Could this be a bladder infection or something else?

[christywhisty]

For about the last week as my bladder empties when i wee it becomes painful. It doesn't hurt at all when I start to urinate, just as my bladder starts to deflate (that's what it feels like)the last bit if very painful.
Just above my groin feels slightly tender. I don't have a temperature and don't feel ill really. Urine isn't cloudy or smelly.
I am 46 and been perimenopausal for about 2 years.

Sounds like you might have a mild UTI.
Go see your GP and get it checked out

I'm 46 too, christywhisty & am at this moment stuck on the loo with a bout of cystitis. Agony! Thank God for laptops.

How do you know when you're perimenopausal? My stepmother (nurse) told me I probably was last summer - I was horrified & ignored her because I thought mid-forties too young for menopause. Tell me the symptoms, please, although the idea of having to deal with menopause NOW is just too much for me. (lots of stress at home)

Sympathy - I had similar symptoms last year and worked myself into a terrible state over the possibilities.

I cut out all the known bladder iritants for a while - caffeine and alcohol mainly. Drank plenty of fluids but did not go mad - and it went away!

Obviously see your GP if pain is severe, but it could just be an irritation of your bladder lining.

Hope you feel better soon.

Thanks for the replies

Cariboo, I started getting very painful and heavy periods including temperature, saw gp and was sent for a scan and found some small endometrial cysts. Gp put me on duphaston which didn't help and just made me feel awful for 10 days.

I was referred to a gynacologyst ( I think she was but it was not a hospital appointment, but at another gp practise).She wanted me to have a mirena coil. I didn't because the progesterone made me feel so bad before, I didn't like the thought of the progesterone being there permantly even if it was only a tiny dose.
Thankfully I haven't had any more really painful periods since then, although they are heavy. Also they are not as regular as they used to be. From what I have read this stage can last up to 10 years

I am not having to go to the loo anymore than normal and it doesn't hurt until the last bit.