Ladies, I'm having a really horrible time with my period this month.
It started last Friday ( it was really Thursday but there was so little I'm not counting it). All day Friday it was fairly light and brown. That hasn't happened to me in years. So the first bit of red bleeding I had was on Saturday. It's been getting heavier since then and the cramps / pains are very bad as well.
Today is day 4 of red bleeding and I still have cramps and heavy bleeding. I took a shower a while ago and while I was washing a largish clot came out. Without sounding disgusting, it kind of landed on my hand. I thought it might break up in my hand but it didn't. It was quite solid (not hard but not soft where it would start falling apart a bit). Is this what clots feel like? It just freaked me out when I felt it because I don't think I've ever felt a clot before.
Between the brown stuff, the clot, the cramps and the heavy bleeding I'm withered. I'm 44 so I know it's possible I might be in perimenopause. Are all these normal symptoms of that?