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.

Oh god, I'm dying laughing at "clots the size of hamsters". I'm nowhere near menopause and I know that feeling exactly. Please don't tell me it gets worse

I agree though MaryZ, I've long thought the whole human reproduction and childbirth malarkey is a bit shit. And the women definitely get the shitty end of the stick

I am only 32 but each month I too am fucking furious when my period starts.

I've had 4 dc and I've been sterilised, doesn't my stupid body REALISE how stupid and pointless it is to be having periods!

God knows what i will be like by the time I'm approaching menopause grrr.

Mine are getting lighter and fading away.

46 yr old veggie here
3 years into meno symptoms
3 weeks into this months period

oh joy

My mum didn't stop until she was 60. Only then did they decide her fibroids were out of control and gave her a hysterectomy.

/runs away very fast/

When I was little, I knew periods happened once a month, but I thought it was all at once. You know, a big gush and then done. And then my mother broke it to me that it went on for five days and I was all as you can imagine.

So imagine my horror when I discovered that the menopause goes on for fucking ever! It's not like you run out of eggs and that's you done, it's months and sodding years of irregularity and hot flushes and wanting to throw your DH through a wall (so I am told).

Totally ridiculous. I suggest we start a petition.

YANBU Every month pray this is my last one forever. Today I turn 51 and the dam things keep coming. No hot flashes yet or anything.
I too have three little dark hairs that have suddenly appeared on my chin, like a bloody goat for gods sake, it's devastating, if they start to sprout out of cleavage too I may have to take up drinking all over again after all these years of being tea total.
You better run willyoulistentome you'll be dogging the empties with all the raging hormones around here!

I wouldn't be worried about the period so much as the mood swings!

As to the former, perhaps an elective hysterectomy?

God, they are awful and so many of us have such a horrible time.

My tale of woe is that I started early meno at 42. My periods went a bit odd i.e. no period for 5 months then a couple of periods which went on for weeks. I was having mad hot flushes, particularly at night, and could not sleep. My GP told me I was too young for the meno until I had a hissy fit one visit and refused to leave until he gave me the blood test. I was in full meno. Which I had TOLD HIM.

Now on HRT and have bleeds every month. I actually thought the GP was joking when he told me I would start bleeding again. He wasn't. . And, I have to stop taking the HRT when I reach 50 so it will all begin again but at least I will have strong bones.

YANBU at all.

Ya of course nbu.

My first answer was, 1) because I got to be the first to reply and 2) as I am totally jealous yours are starting to wind down, however slowly.

55 and counting. Thirteen years since first missed.

29 and absolutely fucking fuming about yesterday's arrival so YADNBU. My clots weren't quite like hamsters, but definitely like, erm, gobstopper size. Hamsters would have probably freaked me out.

My best mate is 50 and a few months ago rang me in a start-of-the-change rant. I answered the phone and the only things said in the entire one-sided conversation were '9 fucking months. Fucking teasting me. What the fucking fuck have I done to fucking deserve this fucking massacre'. She then hung up. And rang me with an horrific hangover the next day as the only thing that helped was a visit from Mr J Daniels.

I'm not looking forward to growing up.

Almost 49 here. One DD of almost 12 who can't wait to start. i have/had PCOS but am currently two or three years since I last saw a period.
I have what seem like constant sweats which obviously isn't helped by living in a hot country.
I asked a GP about HRT, he laughed and said it wasn't compatible with a neuro surgery I had years ago.
OP, YADNBU.

My mum started aged 10 and finally had her last aged 57, I'm 34 and I am hoping the medical research gets us a nice cure in the next few years.

50 here as well and mine have been messing me about for years now.
What's more mine started today and im off to a spa day tomorrow and will be a problem as it ends to be very heavy.

I am just about to have my 51st birthday and I'm still having regular periods. Mind you I had about 5 years off due to pg/bf so now this is pay back time :-(

And I'm not a vegetarian . The only symptoms I have are dry nails and BLOODY MOOD SWINGS. Actually think I've had the latter since the Stopping BF Mood Swings and the Pregnancy Mood Swings.

[arf] at LovesBeingWoken - I knew no-one would actually disagree with me. Because this is obviously the most reasonable aibu that ever was

Isn't it terrible that so many of us are having this. Surely in this day and age there should be some way to just stop it.

Apparently because I have endo, even if I have a hysterectomy I will continue to have problems as there are patches of endometrium in weird places in my body which will continue to go through the monthly cycle (or something, not sure how it works), so for me a hysterectomy would have to be a full one, removing the ovaries as well. Which they don't like doing.

But I'm 50 now (as I keep saying), so surely whipping it all out (with accompanying tummy tuck) would do no harm. And I'm sure I could save the money on not needing SanPro for the next god knows how many years.

I suspect that my mood swings have actually lasted for the same 38 years as my periods

It's so good to have company.YANBU.53 here and delirious with joy that I have gone a whole 64 days without one.
Never been know since I was 14 regular as clockwork and the last few years horrendous.Like a scene from Pscycho when I take a shower, horrendous mood swings and bringing sanitary products into house in a wheelbarrow.Have had 4 females in our house hold in the past!
What I will say for me the last few months I used Tranexamic acid and it did make things much more bearable and stopped the clotting and flooding.
Not deluding myself it's all over though.Got a weekend away and a lovely family thing coming up.Sure to get one then knowing my luck so not convinced it's all over for a long time.

Isn't it amazing how irregular periods always arrive at the worst possible time?

I'm going camping in May, so I suspect I will miss April's period and do the psycho scene when camping. And then have another double one when on holidays in July.

I presumed missing periods meant missing them. I didn't realise it meant "hanging on to all the bleurgh stuff and then producing double the next time".

Crap system, it really is.

I think they used to chop out useless bits back then. A bit like appendixes

I think you are right all my aunties have had them my mum didnt she had 'something else done' but all her sisters had it all whipped out in their 30s Im past my 30s it all needs whipped out

HOLLY ffs! So not only am I destined for clots the size of cream eggs at some point in my future, I'm now going to have that chilling image dancing behind my eyes for the next 20-30 years.

does the menopause coincide when you started having babies I had dd at 21 so maye they are due to stop soon

My mum is just getting from peri menopause to actual menopause at 59