(I fully intend to make a GP appointment but NHS Wales being what it is, it will be at least 3 weeks, possibly longer, before I can see one in person by which time I'm hoping this will have self resolved anyway!)
I'm 45 and since about 13 have had pretty much regular periods. Every 25-28 days almost without fail, lasting 4-5 days. Never late apart from when PG, occasionally early (21 days). They tend to be heavy though, and for the last few years I've used tranexamic acid for the first 2/3 days to ease them a bit which works well. I'm defining heavy as "super plus tampons last less than 2 hours and need to get up in the night to change pads". Fortunately they've never been painful beyond what a couple of nurofen deals with!
When my periods first started at 12, I had about a year of them being irregular and stop/starting but never late - always early and horribly heavy. But they settled down and have been as described above ever since.
Until the last 2 months.
Last month it took 8 days for bleeding to stop and then I had a bit of spotting 3 days later.
This month it took 9 days for bleeding to stop, and 10 days later it started up again 😣 spotting at first but now turned into typical flow.
Other than that no symptoms whatsoever. But it's like my periods have gone back to how they were the first year I had them!
I know nobody can offer actual medical advice and that seeing a GP is advisable for any unusual bleeding but is my suspicion that this is perimenopause related likely to be correct, anyone?