How old were you when your periods stopped

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Just curious as I'm 51 and they're still regular.

I was 54 when I had my last one. I'd been on the pill due to PCOS and periods had pretty much disappeared. I stopped taking it during lockdown at 51 and periods came back but were erratic. I went six months without one but then had a few but they just stopped and am nearly 18 months free of them. It's a joy as I started at 12.

I was about 43 or so when I started hrt and didn't have periods for a few years then they came back sporadically. Last April like a few pp have said I had the most horrendous flooding periods that lasted weeks and and had a week or two free then flooding again with pain, I had previously never had this. After that I have not had anymore so I hope
thats it! I am 51. I also changed my hrt from utrogestan to provera and I feel that suits me better as well

Also if you stop before 50 it's 2 years without a period before you are considered menopausal, over 50 it's 1 year

well that's my understanding anyway

Thank you for this thread.
I am 56.
I have no idea where I am on the menopause trail becuase I have been on the mirena coil for years and years. My mum stopped in her early 50s.

I have actually just started a thread asking - how do I know if I am post menopausal or not?

How do I know if I can still get pregnant.
I am not encouraged by those saying that they were still having periods aged 58!

I'll not sure that I'm glad I asked ! 51 isn't that old then and I really hoped the end was in sight

Periods stopped at 50. I suppose I had a menopause. Too busy with a special needs 7 year old son to notice!

I have never come across the 1 or 2 year distinction. Where did you hear this?

Hopefully 54! That's how old I am now. Last period was in June so still some months till I'm "official" although they had slowed down for a year or two before that, so every 2-3 months instead of every month.

I really, really hope this it! During peri they have been awful. So so heavy and painful. I will be ecstatic if I never have another one.

They were 7 months apart for 2 yrs

A few months before my 44th birthday. Haven't had one since - am 49 in a few months time.

My older sister is 52 and is still menstruating regularly.

I know a few people that had that mega period and that was the last one . For me it was the penultimate one 🤞

Absolutely this, hence the many surprise babies in women's 40s. I believe that contraception is advised even in one's 50s if still menstruating.

I had no problems with my periods until I was in my late thirties. I had started my periods when I was 9 a couple of months before I was 10.

When I was 39/40 my period were regular but became very heavy. So heavy that on the first day of each one I would soak through a pad in seconds. I never used tampons.

I would have to book the day off work for the first day of my period each month if it fell on a week day. It didn't work out too badly as I would start on a Saturday or Sunday. The first day was just constant flooding.

This went on for a few years with the NHS being absolutely useless and I paid for a private consultation and he wanted to push a Mirena coil on me and I said no way. I had an hysteroscopy but nothing untoward was found.

Then I got an Ovarian cyst which got to a certain size and was rapidly growing and they decided to take it out and at the same time give me an ablation.

The cyst had shrunk when they operated and that's a different story but the ablation was truly one of the best things to happen in my life. No more periods. I got my freedom back and no more sitting in the loo for ages just bleeding out once a month.

So yes some of us are pleased our wish came true.

Never too late for Vagifem if you're suffering with vaginal atrophy. Absolutely brilliant stuff. My oncologist practically mentioned it in his first breath during our first appointment. (Was actually already using it anyway, so know how restorative it is).

Mine started spacing out (only 4 a year) at 36 and then stopped at 40.

Turns out I had a pituitary tumour, and now I'm back to having periods - horrible, heavy, with much shorter cycles meaning I'm on my 14th period this year.

Wish I could stop for good.

I’m 56 and they are irregular but I know I’m about to have another. Apart from anything else, the night sweats have stopped for the moment and I’m sleeping through the night.

I'm 52 and had my last one in June, I'm hoping that's it.

I was 58. 44 years of it was enough.

Because eventually your periods will stop for good. This is menopause. You're still in perimenopause, a transition phase that can last anywhere from a few months to a decade.

HRT isn't responsible for the continuation of your periods, and if you stopped, they would still continue until whatever time your body is ready to stop. This will be when your ovaries are no longer releasing eggs (your FSH levels will be sky high at this point). As no eggs are released, then progesterone won't be produced either. Your oestrogen levels would have declined too, although interestingly, this could be the last part of the equation to go haywire. But ultimately, it's a combination of all these hormones.

50. After several years of horrendous, erratic, heavy periods that went on forever. Wish I'd been smart enough to demand a hysterectomy!!

I was 50. They just stopped. No erratic patterns; just stopped. I was very fortunate and haven't suffered from any menopause symptoms apart from a 6 month period of time leading up to my periods stopping when I felt complete and utter exhaustion. Now 56 and very happy to be done with all that.

Mine stopped at 54 and I was delighted as I'd had 10 years of torrential bleeding, flooding and severe anaemia in the run-up. I'm 62 now and although I still get hot flushes and have to get up in the night for the loo, I never felt as well as I do now when I was having periods. Good luck to all those still in the throes of periods, in my experience they are literally a bloody nuisance.

If you are on sequential you keep having "periods".
They are withdrawal bleeds like the pill.

Not real periods.

I am 53, 10 years post menopause and still have these types of"periods" as also on sequential.

I do not like continuous. It is not as safe or as body identical.

Are you on any HRT?

I'm 53 with no signs of menopause yet (ie still regular cycle and no hot flushes or anything) and my mum didn't have her's til age 56.

I'm having major surgery and hysterectomy next week. So I'll go straight into surgical menopause. I know menstrual cycle affects my hunger as I get ravenously hungry / binge eating in the week before bleeding starts. I'd be glad to get rid of that but if HRT helps then I'll be asking for it.

I took the same HRT patches as you until I went to see an actual specialist - I actually know a fuck of a lot about HRT, patches, menopause, perimenopause etc. etc. etc, far more so than any GP I have seen.

It's your FHS levels which will be most indicative of whether you've reached menopause or not. And once your periods stop, they move you over to Everol Conti...