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  1. hazel said:

    September 7, 2010 @ 1:23 pm

    Unlikely ..Check the rash out, it may be Shingles…keep a diary on your periods over the next six months along with any symptoms, you may be hormonally unbalanced

  2. Lynda said:

    October 12, 2010 @ 11:21 pm

    Relating to the concerns of Gail, I am 53 years old, having been diagnosed with a DVT and recovering from a recent MI, I have not had a period for 14 months, but have recently started a period again, please advise me if this is normal?

    I also have concerns about taking prescribed warfarin at this time, is this concern justified?

  3. Amanda Desmond said:

    January 19, 2011 @ 7:46 pm

    I am 43 and have had light, short periods very regularly each month. However I am now on my 2nd period in 11 days.
    I am my bladder leaks slightly when I sneeze and I have vaginal dryness with low sex drive.
    No hot flushes but when I wake in the mornings I found I have sweated over night. Plus, I could sleep for England…..always tired.
    Could this be the start of the menopause???.

  4. diane said:

    February 3, 2011 @ 12:48 pm

    Does anyone know if there is a link between late menopause and problems with the thyroid (hypothyroidism) and pituitary gland?
    I am now in the late onset category (still no sign of menopause yet!) and have recently been diagnosed with a problem with my pituitary gland which has triggered hypothyroidism.

  5. b manning said:

    February 10, 2011 @ 11:28 am

    i am 52 and now have acne like never before skin is horrid can you please advise.

  6. linda said:

    March 1, 2011 @ 11:15 am

    i am 49 and have had irregular periods for a year or so. on the months i have no period i get a pain the is like indegestion and grumbling appendix and this floors me for 5 day, when i have a period the pain is bearable, i have had a smear, ext scan and int scan all of which are clear, i have been given repeat prescription for co-codamol but i cannot drive when taking these due to side effects. my doctor says this will last for 2 years till i have finshed going thro menopause please help as i now travel to work and am unable to go 1 week out of every 5

  7. Kay said:

    March 3, 2011 @ 2:14 pm

    I am 45 & my periods suddenly stopped in December.

    My GP tested my FSH which was 57.8.

    So could I have already gone through the perimenopausal stage without too many symptoms & already be menopausal?

    Looking back over the last year I can recall several symptoms (short periods of night sweats, loss of labido, insomnia, increase in headaches) which I just overlooked or didn’t associate with possible perimenopause.

    Thanks.

  8. cath said:

    March 8, 2011 @ 2:41 pm

    reply for Linda and her pain have you used PONSTAN or SYNDOL

  9. tony roe said:

    March 15, 2011 @ 10:45 am

    hi my wife has been going through the menopause now for approx 16 months. she wont take any tablets for it as she says she is already taking enough for other things .she gets very ratty and has gone off sex altogether. is this normal and how much longer is this menopause going to last.

  10. tracey said:

    March 16, 2011 @ 4:06 pm

    Hi im nearly 45yrs old and have been having painful periods and heavy ones that last for 5days, since having my baby who is now 3, i recently had extremly bad blood clot at the very end of my period, could this be an indication of menopause,no other signs that i have noticed. thanks

  11. hilda fogarty said:

    March 16, 2011 @ 9:27 pm

    hot flushes really bad started menopause at 48 last period at 51 i am now 59 sweats really bad when will it stop

  12. robbie said:

    April 3, 2011 @ 4:13 pm

    Hi. I know it may sound silly but can men get the menopause as I am going thru a lot of the symptoms of it.

  13. Jing said:

    May 9, 2011 @ 3:21 pm

    I have menopause for 5 years now. now I still have hot flush, and serous back pain, my height has reduced nearly 3 cm, I suspect I had osteoporosis, if I take HRT treatment now, would it be too late? I wish I had taken it 5 years ago.

  14. tina said:

    May 12, 2011 @ 12:22 pm

    i have developed skin ec

  15. lee said:

    May 12, 2011 @ 9:43 pm

    im 43yrs old,my last period was seven weeks ago.they have up until now been regular.im getting belly aches and headaches. but no other indications that a period is coming.im having night sweats,but have had night sweats for as long as i can remember.im worried that it could be the menopause.i have read on other related articles that ive read that you can still fall pregnant even if you are going through the menopause is this true.and is 43 to young to be going through it?

