Okay. If your doctor gave you hormones, you are probably in perimenopause, unless there was some other less common reason for it? What tends to happen in your cycles get a little longer or sometimes shorter and for some people the bleeding gets much heavier and that's why so many women in their 40s end up with a D&C or ablation. But eventually the cycles kind of lengthen and the periods get a little more erratic. You might start your period, it goes away for a day or two, comes back for a day or two and you're done. That sort of thing.
Other symptoms are hot flashes, some people have trouble sleeping, some get kind of emotional sort of like a PMS thing and that is also from the change in hormones. Perimenopause can go on for years before you finally stop having periods altogether.
Since you are on hormones my guess is you are perimenopausal and that would make it less likely for you to have become pregnant easily but not impossible. If you want to go to the doctor they can check for pregnancy with a blood test earlier and with better accuracy than the over the counter urine test. So that's an option.
Good luck and don't worry about writing again if you have more to discuss. That's what we're here for.
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Okay. If your doctor gave you hormones, you are probably in perimenopause, unless there was some other less common reason for it? What tends to happen in your cycles get a little longer or sometimes shorter and for some people the bleeding gets much heavier and that's why so many women in their 40s end up with a D&C or ablation. But eventually the cycles kind of lengthen and the periods get a little more erratic. You might start your period, it goes away for a day or two, comes back for a day or two and you're done. That sort of thing.
Other symptoms are hot flashes, some people have trouble sleeping, some get kind of emotional sort of like a PMS thing and that is also from the change in hormones. Perimenopause can go on for years before you finally stop having periods altogether.
Since you are on hormones my guess is you are perimenopausal and that would make it less likely for you to have become pregnant easily but not impossible. If you want to go to the doctor they can check for pregnancy with a blood test earlier and with better accuracy than the over the counter urine test. So that's an option.
Good luck and don't worry about writing again if you have more to discuss. That's what we're here for.
July 15, 2010 - 6:45amThis Comment
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