For the past 4 months my period has been very light. It is dark like old blood and crumbly, not like the flowing bright red stuff I usually have. Usually I have a heavyish period for a few days and then it tapers off for the last few days. It has been consistent since I started when I was 14 (I’m 25 now). I even did a pregnancy test last month because I read blood like that could be implantation bleeding, it was negative, it was unlikely anyway as I have a copper IUD.
I’m also experiencing vaginal dryness (I can get wet but it takes a while, and isn’t as much as it was before. I also have low libido when in the past I’ve always had a high one. I will have sex if my boyfriend initiates it, but otherwise I just don’t feel horny, and I don’t masturbate when he’s not there, like I used to.
Everything I’ve found on google suggests premature menopause. None of the other explanations fit me, I don’t have an eating disorder, I’m fit but not an athlete, I don’t take hormonal birth control and I’m not breastfeeding. My mum had the menopause at a normal age in her 50s, and I presume my grandmother did. But the internet says 60% of cases are idiopathic anyway, 1/1000 women under 30 have this condition and I feel like it would be just my luck to have it. One of the symptoms is even weak bones and I broke a bone in my pelvis a few months ago that the doctor said is rare in young people (however he commented saying the bone density looked fine on the xrays.)
I also have discomfort in my lower abdomen and vulva most of the time, my physiotherapist also told me to ask for a blood test from my doctor as I have sore joints all over my body. I’ve also been having digestive issues over a similar time frame.
I’ve dreamed my whole life of having children and I’m so so anxious about these symptoms, I can’t stop crying thinking I can’t have children and my boyfriend will leave me as he wants them too. I feel so depressed.
I had a kind of stressful time around 4 months ago as I had exams, however I’ve been through much more stressful events in my life such as relatives passing away and that never affected my cycle. Plus I’ve finished studying now and it hasn’t gone back to normal.
I will go to the doctor tomorrow but I can’t think of any other cause 
feel so depressed and hopeless
i know you posted this a while ago but i have premature ovarian failure also know as early menopause. I am 29 . I was diagnosed at 24 because my period kept changing and getting further apart. I was diagnosed by several blood tests and a internal ultrasound.
At first I sad i can’t have children but honestly i now hardly think about it as release there is so many ways to have children and biologically ones are not be all and end all.
The symptoms i know once i actually started having them at 27 was hot flushes and needing to pee all the time.
it can be hard finding out but it so much better in the long run to know. Hope this helps