Period again after none for 2 years?

Hi Eileen, I am same age as you and yes, book an appointment soon as you can. As you can see, it’s very, very common and it is a bit of a relief to see how common it is. Since I posted and over past 3 days, mine became a lot heavier, I had to buy sanitary products, but it is subsiding and becoming lighter now. It’s been exactly like a period, only I’m getting no pain, just a heavy feeling. I phoned the doctors day after bank holiday, Tuesday and have an appointment tomorrow. I think they are going to check to see if I’m actually in menopause, because despite not having a period for over 2 years, I’ve never actually been verified as in menopause. I just assumed I was with my last being over 2 years ago. Truth is I probably am, but they just want to rule it out I guess. If you need to talk, there’ll always be someone here for you. Good luck.

Thanks very much, yes I was telling my husband the pain is horrible. I am calling Doc tomorrow. 

Hi Eileen I am 50 and have not had a period for three and a half years. All of a sudden a few weeks ago I woke up and was spotting. I called the doctor who of course said that I had to go for an ultrasound. I scheduled it and much like everybody else here found that my uterine lining was thicker than acceptable. I then had the biopsy which came back negative. I have to say much like a lot of others here if I hadn't found this site I would have lost my mind. It's very comforting to find that it is a common occurrence and in most cases it ends up being nothing. Go get it checked out for the Peace of Mind. I'm sure you'll be fine. Good luck!

Thanks, yes it dose feel good for feedback. I here a lot of this is normal 

Just wondering if anyone had bad experience?

I'm happy you went to the doctor and everything was alright...I can relate what a relief. I had to go to the E.R. two weeks ago..I woke up out of a deep sleep with my heart racing my head felt like I was submerged in water my shoulders and back hurt my arm was numb it was so scary... I had the hot and cold clamy sweats. The hospital checked me out I even passed a stress test..They released me with no answers I had been going through this for a while but not this severe.. I went to my regular doctor she asked me if I had been experiencing really bad hotflashes and cold spells lately a lot more than usual I said YES! She told me she went through all my test results...I'm suffering from severe menopause!! She put me on 3mg of Premarin I may have to adjust the mg up to six mg but I need to take it for two weeks to start seeing results..The doctor wants me on it for a year. I haven't had a period since Feb of 2016 she had already cleared me of not being able to make a baby. This menopause thing has been a bumpy ride...I'm so glad you're 👌

Hi this is Sister 59 sometimes the doctors don't know if you can have a baby or not because of menopause God only knows the medicine they give us some time stop us from doing anything and have it anything we just have to go to where I mine and go to God In Prayer I think you should get another persons you know ask them what's going on I don't think that the menopause got anything to do with you having a baby are year from now or two years from now God Saves you going to have a child and menopause don't have nothing to do with it you just getting older and you just going through the lifestyle that woman's go through have a blessed day and wish you well say blessing God

Thank You...The Doctor did a full blood work on me...she told me I'm no longer ovulating...I'm in full menopause She better be right!!! She knows my husband has six kids his youngest is 8 and he is 52. I just started this medication I will let you all know if it works...Take Care

Hi Ladyspice and thanks. Its what I am now dreading actually, being in full menopause and because of stories like yours. And because I’m ‘borderline’, I am not far off.

For the past 2 years and 5 months, I thought I was already in menopause at aged 52 and given I’d had no period for all that time. So I’d just assumed I was having an easy menopause, as I wasn’t getting the hot and cold sweats as other women describe. .......Sometimes I feel quite hot and my face is flushed, but I’m not breaking out in sweats or other menopause symptoms. So I’m dreading all that.

 But it just goes to prove how wrong the medical textbooks can be. In that if we’ve not had a period in 12 months and we are in our fifties, we can assume we’ve hit or are in the menopause.........Well I’m proof of how wrong the textbooks can be. You can still not be in the menopause, even if you’ve missed a period, for 2 and a half years and you are in your fifties.

Another blood test is scheduled for me in November, to check if I’m in menopause then. Meanwhile, I’ve been told to expect further periods and told I still could get pregnant. Just as well I was divorced a few years ago and not in a relationship since. 😳

 

I just wanted to give an update on my (Doctor called it severe menopause) I've been on the medication Premarin 0.3 Mg for two weeks now...I got to tell you the first nine days were brutal I didn't encounter a change at all..on the 10th it's starting to kick in I had my first night rest without waking up several times in sweat..my heart pounding in my chest and the headaches. This had been going on for months and was getting worse.. I'm finely seeing a difference.. She told me on this medication the most I can take is 0.6 Mg I take it nightly before bed because it can cause stomach upset you can't take it on an empty stomach..so far so good none of those issues. I just hope it gets better I am still experiencing the hotflashes during the day but they are small and don't last very long and not as often. I'm keeping my fingers crossed because there is not a lot of options for medications for me because I still have my uterus and lady parts..Good Luck to everyone that's going on this roller coaster called menopause.

