post menopausal bleeding or period

[Lkbbdg]

How do you tell the difference?

No periods since July and then in early December a small bleed for a day and again today. Do I assume it's a very light period or go and see the GP?

Post menopause is defined as 12 months without a period. So you will now start counting from today for another 12 months.

www.menopausedoctor.co.uk/menopause/what-is-the-menopause

If between now and Feb 2020, you have no more periods you can then say in Feb 2020 you are post menopause.

At the moment you are perimenopausal.

I was hoping it was post-menopause for me now since it's been since August-December with nothing. December was just a few spots and nothing else but this has turned into a proper period

You can't be post menopause until Dec 2019 if your last period was Dec 18.

12 months always from last period.

i'm beginning to think i should go to the gp - my periods were 1 or 2 days long for months and months and then nothing for 5 months and now it's day 6.

why do you think you need see a GP? what do you expect them to do?
This is all perfectly normal-that's what happens in peri- irregular periods of varying length. It's nothing your GP can change.

It's not anything I've experienced before and I've been in peri for the last ten years; all my periods were either 4 days or 2 days during that time and then 1 day before they stopped for several months, I've never had one that was a week long ever.

You are having a longer period because you have more than one month's lining to shed. Your womb lining can still build up when you aren't having monthly periods. This is why women who have long gaps between periods in peri sometimes have flooding once their late period comes.

A week is nothing anyway for a normal period.

You appear to have had unnaturally short periods all your life- a normal flow can last anything from 2- 7 days.

www.verywellhealth.com/how-long-does-a-period-last-how-many-days-each-month-2721931

Might help if you have a good read around online about peri meno because you seem a bit unsure of what it can involve.

There is loads of info out there.

I had a flooding period, the bloodiest I probably ever had after I'd been without a period once for 5 months and then 4 months.

It's very destabilising as you think you are making to the other side and then you have to start again. I had no period from Jan 18 and then just spotting for one day in September, but that was enough to start the clock again. I really really hope Sept 2019 will mark one year.

@lkbbdg If you have been in peri for 10 years what kind of symptoms have you had- and how old are you now?
If you are now 50-ish it might all be coming to an end soon.

Yeah, I'm in my mid 50s. I've been through flooding, hot flushes, aches and pains, emotional crap and the last three years have been very scant periods. I can't wait for it to end.