Periods getting further apart at 45yrs old. Is this the start of peri menopause?

Hello

Yep, I'm exactly the same. My periods were always regular then they started getting further apart, then I was having them about every 18/19 days and I've just started again today and this one is 42 days since my last!

I'm 45 as well and feel exactly as you do along with acid reflux thrown in!

Best wishes

Hi Victoria 

no two women are the same ...  

Basically periods decline at different levels for each woman..

12 - 14 months no periods following peri menopause = post menopause 

( if no HRT or birth control is taken) 

HRT works for some ladies but HRT just postpones menopause and boosts the hormones back up, so when HRT is stopped peri menopause starts all over again ..

i didnt take HRT and didnt want to, i am now poat menopause age 51 

after a 9/10 year natural peri meno. ( using supplements and vitamin boosts) 

look up 66 symptoms of peri menopause .. Most ladies have some of those ..

jay x

https://patient.info/forums/discuss/66-peri-menopause-menopause-symptoms-you-may-experience-which-may-help-some-ladies-271903

scroll down on page for 50 - 66 as some ladies commented before part two was entered on the discussion 

jay x

Changing period cycles are related to irratic hormone production.  The eggs you have left are not producing adequate levels of estrogen and progesterone to produce regular and normal bleeding.  Continuous bleeding and or heavy bleeding can be high estrogen stimulation without ovulatory cycles.  As I got closer to menopause, my cycles spaced out,  dwindling  to one every two, then three, then six months.  

Thanks ladies. I will check out that link. My mother never went through menopause cause she had a hysterectomy at 32 due to cancer. So she never had any of those symptoms. I discuss it with friends in my age group, but it's sometimes easier to find answers on groups like this.

When reason is your thyroid could be doing this. You should have your thyroid checked out because if it is low it can make you tired, have mood swings like depression and anxieties. I have hypothyroidism and my periods were always irregular plus i am on medication too. 

I would have your thyroid checked to see where it is because low thyroid can make your period irregular and it can make you tired also have your iron and vitamin d level checked with your thyroid too because low vitamin d and low iron can make a person lethargic so have all three checked out 

Good luck hope you find your answer 

Yes! My peri started with the same thing and I even skipped some months. Now four years later my periods are every three weeks sometimes. Sometimes not. I cant predict them anymore.

Thanks ladies! It's comforting to know that there are many others who are going through the same thing. And we just have to deal with each new symptom and experience as it comes. I guess it's all just part of being a woman!

Hi Victoria - I am 45 and the pattern you describe started for me this year - all last year I was still regular at my usual 25/27 days and the flow was similar but slightly different and I knew something had changed.  This year I missed a period, then a few regularly spaced ones, then a sort of period 2 weeks later and then a 41 day gap.  I'm pretty sure what happens next is anyones guess, which I am none too happy about I miss my regular cycle with none of the weird on and off feelings of various things being amiss.

I hope you get your period soon as the waiting and no knowing can be distracting.

Yes, I am 45 and mine kept getting further apart. The longest so far was 7 months.