Should I be worried that I haven't had any symptoms?

[showgirl63]

I'll be 58 this year, and I don't think I'm showing any peri symptoms, never mind meno symptoms.

My periods are more regular now than ever (PCOS caused more symptoms when I was younger/pre- child), last 5-6 days, normally heavy for 2. I don't have hot sweats, flushes etc. I am over weight and losing seems harder than it has in past, but could be no gyms/ lockdown sluggishness etc.

My mum is no help as she says she has no idea when her periods finished as she took the pill back to back into her 60's!

Should I be concerned? Reading other threads people talk about 5 years of peri before meno so am I going to be dealing with periods into my mid 60s?

Anyone else in the same boat?

A woman I work with has breezed through hers. The only thing she has is a coil that’s been in for about 25 years, she assumes that has helped.

I've never had a coil, never needed from a contraceptive angle and normally periods, even on heavy days are manageable

I am the same age and haven't had the usual symptoms though I do get hot at night now which was never a thing for me until 2 years ago.

Maybe I'll be really lucky and just stop periods with no symptoms but after struggling with PCOS when younger I doubt my body will do things the easy way!

Raininsummer - did your mum have late meno too?

I'm a planner by nature and hate having no idea when this will end

I went through the menopause without any of the usual symptoms, my periods just gradually stopped in my mid fifties. I also had a coil for about 30 years. When I had it removed for the final time, the Doctor found two in there. One was such a museum piece he was going to show it to his colleagues as he'd never seen one like it before.

It's quite rare @showgirl63 for periods to last into the late 50s but not unheard of - though you're in the minority.
You simply won't know when they are going to stop.
Your weight could well be a factor (depends what you mean by overweight!) but it does put you at risk for other serious illness so worth addressing that.

As long as you are sure that the bleeding IS a period, that's okay! But if it's not like a period, or they stopped and you've got some bleeding, best chat to your dr just to check you've not got fibroids or anything going on with your womb that's the cause of the bleeding.

This is a useful bit of info

www.healthline.com/health/menopause/late-onset#Pregnancy-and-late-onset-menopause

Thank you Junglinghelldbells, that article helps - if I avoid getting pregnant (no chance) and continue with regular health checks I should be ok to just wait and see for another few years, as I am sure they are periods, not unexplained bleeding

I think my Mum was mid fifties. I know she didn't take hrt but used various herbal things like evening primrose and black cobosh so I guess that means she wasn't climbing the walls with symptoms either. I couldn't tell well when my periods started to space out as I had a Mirena until a year ago but I know I had one last summer as I did actually have a check up to be sure it wasn't sinister bleeding.

I think there has been research done which shows that women with PCOS remain fertile for longer than women without it. I have pcos myself but am in the slender bracket. In peri I think, at 47.

My natural cycle when I was younger was never way out either in terms of pcos irregularity.

Curleyhairedassin- that's interesting; there seems to be minimal research into PCOS after menopause (probably as both are female issues) Perhaps PCOS delaying menopause should be studied more!