Sudden change to periods?

[SinkGirl]

I have endometriosis and adenomyosis and have had very long, very painful periods for over 20 years, except when on medication to prevent them. I’m currently on nothing, just turned 37. Haven’t been on anything for over a year, then it was just a few months on the pill. I had twins 3 years ago.

Last month it was like I had two periods - started heavy and painful as usual, stopped on about day 3, then started up again.

This month it stopped on day 3 (yesterday) and hasn’t started again. I still have the pain, just no bleeding.

Is this just something that happens as you get older or should I be concerned? I’m not complaining about the shorter bleeding, obviously, it’s just weird.

I had my hormone levels tested about 8 months ago and everything was normal, except my oestrogen was just below normal range. When repeated at a different point in my cycle it was just in normal range.

You're a bit young for ageing to be a factor.

Sure you're not pregnant?

My mum was almost 5 months gone with me before she knew because she was still bleeding monthly and had no symptoms before that point. Then she "took a funny turn" while shopping. Went to dr thinking it was a bug of some kind (there was a flu going about) and was shocked to find not only that she was pregnant but that she was as far along as she was!

Unless it’s an immaculate conception / alien abduction then definitely not recently pregnant :)

I would have to be five months pregnant or more and I have had insanely heavy, massive clot type periods each month plus no pregnancy symptoms (last time I was a zombie and really unwell for the first trimester). My abdomen is soft, I think it’s massively unlikely. Should probably do a test to be safe but I’d say anything else is more likely!

Probably worth a trip to dr then