Sorry I wasn’t sure which board to post this on so have gone for Chat.
I’m 42 and for the last 5 years my periods have been so light I can get away with panty liners and the odd tampon, and short In duration too, just 2-3 days plus a few days of spotting.
All of a sudden and out of the blue I am leaking blood like there’s no tomorrow. This was preceded by 6 days of brown and sometimes bright red spotting. I haven’t had to run to the loo to prevent an accident like this since a Labour government probably! (Was on the pill for the Coalition govt. Not sure why offering political context to my periods but there you go!)
I’m at work and actually just had to grab paper towel from the kitchen and stuff it in my pants 
. Thank god my officemates not in today!
I’m just wondering if this could be one of two things.
A) Could I briefly, briefly have been pregnant??
B) Or - is this the heavy period that I read happens in later perimenopause? It seems odd if it’s this though to happen so suddenly, without a gradual change from light periods to heavy first.
Any thoughts please would be very gratefully received. I’m totally discombobulated by this.
I have sadly never been pregnant due to male factor infertility (and also now my age).
So - if it is a sign that I might - briefly - have been pregnant, then this would be amazing. (Despite the bleeding. I guess the ‘never been pregnant’ brigade would understand.)