Hi Debra

How did you get on? Have you heard any thing yet? I would have been two years without periods in June. In April started getting very painful boobs a bit like I had with pms. Then May Day bank holiday Monday had very pale pink bleeding. Thought it may be just a spot but it carried on, I went to doc she did an exam said my cervix look inflamed (?!) sent me to gynaecologist dpt had vus which showed a small cyst on an ovary and a small fibroid as well as thickened womb lining. Then I had a hysteroscopy. The consultant said everything looked ok but took a biopsy. I was too shocked after exams to ask questions and just wanted to get out of there. Not heard back since but a month later I’m having another period, this one is more like the ones i used to have.  I have been back to my gp about my 2nd bleed but she  did nothing and I have tried to call the hospital but they won’t say anything except they have a backlog. I mean reading all these posts has massively put me as ease but the big C thing is always at the back of your mind. I have been married 25 year mid June and was supposed to be going on a second honeymoon but I haven’t even booked thing because I am so worried that i won’t want to go.  

Anyway hope you are ok x

Hiya. You are the same age as me. Like you I’d not had a period in 2 years, 5 months, then suddenly I had one. I’d originally thought I was in menopause, because the textbooks inform us that if we’ve missed a period for 12 months running in our fifties, chances are we’ve hit menopause. ......But, like you I’d had none of the hot and cold sweats, or mood changes etc either, so I too had assumed I was just having an easy time...........Turns out and after a blood test and to determine if I am in the menopause or not, I am not in menopause, but I am ‘borderline menopause’. So it was actually a period, which I’d known it was, because everything about it pointed to a period and I was told I might get another period too.

I am not sure why your doctor wouldn’t have taken a blood test to actually determine if you are in menopause or not. But you could always ask for one. Chances are, your age of 52, combined with no menopause symptoms and you are 100% this was a period, that you are like me, ‘borderline menopause’, but I’d still have a test to see if you are or not.

Joanne, my story is EXACTLY the same as yours!  I mean exactly right down to how long I went without a period and the blood work, the only difference was I was 59 which shocked me! The period I had after 2 1/2 years was a FLOOD and lasted about 6 to 8 weeks! I had all test done and I do mean all , thank God everything was fine!

My PCP said if I have another bleeding, she will send me to have a biopsy. I have an annual physical coming up in summer, she said a pap will be done as well.

Last night I have asked a friend of a friend who is an experienced gynecologist. She advised that if bleeding occurs again, it may be cause for concern but otherwise there is nothing else to be done now. Fingers crossed she is right!

What you need is a blood test to determine if you are in menopause or not, before any biopsy. Especially if you’ve not had this test done. It could well be that you don’t need any biopsy at all. .......The test also checks your thyroid and kidneys, though I’m unsure how they link up to menopause, but mine were fine. Hope things go well for you anyway.

its all very strange isn’t it. I mean here we are, going about our business thinking we are in menopause and those years of periods are over and then ‘wham’, a period out of the blue. I was literally taken aback, came online immediately and was horrified by things I was reading, then I found this website. It didn’t really stop me from worrying and panicking though. I was imagining all sorts and that knowing my luck I’d be one of those unlucky ones in the 10%........I was at same time, convinced this was definitely a period and not something more sinister. I began thinking, ‘Am I in menopause or not’, because while I thought I was, I’d never been tested. But I honestly thought I was, given no period for almost two and a half years. At the end of the day, we women go through 40 years of a monthly period, we know the signs/symptoms, etc, we know our own bodies, what is normal for us and what is not. Everything about this, smacked of a period, down to colour, smell, growing heavier on the second day, but subsiding by the fifth day and length of time it lasted, which for me was usually 5 to 7 days.......I was literally over the moon when the doctor told me I was ‘borderline’. I’d have been shocked, had she said anything different.......I was so happy, I was almost crying. Am pleased everything was fine for you too. I’m back in November though, to have a blood test done, to see if Im actually in menopause by then.