionally all over the place . Feeling very lonely a lot of the time - ( sometimes tearfully so for no particular reason ) - so some def hormonal and some , I think , because of moving into new chapter . My memory is pretty haphazard - can totally hold it together fine at work but by the time I get home I feel emotionally drained ! BUT HRT is def helping

And often out of breath

I’m 48

I’m exhausted all of the time
Moody
Bloated
Oh and the brain fog
What was I just talking about

Had blood tests waiting results. My periods are still regular 28-30 days and I still feel when I ovulate and get ovulation symptoms. My ovulation symptoms seem to last longer and so does PMT

I only feel good for about one week in the month

I do have a slightly under active thyroid and feel as though that has dipped but the symptoms are often the same

I am 47. Heavy periods and feeling tired and just a bit shit really. Also, feel really anxious and a short fuse - a lot of the time I feel this intense rage.

Oh. Blimey, I think I may have an answer, I thought I was going mad. Terrible anxiety, mostly evenings and night, night sweets, insomnia, itchy at night and moody unexpectedly. Very low generally. I'm 46.

Question though, would I expect peri symptoms whilst on the mini pill?

I’m 42 and for the last 6 months have been getting peri menopause symptoms.

The main one being migraines 3 days before my period. Literally could set my watch by it. Bed ridden vomit inducing migraines that I’ve never had before. Horrible.

Rage with my poor children and husband that was like a red mist descending. I could have done some real damage.

Spoke to the Dr at the beginning of lockdown and have been prescribed the mini pill as the migraines and rage were down to hormone fluctuations.

The pill is amazing in that it has stop the rage and migraines, but it’s made my hair fall out which is not amazing.

Great. Can’t wait!

If you've got a mirena coil in and no symptoms can you assume you're not peri yet?

Once you’re past menopause, do the symptoms stop?

Oh thank you for this thread! The comfort of reading it.

I'm 51 and my cycle is clockwork. I have to wear night-time pads with period knickers because the flow is incredibly heavy for 3 day.

My PMS has always been a problem, but now it's fierce and I have two lots of it, one at ovulation and another crack at it when I'm due on. I have about 8 PMS free days a month, I wish I was exaggerating. I have the internal 'tremor', palpitations, flashes of heat (but no sweats) , an insatiable desire for refined carbs, and ANXIETY. Dizziness. Tinnitus. Weight gain. Body aches. Night terrors. I feel I've aged 10 years overnight. I just don't recognise myself, I've gone from Blahniks to frump, all confidence leached away. I tried HRT last year but the progesterone nearly did for me, it was PMS on steroids. I'm on a waiting list for a swanky menopause specialist now as my GP was useless. I wish you all well!

I don't think when they started has any correlation with when menopause starts. I started at 14, I'm now in full menopause at 44.

Add to my symptoms, short temper, headaches, sweating at night and very hot cheeks. After a week on patches all these stopped.

I'm 49 and confused by the description of peri symptoms because they sound exactly what I've always thought menopause symptoms are so is it not just the menopause? What is the difference between peri menopause and actual menopause?

Is there any correlation between when you start your periods and when you start getting symptoms? I'm 45 and started at 15, so wondering if it will all kick in later than someone who started at, say 10 or 11?

Now I've typed this out I realise it's probably a very stupid question

I'm very short tempered. My ability to be patient with idiots is non existent. I'm hot all the time. I have a fan on me 24/7, sleep without covers and with the window open and I'm STILL hot!
My periods have always been hit and miss cos I've got pcos but they're even worse nowm I've maybe had 2 this year. Lots of false starts but only 2 actual periods. I get regular period pains (got them now) but no period.
I feel full and bloated all the time.
My skin has turned to shit. I have more spots now than I did over my entire adolescence!
When I meet my maker I have a few choice words for him!

Started with swollen feet and ankles but I don't get that anymore . Then heavy periods, ended up buying period pants to use with sanitary towels.
Horrible headaches that won't shift. Found sumatripan helps a lot. Then missing periods and them arriving randomly. Some very light/some heavier.
Really tired and irritable

Oh yes, I forgot about the appetite. I have days when I feel sick and don't want to eat, and then other days when I can't stop eating and feel unfillable.