53 and bleeding just like I had just given birth to my kids

The same happened to me for about a year - I called it gushing.  Really distressing so I can understand how you feel.  My doctor just told me it was my body's farewell to periods.  It still took a year though.

Good luck and rest assured, it does all end sometime!

Allison

I am running a home daycare with my daughter. It's really difficult to take off to go to the doctor, and I am prone to panic attacks, so getting a lot of procedures isn't something I can do now.  I have a long list of health problems, including diabetes, asthma with chronic cough, and stress and urge incontinence, obesity.

I have been digging deeper into researching what is more likely wrong with me that isn't cancer, delving into medical research instead of just posts and blogs, but this place was/is a great help to me with all the wonderful people sharing their experiences and support. I have concluded that I am estrogen dominant and severely low progesterone.

Everyone has to figure out what works for them. I tried bioidentical micronized progesterone cream for 3 months and saw improvement in my bleeding and clotting, but I stopped for two months to test it. Things got oh so much worse! So I'm back on the progesterone cream and seeing improvement.

I had terrible insomnia until I tried evening primrose oil. Worked like a charm! After a few months I stopped taking it to test it, and the insomnia came back. I started taking the primrose again, and my sleep has been wonderful and my brain fog much less.I also take the usual vitamins and mineral supplements.

However, I tried Vitex (chasteberry) and started to get pains in my kidneys after a few days so I stopped and it went away.

I'm also just getting over that respiratory illness. A few years ago I had to have some molars extracted. I think it was because I was severely vitamin D deficient. I now take large doses of D3 to maintain an optimal level.

Have you read the various books on hormones and perimenopause? There's also a blog from a professional medical writer who talked about her terrible bleeding and problems going through peri.

I'm hoping all this bleeding is at the end of peri, like I've read. I started skipping periods more than ten years ago! I thought my periods were just going to go away quietly and I'd slip into real menopause without a glich! Wrong! There's a parable in the bible about a woman who was bleeding for 12 years and suffered much at the hands of doctors-I bet! Just the thought of all those procedures in my who-who give me a panic attack!

I'm in the US as well and I also bleed very heavy. It's horrible, I can't sleep because I'm afraid of bleeding all over and when I get up it's like Niagra Falls, gets all over me. My last period, I bled through my pants at work, fortunately my top was long enough to cover the stain until I got home. I won't go anywhere but work when I have my period because of the gushing. I've been this way for years though. I'm trying to deal with as just a fact of life for a woman. Taking recommended supplements but really holds me back. I'm 52 and cannot wait until I'm done. I wish they had night time diapers for heavy bleeders so the bed doesn't get messed up lol

I am in the UK so do not know about Obama care etc so can not comment on this(tho I have heard from fb friends about it).

Now I do not wish to butt in or to scare you. .. but may I ask if any of you had a break before your "gushing" flows started?

I am asking for a reason