I was low on iron a while ago and I took iron for about a year with no problems, since stopping I've had a lot of constipation and bloating.
In the last few months I've started to feel run down and exhausted again like my iron is low- hair is starting to fall out and I have terrible brain fog. My calves ache terribly when I go to bed at night and my forearms are starting to ache a bit as well. Im also boiling hot at bedtime every night but cold most of the day.
My periods have been between 35- 40 days since my baby turned one. They always start with aches before then feeling really depressed during but no major pain or cramps and last around 4 days.
This month though I've taken my period at 22 days- so 2 weeks early and it was a really weird period- it started unexpected with no pain I just woke up to a flood- and it was then a lot more painful than usual with a really tender spot at the front of my stomach (womb/bladder area?). It only lasted two days with none of the emotional symptoms.
I'm starting to feel like something is really wrong- my weight is going up so much, I'm so bloated and look pregnant but not sure how much is bloating and how much is weight gain, and when I bend over it feels like something is in the way. I can tend to be a bit health anxious so I don't know how much I'm overthinking it.
I'm only early 30's so doubt it's perimenopause, I have suspected a cyst as I've had a few large ones in pregnancy.