Wow. I am 47 and I started out on the 5th with a bad Migraine and then on the 6th out of nowhere I have these awful cramps and heavy bleeding for one day out of nowhere. I am not due for a period and missed one month. I have endometriosis and had four surgeries over 15 years ago and have not had cramps since then, but about one month ago I started up with a lot of pain. I am not sure what this means, but it is definitely hormonal fuctuations. What is your age and did you have your annual exam and hormone levels checked? I have to go in for my exam next week, but that is the beginning of menopause. I know it has something to do with the estrogen levels. I have had the spotting also. Mine may be a bit different as I have endometriosis which is very complicated.

I am also stumped. I started having perimenopausal symptoms about 10 years ago--hot flashes, night sweats, irregular periods. This past year I went 4 months without a period and then the flood gates opened. Thereafter I have been back to the irregular periods. I had a normal period around Xmas, but then just a few days ago I had some brownish spotting. I don't know how much longer this will go on.

My older sister told me she stopped having periods for a full year and then they restarted, and then stopped again for good after about another year.

I am 50
I've been in peri for a while now but still have had regular periods except for the beginning of 2010 but since they've been very regular. As I said, like clockwork.

This is now day 3 of just a bit of brownish discharge (really dark brown) but not enough to show on my maxipad. I still have a bit of cramping off and on.
Sigh.
I did google it and it appears that it's hormonal goofiness?
Glad to hear I'm not alone though

Hi everyone, Missperi here, just kidding. I want to say that mine stopped today when I woke up thank God and the Migraine. It was only one day. The pain was awful. When does this stop? Help, I am also becoming evil.

I too am in the age range. I either have full on no holds barred, cramps and all periods, or three days of fairly light uncomplicated ones.. either way, this last one was only slightly over two weeks ago, and bam, started again yesterday. I can deal with that, I knew it was coming..I can deal with the night sweats, the hot flashes, etc. What I can't deal with are the mood swings! OMG, I go from my normal loving nurturing self to the devil in levi's in 2.2 seconds. I am not a mean person, yet I have driven the people I love the most away.... and I CAN"T help it!! What do I do about that?

Yeah, I left a discussion topic - "Am I premenopausal" as I am the same, I have 2 or 3 periods in a year and a couple of days ago had pinkish-reddish on the pad. It was definitely blood but theres virtually nothing now, and I'm left with the pain and the dizziness. (like I'm on a merrygoround) Dont know if its peri or not. Or medication stopping it. I have since read Blue Cohosh and Angelica are good for starting the period off again. Will try it. If it works, I will recommend to you guys.

By the way, I'm 47 in July. I don't feel like a "proper" woman when I don't have a proper period!! I get so low! I see my beautiful sister with her second child, a beautiful 3 month old girl, and when I cuddle her, I get this crazy feeling of maternal love (though I never tell my sister!) and envy/jealousy of my sister (30). I miscarried my only pregnancy in 2002 (with my lovely hubby) and never got another chance as he is now in a home with Alzheimer's. So when a "period" arrives, I'm delighted! Sorry for my moan!

This does Not Qualitfy as a period.

I just went thru this for 2 Months..Just some brownish discharge, or I guess it is Decomposed blood, seeping out very slowly.

FREAKED me OUT...cause Even THO my Cycles had been coming Closer together, they HAD been Regular. Finally the day before Christmas it started back up all nice and Normal Like.

My Body Hates me.

After I had written to you earlier about the Black Cohosh, I went to the loo, and it was coincidentally starting to bleed a little but nothing to write home about. I went to the health food shop and bought Black Cohosh. I've taken 2 soft gel capsules with my even meal tonight (theyre 40g each) so will soon see if anything happens. You take two in morning, two in evening. Will update you.

My gyn kept me on a low does of the birth control pill to help with my symptoms but I have to go off of them when I'm 52 (in 1 1/2 years). It regulates when I might have one but over the last 8 years I rarely have what I would call a real period. Once in a blue moon I'll have maybe a day where there's actually red blood. Most of the time it's the brown sticky discharge that really is more annoying and gross than a flow of any sort. I always assumed it was because I was ending my periods and I was still on the pill. I went off the pill about 5 years ago to do homone levels and I had a real period then but back on the pill and they're gone. I don't know what to make of them. I'm going to do hormone levels again in May when I go for my annual (need a colonoscopy too, now that's a treat to be jealous of ladies "-)

Sandy

Sobe,

I am down to 2 periods a year and was due for one last month but all I had was a day of light brown discharge. I had the cramps though for about 4 days. Even though I only am having 2 periods a year now, some months will be like this, maybe only cramps and no discharge though.

Tracy