Menopause

Or should I say not yet…

I have an app on my phone where I keep track of my menstrual cycles. I’ve been using the same app for years and had pretty good records of it all. Then my phone kind of died in June or July and Apple replaced my phone and I lost the data. (I did have the option to do backups and I used to do them but hadn’t lately.)

I hadn’t had a proper period all year. I’m pretty sure the last one was in December last year but I wasn’t totally sure. I had a bit of spotting one day in March but didn’t count that at all. My period had been showing up about every two months most of last year and I thought maybe they had just come to a stop. Anyway, I had gone all year and I said to the Scientist just a few days ago that I was going to be pretty annoyed if I had gone all this time and then had another period.

Well, I came home from tai chi tonight and went to the toilet and guess what I discovered? The really bad part of this is I have no idea what to expect this time since it’s been so long. I did notice some breast tenderness a couple days ago but shrugged it off at the time. That must have been a bit of mild PMS.

Although I felt a bit sad about reaching menopause, I had come to some acceptance of it. But now the counting starts again. One small plus is I will now have a date to count from. And I will back up my data regularly this time. :)