Is this peri or miscarriage?

[Anonymous]

I'm 45. Not using contraception, because I've had secondary infertility since my 30s. For the past two years, my periods have become lighter and more bearable than before, which is great. And today, my period was late by a couple a days, and suddenly woosh, instant flooding with a huge clot. My clothes and my chair have a stain. I've never had this except when having a first trimester miscarriage.

Is this a very early miscarriage or does this happen in perimenopause?

[Anonymous]

Why would you risk pregnancy? I mean, come on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm 45. Not using contraception, because I've had secondary infertility since my 30s. For the past two years, my periods have become lighter and more bearable than before, which is great. And today, my period was late by a couple a days, and suddenly woosh, instant flooding with a huge clot. My clothes and my chair have a stain. I've never had this except when having a first trimester miscarriage.

Is this a very early miscarriage or does this happen in perimenopause?

My sister has described something similar to what you described as she was going thru peri/menopause. I’m still in beginning stages, missing a period once in awhile. But they are a lot more painful than when I was regular and not in peri.

[Anonymous]

I’ve had light and regular periods my whole like. Then around 47 or 48, everything went bonkers. Irregular and very heavy bleeding then a light cycle, then another period two weeks later etc. suggest checking in with your GYN to rule out fibroids or something more serious, but this very likely could be peri related. That said, you may also want to do the math if you think pregnancy (miscarriage) is remotely possible from a timeframe perspective. I have a number of friends who had surprise pregnancies at your age despite being told they had zero chance of conceiving on their own and/or had significant prior interventions to conceive.

[Anonymous]

Thanks everyone. OP here. The math from a conception point of view checks out. But then it's been checking out for years and no baby... so I didn't think it possible there might have been an embryo in there. Which has left, apparently. Or, it's as PPs said: a weirdly heavy period.

20:04, what did the GYN find? Was it fibroids?

[Anonymous]

^ and I've never missed a period before. They've been pretty regular.

[Anonymous]

This is peri 100% and take iron before you get anemic i wish someone told me that

[Anonymous]

Totally peri. I would pass things that looked like steak and were huge. I had an IUD and constant bleeding, and wasn’t even having sex.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Totally peri. I would pass things that looked like steak and were huge. I had an IUD and constant bleeding, and wasn’t even having sex.

IUDs can sometimes trigger bleeding by themselves, without peri. My mother had that side-effect.

[Anonymous]

Happened to me and my mom during peri. Awful bleeding, like hemorrhaging. I started on bcp to stop the flow. Ugh, I know it stinks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Totally peri. I would pass things that looked like steak and were huge. I had an IUD and constant bleeding, and wasn’t even having sex.

IUDs can sometimes trigger bleeding by themselves, without peri. My mother had that side-effect.

I had an IUD for 2 decades before without this issue. Even the same IUD for several years. Not the IUD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Totally peri. I would pass things that looked like steak and were huge. I had an IUD and constant bleeding, and wasn’t even having sex.

IUDs can sometimes trigger bleeding by themselves, without peri. My mother had that side-effect.

I had an IUD for 2 decades before without this issue. Even the same IUD for several years. Not the IUD.

I see. Thanks for clarifying.

[Anonymous]

I'm so sorry. You could always take a pregnancy test just to see if your hormones are elevated (you are no longer pregnant if you were, but your hormones might not know that yet)

[Anonymous]

I started having heavy periods and huge clots at about 45 with periods very regular or sometimes off by a day or two until 49 when they started to gave longer intervals. So, what you're describing sounds like how the start of peri was for me.

[Anonymous]

If you still menstruate, you can become pregnant. Consider using some form of protection if you don't want to become pregnant. The likelihood of having a viable pregnancy is slim at this age, but do you want to have miscarriages? The hormones during peri are crazy! Use some type of birth control method.