  16. sharon carter said:

    May 16, 2011 @ 4:09 pm

    i am 43 years old and have missed a peirod by about 3 weeks now , im not pregnant as ive been steralised and took a test just to be 100% sure which came back negative.
    My stomach has swollen and i look as tho im 6 mths gone constantally hungry even after food .
    I recentally had thrush for which i purchased the cream & tablet from the chemist.
    which has now cleared up.

  17. marie craft said:

    May 20, 2011 @ 6:27 pm

    what can be at the lastest age that you should have stopped the menepause .

  18. katie clark said:

    May 28, 2011 @ 11:20 am

    I stopped having a period ove two years ago but yesterday started to have light bleeding. What would cause this?

  19. Karen said:

    June 10, 2011 @ 12:17 pm

    I have been told to go and see my doctor to have a blood test, as this will show if I am starting the menopause, would this benefit me at all and what could the doctor do

  20. Sally Jones said:

    June 13, 2011 @ 5:03 pm

    I am 52, and have been menopausal for 2 years.

    My problem (and it is serious to me, despite sounding trivial) is that I have developed an adolescent crush on my 29-year old boss… Thinking about him all the time, breath catching when he smiles at me – the works…

    I am happily married, and have no idea where this has come from.

    I’m hoping it is something to do with the hormones rushing round my body, and that it will pass when all other menopausal symptoms sort themselves out.

    Can anyone confirm this, or provide advice???

    Thanks!

  21. gina salter said:

    June 23, 2011 @ 4:34 pm

    I have been expecting a period for 5 days now and I’m suffering real PMS. I usually suffer with PMS but not for this long as I am usually fairly regular. If this is the first time I’m going to miss a period does it mean that I am going to suffer PMS for weeks until a period does arrive?

  22. Julie Shorrock said:

    June 24, 2011 @ 8:31 pm

    I am 48yrs and have had a blood test which says i’m menapausal, my period on the 4th may lasted for 14 days of which the last 5 days were like a brown spotting discharge, my next period started on the 15th june and lasted for 9 days, but this time i was flooding so bad, i needed to change every 30 minutes, i was loosing big clots of blood, is this normal for the menapause?

  23. sue said:

    July 7, 2011 @ 5:43 am

    hi i am 40 and 6 weeks late for my period. I am a regular 28 days normally. I have done a test and had a negetive result. Although i have all the symptons of having my period i have not had any blood. I feel fine and not ill. Half way through this period i did have a bit of spotting for a day. Am i starting the menopause Many thanks Sue.

  24. Marie said:

    July 19, 2011 @ 12:47 am

    I am 52 years old and have periods every 3-4 months. I don’t know if it’s me and am going crazy or it’s my hormones but I think my sense of smell is stronger or more sensitive to smells. I tell my husband that I can smell like when something is scorched or a faint smell of rubber or plastic burning in the living room and kitchen area. He tells me that he can’t smell it. It’s stronger when I walk into the house or in the mornings when I first get up and walk into the living room, kitchen area. Am I going crazy?

  25. sue said:

    August 21, 2011 @ 6:05 pm

    hi can menopause symptoms last till you are 61 ?

  26. Adele said:

    August 23, 2011 @ 7:12 pm

    I’m 42 (tomorrow) my Mum was in her late 30′s when she went on the change. For the pats 12 months my period have changed lasting a week and been very heavy. I’m having hot flushes and sweating. I went for a hormone check with my GP who said my hormone levels didn’t indicate I was going through the menopause. I am sure I’ve read something in a magazine that said a blood test is not an accurante indicator of this. Does anyone else have any info on this?

    Thanks :)

  27. diane said:

    September 23, 2011 @ 1:25 pm

    Can’t find any info ANYWHERE on internet about what to do if menopause won’t start. GP has not a clue so don’t advise seeing them. At nearly 56 I am still not even peri menopause and still having normal periods every month. NO, there is no genetic link. I know that there are both benefits and risks with very late onset menopause. I am gettingso fed up of still getting periods, with no sign of the menopause whatsoever.

