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FFS I'm 53 and my period has started!

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venusandmars · 03/03/2014 16:09

I'm 53, 53 do you hear me? And I'm still having fucking periods.

Please, please will some part of the universe tell my ovaries and my uterus that my dc are in their 20s, and that I do NOT intend to have any more children, and that I really, really do NOT need to have any more periods ever

FFS will it ever stop? [pathetic face}

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canuck43 · 03/03/2014 17:39

61 yrs 7months was my age at last period and I think they only stopped then because I had had some weird and wonderful treatment for fibroids, up until that time they were very regular. Thank goodness for my coil.

Goblinchild · 03/03/2014 17:44

Well, I will join you in your grumbling OP, but I doubt there's anything we can do about it but feel irritated. Regular as clockwork and in my mid fifties.

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venusandmars · 03/03/2014 17:47

canuck Shock Oh no! I'd go for any weird and wonderful treatment NOW if I thought it would help [looks around for a hidden fibroid]. What was it?

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mummymeister · 03/03/2014 17:48

venusandmars I am waving my hand, pick me, pick me. I will have your periods. you in turn can have all my crappy menopausal symptoms that I have had since mine stopped at 48. aching joints, headaches, dry eyes, dry skin, thinning hair. IME no contest - I would welcome back my periods like a shot.

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venusandmars · 03/03/2014 17:54

mummymeister we could swap for a month and report back. But I fear that I will experience your symptoms too - just not yet.

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greenfolder · 03/03/2014 17:54

i had a hysterectomy recently at the age of 45.

i still wake up every day thanking god that i will never have another period

yanbu

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venusandmars · 03/03/2014 17:55

Gah! all this period stuff - my Godmother said that it was one of the things she was going to take up with the Almighty when she got to heaven Grin

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NobodyLivesHere · 03/03/2014 17:56

I simultaneously feel bad for you all (I had a hysterectomy aged 28 and now at 33 periods are a dim, distant memory to me) and bad for myself (if periods keep you young, by age 40 I will look like a 75 year old meth addict).

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venusandmars · 03/03/2014 17:56

greenfolder so glad it went well for you.

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venusandmars · 03/03/2014 18:02

I do know that I'm being unreasonable. My dd had cancer and her choices about hysterectomy and fertility and child bearing are very limited. I guess that's why it feels OK to vent on here, because doing it in real life feels very unfair.

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venusandmars · 03/03/2014 18:04

nobody sorry to heat that. My dd will be in a similar situation. Maybe one day people WILL confuse us for sisters [black humour emoticon]

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LadyPenny · 03/03/2014 18:15

I'm 52, mine went from regular as clockwork to stopping overnight two years ago. I've had no menopause symptoms at all and am told I look at least 10 years younger than I am.

Grin yes I am smug.

MrsDavidBowie · 03/03/2014 18:19

I'm nearly 54, on hrt and still bleed every month.
42 years of it.

12 x 42 weeks of pmt. That's nearly 10 years of bloating, swollen boobs and vileness.

HadABadDay2014 · 03/03/2014 18:23

I wonder if there is a link between starting periods later than norm mean later menopause.

I hope I follow my mum 51 and no periods since 47

LineRunner · 03/03/2014 18:24

52 now and still having spectacular periods.

Hard to believe that I could get pregnant. Ffs. Last hormone test indicated I'm still properly ovulating.

3littlefrogs · 03/03/2014 18:26

Mirena coil. Brilliant for perimenopausal irregular and too frequent periods.

MooseBeTimeForSnow · 03/03/2014 18:27

To be honest, I wouldn't mind a period. DS is 2.2 and the feckers still haven't come back. Mind you, we are still bf but only twice a day and he sleeps through the night.

sarine1 · 03/03/2014 18:27

Sorry OP - I had regular periods until I was 59! (am even older than that now). They seem to have stopped now but it went on and on. My GP told me that one of her patients who is 62 was still having them.

NobodyLivesHere · 03/03/2014 18:27

Ah Venus I jest! It wasn't an especially pleasant time in my life, but I'm happy to be free of the wretched things! I genuinely feel for you. I think if god had been a woman they'd stop as soon as you were done having babies. and the men should have them instead

digerd · 03/03/2014 18:32

52 is the average age for being through the menopause, but periods can persist for longer with some women. From the mid 40s, ovulation can stop despite still having periods.

I had breakthrough periods on HRT in my late 50s and early 60s but there was no ovulation involved.

MadBusLady · 03/03/2014 18:40

Am I the only one who quite likes periods? I find they ground me as a woman, if that doesn't sound too woo, and reassure me my body is working. Think I'd be quite chuffed to still be having them in my 50s.

MadBusLady · 03/03/2014 18:40

That really was a bit woo.

NobodyLivesHere · 03/03/2014 18:42

Yes, MadBusLady, you are the only one lol

Soditall · 03/03/2014 18:43

Please tell me how young you look has nothing to do with how late your periods will stop?I'm nearly 40 and most people still put me at about 19 years old.

I don't want to still be having periods when I'm in my 60's!

crazynanna · 03/03/2014 18:45

51 this year and have 1 every 10 months roughly and a hasty one at that
Started my periods aged 10 so am really sick of them now

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