I'm definitely in perimenopause- I took HRT for a while but it didn't help, then I had to come off it for some tests and I've not really started it again.
Periods became very heavy, then were heavy but shorter (3-4 days instead of 5-7), more spaced out (ranged from 4weeks to 9weeks), then I had a gap of 5 months with nothing.
I had some brown spotting for about 4 days, 2 weeks ago (after a gap of about 8 weeks), then I've started with the same again today.
Normally I'd ignore, but I'm sure I heard that more regular bleeding than normal needs to be checked out - or have I got that wrong?