  28. mandy said:

    October 4, 2011 @ 6:56 pm

    ive missed my period, 11 days now late, my boobs are sore and feel like im due to bleed any day but nothing ! ive done pregnancy test at home, negative, seeing doctor next week. so are sore swoolen boobs a sympton ?

  29. onlyaguy said:

    October 7, 2011 @ 3:13 pm

    Menopause, Pregnancy & Birth Control.

    Leaving the Forces, stress now reducing, kids moving on, wife & I getting to know each again incl. lots more intimate moments which she looks forward to more than me I suspect!!!. :) [Due to Forces life I have been rather distant I admit, but am working hard at being an attentive husband again].

    Anyway, she is of course starting menopause. Neither of us likes condoms. I don’t want to put her through surgical or more pills or anything at all as she is in remission.

    I maybe a Serviceman but I don’t like the idea of the snip – tho’ my wife does!!!

    Is it OK to continue to use withdrawal (and morning-after-pill in case of accidents) and to resume ejaculating inside her only once she is post-menopausal without still relying on withdrawal and morning-after-pill?

    I suspect that she misses feeling me “finish” inside her so am resigned to the fact that the “snip” may have to be the way forward: we do not want a pregnancy.

    Thank you for your advice.

  30. Pamela Joyce said:

    October 13, 2011 @ 9:44 am

    I started with hot sweats in 2005. My periods started becoming less frequent in 2008 although the flow was normal, the hot sweats became worse and I started having night sweats. I started taking Boots St John’s Wort and Black Cohosh one a day tablets which have been a Godsend.
    I had a period in November 2009, then March 2010, then August 2010. After this my hot/night sweats disappeared and I thought that I was through the menopause although I continued with the tablets.
    In August I had a couple of days of very light flow but since then my hot flushes and night sweats have come back with a vengence, far, far worse than they have been previously. I am not sleeping and consequently neither is my husband and I am screaming at him and the dogs. To make matters worse Boots have stopped doing the tablets and replaced them with a Black Cohosh tablet. Although I can buy St John’s Wort to take alongside it does not seem to be as effective. Clearly there is something in the processing, the coating or the other ingredients that makes a difference for me.
    The sudden resurgence of far worse symptoms is making me wonder how long this is going to go on. If it were a matter of months I could count the days to the light at the end of the tunnel however if it is going to be years I may have to tale HRT (which I really don’t want to do) for the sake of my sanity and my husband’s.

  31. Helen Symes said:

    December 15, 2011 @ 11:45 pm

    In the last 6 wks I have started the menopause. I am eating like a pig but not putting on weight. Is this normal?

  32. Shawn Beavan said:

    December 20, 2011 @ 11:43 pm

    I am 53 and going through menopuase. I have the normal symptoms such as hot flashes, headaches and night sweats. However, I am having smpytoms of face tingling I call shortness of breath. I have gone to a neurogolist for the face tingling and he found nothing wrong. He did blood work and MRI of the brain and everything was normal. I have gone to a lung specialist about the shortness of breath and everyting is normal. She did a chest xray and everything is fine. The shortness of breath is best described as not being able to take a very very deep breath. I am currently on 1.0 mg of Estradiol/Norethindrone Acetate Tablets. I have bee taking them for 7weeks. The face tingling is better but not gone away. The shortness of breath is still there. I read another blog where a lady experience the same shortness of breath feeling as myself. She was put on fluoxetine 10mg once per day and within 2 days was feeling normal again. I’m thinking about asking my doctor to switch me to fluoxetine but not sure. This has been going on since August 2011. I need to feel better and not sure what to do.

  33. ann wadeson said:

    January 10, 2012 @ 11:30 pm

    I am coming up to 52yrs I believe ive been having the menopause for the past five years,this is the worst at the moment ! hot sweats broken nights ,will need to sleep on my own as my husband is just so hot to sleep next to ,trying to get healthier,by eating more fruit and being more active,hate my body atthe moment nothing looks right on .a blob in my middle no waist.

  34. carole said:

    January 17, 2012 @ 11:29 pm

    i have a mireana coil, 2nd one, im 50 how will i know if i become menapausal ? will the coil mask the symptoms ?
    carole

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