Ok so. Back story, I started developing early, around age 8. Mum took me to the consultant, ended up on hormone injections until I was 10 to try and delay any further development and obviously therefore my period.
So I started my first period around age 10/11. I understand there is a scientific link between precocious puberty and early menopause.
I am age 33, 34 this year. My teenage years my periods were horrendous,not all that heavy, but the pain oh my days!! I used to vomit every single month, had diahorrea, that sort of thing. Had my two kids, dream periods. I’ve always been every 28 days without fail.
However. As soon as I hit 30, they begin to shimmy about a bit, just a day or two early or late here and there. Recently my cycle has been around 26 days.
Then in October just past, I had a really heavy first day, clots and all. Never had them before. Rest as normal. That didn’t happen again until January. Both times I had a splitting headache that wouldn’t budge, similar to when I went into labour.
And then this month, I’m all of 4/5 days early!! Painful. No clots or anything. My PMS chops and changes but it’s mostly always been bad enough that my husband created a song called Stellas Grumpy Week...
Does this sound like perimenopause????