To be absolutely FUCKING FURIOUS that my period has started

[MaryZeZJezuzIzntZombiedYet]

because I'm 50. And I've been having periods since I was 12. Every fucking 28 days like fucking clockwork (apart from the infertility drug years).

And then in November I missed one, and I thought "whoopee, that's it, all over, done with menopause here I come.

I was wrong. Christmas was like a scene from the Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

And then January nothing, nada, zilch (yippee).

And now, here we fucking go again.

Disclaimer: I will not be responsible for my actions if anyone is unwise enough to inform me AIBU.

So you had better all ignore this thread.

I can't remember the last time I had a period.
I was on the depot (sp) injection then on Tamoxifen for five years after breast cancer.
So weirdly, one just seemed to flow into the other.
I'm 56 now and my last one was 2001/2 or thereabouts.
I wouldn't recommend the tamoxifen but can't you try the depot?

Honey, I had no idea this shit was going on, you're always such a lovely happy poster. Thinking of you xx

YABU and so is your horse.

Does anyone else get leg pain during their deluge period. Tis weird and only started about three months ago. Like a dull slow ache down one leg, off and on all day. What's that all about? A sign perhaps?

Well I am 55 and I am still having periods...and don't get me started on VAT on Tampons. I am not grumpy, I have no chocolate or wine... but I do have attitude and age on my side!

I'm right there with you, Maryz.

Just when I think I can go and buy a lemon nylon pointelle sweater and zip-up brown bootee slippers, some fucker tampers with my hormones and I have to go back to wearing the skin-tight white jeans and bloody roller-skating everywhere and tossing my glossy hair about.

Altogether now:

Well I am 55 and I am still having periods.

WHAT REALLY REALLY

Shakey, I get that one-legged pain. I put it down to my endometriosis.

how do you know you have endo what are the symptoms ?

Yes, really really... At this rate I will be the only old biddy factoring tampax into my weekly shop at the old people's home!

. At this rate I will be the only old biddy factoring tampax into my weekly shop at the old people's home!

god sake when do they ever stop ?

Has anyone tried Tranexamic Acid tablets? When I was seriously considering tying teacups round my ankles, I went to the GP and got prescribed them. They are normally to control excessive bleeding, for example, when you've had wisdom teeth out. You start taking them two days before your period starts (you don't have to be regular, just know the signs that you're due on) and take them for four days. They worked for a couple of years, then when they stopped working, I got put on Cerozette (progesterone-only pill) and haven't had a period for five years (I'm 52). It's changed my life.

I shouldnt have read this thread.

I'm 37 and a night pad already only lasts 20mins.

It cannot get worse.

yes I have some of those but my period sort of crept up on me today I wasn't in much pain till I flooded I have taken 1 will take 1 before bed

I only know that I have endo because the surgeon had a look round when he sorted out my ectopic pregnancy (caused by the endo).
Prior to that the GP said my pain was due to having a dodgy hip and proceeded to do an internal exam - with hindsight I have no idea what she thought she would find by shoving her hand up my fanjo - especially as she had just said it was my hip joint .

Ha! I've had fairly irregular periods for most of my life. Sometimes several months would go by without one of the blighters. It's never really been a regular 28 cycle for me. And now! Now I'm well into my 40s and for the last year or two the fuckers have been regular as clockwork, exactly 28 days apart. And sometimes they are really quite heavy. Pah.

MaryZ - stop worrying about everyone else and accept some TLC. You viper.

dh is hiding from me atm.

Your DH is NBU.

I'm almost 52 and I haven't had a period for 6 months now. For a year before then they were erratic and it was more than annoying not knowing when I was going to have one. But apparently I might still have one!!! They don't class you as having gone through the menopause until you have had 12 months with none :(

MaryZ, furious here too.

No period since October, then....whoosh.

I like to plan - I can't be doing with all this coming and going.

And I'm 46. If any more 50-year-olds come on here to say their periods are still going, I shall stick my fingers in my ears and go "la la la". I refuse to believe I have years of this rubbish.

MaryZ Here, have some and enormous bar of chocolate.

This thread has cheered me right up.

You fuckers are all as miserable and furious as I am

We are all in the same boat, floating along on a sea of god-knows-what [bleurgh]

My mum was 58 when hers stopped.... Sorry everyone! She puts it down to being a vegetarian, maybe you could try eating more red meat?!

Oh sod off 58 I don't eat a lot of t red meat >> off to chomp on a cow

sorry but you gals are bloody funny. approaching 50 and it still comes round like bloody clockwork EVERY month. jesus. enough already. i am like a nuclear pasty at night, melting thru the mattress. look like shoite every morning. skin like sandpaper. no matter what skin routine i try to stik to. cba. i will not be wanting any more children. end it now.