A rare visitor
I guess at this point I should call it a rare and unwelcome visitor. My period showed up again for the first time in six months. This is four months less than the last period of time between “cycles”. So at the very least my menopause won’t be until I’m 54. My periods started kind of early when I was ten so it would just happen I’d have them late too. I know I am still within the average range but I’m slowly reaching that upper end of average.
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Valerie
I was curious what the distribution is, so I googled up a graph:
https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0378512203002159-gr1.gif
Ye gads, there is a tiny number of women who reach menopause at age 64! And there might even be some at 65 — the graph is hard to read there.
Sigh….
Purple Lorikeet
I’ve heard of extreme cases like 64 but I assume that is well out of normal range. I’m going to assume/hope mine is finished well before then. I’m sure I had something else to add but now I’ve forgotten…it will eventually come back to me, I think. :D
Joy
Interesting… My periods petered out a couple years ago. Medical providers would ask me when my last period was (as they do), and I’d say… October… a couple years ago. lol But my GP tells me that even though the cycles have stopped, my body will still be adjusting to the new normal for a few years, and that that no periods do not mean I’m done with menopause. It feels like it, though. Other symptoms have also disappeared (waking up in middle of the night, hot flashes or flushes, vaginal dryness, fogginess, etc). Just as a data point, I didn’t get my first period until 14.
I have been taking more Vitamins D/Calcium and got a bone scan last year as a baseline for bone loss.