What age did your periods stop and what happened to your periods before they stopped ?

[BlueBirdOnAWire]

Mine have always been irregular
anywhwre from 28 days to 42 days
so they’ve always been a pain in my arse as I can’t plan certain things
and I can’t take the pill

now I’m late 40s and my cycles are sometimes 21 days
this cycle been 25 days

it’s super annoying as I’m anemic too

can you tell me what your experience of this was

Mine stopped at 54, they stayed the same as they always had been, I was extremely lucky that they didn't become super heavy or unpredictable.
Menopause was easy for me, a few hot flushes and nothing more.

My cycles started getting shorter mid 40s, got irregular when I hit 50. Last period was just after I turned 53, I am now 57.

I was lucky in that all I had by way of other symptoms were a few hot flushes.

30, already long cycle started to become irregular/shorten in the months before

Mine when I was 51. Prior to that they became very heavy for about a year and became regular for the first time in my life

Mine were always as regular as clockwork. After my youngest son was born (I was 35), they started to become less predicable. The gradually they just went nuts. No pattern to them at all and sometimes so much flooding that I was wearing 4 night time pads during the day.

Saw 3 different GP's who sent me for scans or did nothing. I knew nothing about the symptoms of peri-menopause and thought something was really wrong. Eventually saw one that said this was textbook peri-menopause and she couldn't understand why the others hadn't come to the same conclusion! She suggested trying the progesterone only pill for a start and if that didn't work, to try some trans-something acid.

Anyway, a decade on and I am now 53 and the pill has basically help me glide through the menopause with no symptoms bar the very occasional, brief hot flush. I have just stopped taking it no period has appeared so I think I am out the other side. No idea when they stopped as the pill stopped them after a while.

My mum died in her early 60's but told me before she did that she had periods into her 50's. Oddly, I have 2 cousins on my fathers side who have had the same menopause experience as me. Not sure if that it just coincidence as I always assumed it went down the maternal side.

My last period was when I was 42. For about a year or so before that, they just got lighter and lighter before stopping altogether. They stayed as regular as they always were, right down to the hour!

Perimenopause was WAY worse for me than actual menopause in terms of symptoms

My last was at 56, just became irregular. I had the mirena coil, so hadn’t been heavy for a few years anyway.

My sister is 63, regular period every single month. Very strange, lol

45, my periods were usually short cycles, so I had 14 a year, but in my last year, I had 5normal ones a 7 months break, and one final massive one.nNothing since.