Never ending period

Women's health
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Hi, I am 48 and have had just about every perimenopause symptoms for the last four years on and off. My cycle has got shorter to usually about every 23 days and my periods lighter. However this current period has been different, I usually have a heavy day and then a couple of light days and it stops. This time it has now been light for 8 days. It is as if it just can’t bleed properly and so keeps going. There is no sign of it stopping, can this be normal?

Thanks

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Dear Sally

This happened to me its like it never really starts and just keeps spotting a little bit and sometimes stopped for a day and started up again. I got things checked and all was OK and put it down to peri, I have read alot of women get this too x

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I have found as you go through peri and get nearer to menopause yours periods change all the time. Mine went to every 3 weeks like yours.. with one heavy day ..pretty much the same, then they stopped out of the blue for 4 months .. i thought that was it.. then out of the blue and to the day if i had been having my periods they started again. only slight flow... then 10 days later i had another period which was normal.. then i missed again... now its hit or miss.. if i get a period or i miss.. sometimes its so heavy i dare not move for the flooding.. then i get one thats is nothing more than spotting.. there is no longer any rhythm of any kind as the hormone levels fluctuate . 

Also like you my symptoms have been going on for over 4 years. From what i have read this is the stage before full menopause. Things go crazy as you no longer have enough hormones to regulate things. Without progesterone your body can no longer control how much you bleed and for how long.  

I also found that you can continue to have spotting until you ovulate ...on and off so thats about 14 days from the start of your period, but again this is not every time. Stress etc seem to make it worse.

Is this normal?.. i think at this stage normal has gone out the window rolleyes its different for everyone.. takes a while to get used to but you do adjust and stop worrying.