My friend has PCOS and had a lot of bleeding in peri so had the mirena coil fitted which helped.
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Unfortunately I have HEDS and I've done a ton of research into the coil and it doesn't seem to be great for us
Thanks anyway. Glad your friend found it helped though.
Tbh we are all different.
I think I had this at the very start of my peri journey. Only having a week or two between very heavy periods/flooding. I was always very light before peri. Thankfully it settled after a couple of months and it didn’t happen like that again.
Just keep a record of it in case you need to see your GP.
I had 7 years of peri and I still have all my calendars monitoring my periods, length, etc. I’m only a month post menopause so I’ve not thrown them out yet but I think I’m clear now.
I'd go for a Mirena coil in a flash if the insertion process wasn't so horrible.
My periods have become quite irregular now, but until now, there were certain hormone clues that told me when it was about to arrive. Even they're going south now.
I feel like Sam in Quantum Leap, hoping every time that my period won't come and I'll be able to take the leap home.
My periods have become quite irregular now, but until now, there were certain hormone clues that told me when it was about to arrive. Even they're going south now.
I feel like Sam in Quantum Leap, hoping every time that my period won't come and I'll be able to take the leap home.
I’m on day 27. I’m normally on a 24 day cycle, but I’ve had really weird pinging pain more in line with ovulation pain the last two days - enough to make me gasp in pain - On the opposite side to when actually ovulation occurred - or maybe didn’t? I’m so confused. Some days I’m just convinced I’m full of cancer. I have a scan coming up. I’m still off hrt. I want my fairly normal predictable body back.
The insertion is horrible, but the experience after was worse for me, I personally wouldn’t recommend it. If you do go for it, definitely load up on cocodamol in advance. I’ve had two, both pre and post birth. It’s easier after but still not nice.
Another thing that is possibly peri... I mostly drink water but for a wee pick-me-up I will occasionally grab a red BPM... I normally love the flavour but lately when I've got one half the time it tastes like sewage. My husband tastes it and says it tastes normal to him, so it must be my taste buds. 
I was out playing pickleball last night and felt quite okay in my body, even though I'd got shorts on. It was moving as it should and I just felt okay. Today, I caught sight of myself side-on in a mirror and nearly puked. I used to be a slim pear shape, now I'm an overbalanced, large apple who's too short to carry weight and look good.
I feel your pain, I feel ok till I see either a picture of myself or in the mirror
I have always been like this, one of the few things I can't blame on peri!I feel your pain, I feel ok till I see either a picture of myself or in the mirror
OMFG I’m so hot. I’m not even in the south and I’m like a sodden, blown up, tired, sweaty balloon.
I need to stay up to go out with the dog but I’m exhausted.
I need to stay up to go out with the dog but I’m exhausted.
My body image has never been great, but peri (and probably actual early meno now) has taken it to new depths.
I can't look at pictures of myself from 10-15 years ago, when I was thin and confident with fashion.
I just look like I’ve been pulled downwards. My mother sent me old pictures of myself as she was Swedish death cleaning. I looked ok until about 2019 whereas now I’m like someone who’s been living on Jupiter with many times the force the gravity acting on them.
I've spread outwards. I've got this awful heavy tummy that doesn't look good in anything. At the moment, my ankle is swollen due to a bit of an injury, so my transformation into my mum is complete.
I’ve always had a tummy (it’s partly the way I stand and my ribs) and even at my smallest it was there. Now however, it goes up and down like a yoyo which I find quite hard to dress for. My mum’s the same though and when she was really ill 18 months ago and really small, her tummy was still there.
It’s hard to reconcile in your mind though isn’t it? That the person you are in your head isn’t the person who looks back at you in the mirror. I don’t feel 44, even typing those numbers feels terrifying. Yet I know I’m looking it nowadays.
I look in the mirror and see my mum now.
I’ve also realised why she always used to buy me clothes she wanted to wear but couldn’t.
I’ve also realised why she always used to buy me clothes she wanted to wear but couldn’t.
I do too. When I moaned to my best friend about it she replied “Think yourself lucky, when I look in the mirror I see my dad!” 🫣
I’m on holiday at the moment and, looking around the beach, most women over about 45 are tending towards the egg on legs look (including me I may add). It’s so depressing, menopause really does a job on us.
I'm just consoling myself with the fact that I won't have periods to deal with fairly soon. I can't wait for that bit.
I notice this in my exercise class… there are older ladies who are quite slim and fit but still have a rounded middle. It’s such a shame it’s not just normalised and we can worry about more interesting things.
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