Periods at nearly 55, am I alone?

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Posting for traffic, aibu to ask if anyone else is still having or had periods at nearly 55? I have the odd gap of a month or two with night sweats and other peri symptoms but they keep returning to the regular 4 week pattern. All my friends were done by 50/51! Is there an age when I should seek a medical opinion

A healthy heart sounds good!

I'm thinking, based on absolutely nothing really, that the later your menopause the fewer symptoms and the quicker it is, in the same way that the later you potty train the fewer accidents there are and the quicker it is! I'm sure I'll be proved wrong.....

I'm 57 now and on HRT but I was still having periods at 55. Bloody ridiculous!! Hang in there - it'll end eventually.

Regular as clockwork until 57. Missed a couple at 58, the gaps became longer and then they just stopped altogether. Very little fuss or bother but I know I was lucky.

Sorry, that is a pain...women in my family breeze through menopause all done and dusted by 48

I'm 52 and every month I think 'Please Jesus let that be the last one.' But no such luck, still going strong and painful every month!

Me at 54. And please no pity! My periods are no trouble at all. I don't even have the dreaded Peri.

50 and I'm not sure when they will end. They're a lot less heavy than they used to be - on average 3 days, which is a blessing - but they're still hanging in there. They're a lot less predictable these days, you could set the clock by mine before. I don't know when they will end, but I bloody can't wait.

I had a Mirena coil removed in September 2019 when I was 56, thinking I'd have gone through the menopause by then. Since then, I've been having (very heavy) periods every 27/28 days - much more regularly than when I was younger - and have only missed two separate, random months in the last two and a half years. I've had an ultrasound and know I've got several medium sized fibroids, which might account for the ridiculously heavy periods. In 2020 I asked my GP for a referral to a gynaecologist but she said there'd be a long wait. Yep, still waiting... I've just turned 59!

Am 57
Had regular periods up to 6 months ago
They got steadily lighter and then stopped
No menopause symptoms
My friends all hate me

I turned 55 last August. Until nearly then I was still going strong with very heavy flooding periods (caused by fibroids). Like you, I wished fervently every month for that one to be the last, but they were getting heavier and closer together.

Various things had been tried to control the bleeding including Tranexamic Acid and the Mirena coil. Neither worked and the Mirena coil was an utter disaster, making the bleeding much worse.

Eventually, last year, a different gynaecologist prescribed me a six month course of Zoladex injections (one per month) to shut down my rather stubborn ovaries and hope that this would trigger the menopause to finally intervene.

My last dose was last October if I remember correctly, and so far so good. I haven't had a period since (I think) last August.

I currently have fingers, toes and everything I have more than one of crossed that this is finally it and they won't return.

I'm 45 and 2 years post-menopause. None of my friends who are my age are even perimenopausal yet, ditto my older sister who is 50 this year.

Everyone is different.

On HRT and still having periods at 56yrs old. I will be speaking to my gp very soon 😬

I was very regular until 55, then nothing for a year, then a normal period then nothing for another year. I too envied women who had meno by fifty.

I had an endometrial ablation when I was 49 because my periods suddenly became continuous and heavy that year. I have not had a period since and I am now 57. I have hardly ever had a hot flush either, thankfully. My sympathies are with you.

Periods at 55. Also, dreadful brain fog so, at 55, started hrt.
Should have done earlier....

I never had a period after 34 (Mirena)

My periods finally stopped when I was 59 1/2! I'm 62 now. At the age of about 52, my periods became terrible heavy (I used to have to wear 5 pads at once) and lasted 2 or 3 weeks at a time. I was backwards and forwards to the hospital (GP referred me), had endless blood tests, ultrasounds, biopsies of my uterus (incredibly painful), and courses of hormone tablets. You've got my sympathy . Ask your GP to refer you to a gynecologist

I'll be 51 soon and still have mine regular like clockwork. But I still have perimenopause symptoms. My DM had hers until she was late 50s so I may following her footsteps at this rate.

My good friend is 55 and still has regular periods. She does have 5DC so that could be the reason. I am definitely hoping to be through with periods by then. Hang in there OP.

My periods finally stopped when I was 59 1/2!

Had no idea they could go on this long. Sympathy to those still having them in your mid fifties and beyond.

Poor you. I'm 55 l haven't had a period for about 2 years. Had a year of very erratic and long long periods then it all stopped thank god.

Got a mirena so they are super light, I skip some completely, I'm not quite 50