Re: Postmenopausal bleeding.
Originally Posted by
RedBanana
Hi everyone.
Does anybody have any experience with post menopausal bleeding? Any positive stories?
My 53 year old Mum has not had a period for 18 months. She has had bleeding for 12 days, it has now stopped. She went to her GP who has taken bloods and referred her urgently to gynae and for an ultrasound and the ‘C’ word was mentioned. I have such bad health anxiety and so as you can imagine this news has my mind spiralling and I have a pit of doom inside. I can’t think about anything else.
Your mum is bang on the average age for starting the menopause (51). I was premature with mine but I also had two years of no periods then a bleed. I was fast-tracked and seen within a week but there was no cancer.
My mother was 65 when she had a bleed, and she did have cancer, but she also had other symptoms. Her tumour was on her ovary and she had a Hysterectomy and was cancer free when she died 7 years later of something else entirely.
So, two stories - one cancer, one not - both happy endings.
The C word was mentioned because that's what they are looking to rule out with a post-meno bleed, but it's worst case scenario* and given your mother's age, and the fact that she's just started the menopause, I'd imagine that her issue is like mine was - just one of those things while the body is adjusting to it's new 'normal'.
* cancer doesn't equal death, as I have shown with my mother..
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