Age 40 gap between periods is getting shorter...?

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Is this normal? Always been 28 days then went down to 26 now down to 24. Is this start of peri menopause? I have had worsening anxiety etc too and extreme tiredness

It may well be..peri can start 12 years before menopause.....

Possibly, though this started happening to me aged 36. It's now 8 years later and I still have no other signs of peri-menopause.

It sounds like it. I’m peri-menopausal too and that’ll end more frequent periods were the first sign. I now also have night sweats and random hot flashes during the day. Look out for the other symptoms.

• the not that'll end

Yes, nearly 45 here and since age 39 my rock-steady 28 day cycle that I'd had for years has changed anywhere from 18 up to 56 days, with no rhyme nor reason ." Peri delights! Always be prepared...

I reckon so, mine have been complicated by fibroids treatment for heavy bleeding (although I reckon some of that might have been peri related) but now that seems to have settled, apart from a freakishly long 36 day cycle, I'm currently down 22-24. I even had a 19 day cycle a couple of months ago. Cos who doesn't love a period every couple of weeks

I’m 47, I’ve also gone from 28 to 26.

I’m tired too, but I don’t know if that’s just life, or peri-menopause!

My cycles went down to 22/3 days in my early 40s. I'm 51 and they're still the same. But yes in hindsight I think it is the start of the perimenopause.