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Hi, Everyone! Just discovered this place. Looking forward to chatting and supporting other members. I have had mental illness for most of my life and am on disability because of it. Between emotional and physical pain (not to mention "horrormones"), I have quite the challenge of navigating through life. I have figured out a lot, however, through the help of my psychiatrist, my therapist, and my medications. I feel I take too many medications, however and would like to talk about that, as well as other issues. I am an artist working in all kinds of media, and when I am working I am in my happy place. Art and crafting has literally saved my life. Looking forward to meeting you!

Hey guys, not too concerned, (all right, maybe a little). My wife is 44 and in the throws of perimenopause. We have crappy OBGYNs around here who are mostly older men who have no patience or grace in helping her understand anything about what she is going through. They seem to provide excellent prenatal care, but when it comes to women trying to navigate the throes of menopause, they could care less. She is reluctant to look things up online, and just muddles through it. I am reluctant to look things up online because all roads lead to cancer and certain death. ;-) So my question is, she has SUPER irregular periods, which she understands is to be expected. But the other issue she has, which I can tell makes her a little nervous, is sometime she will have her period, then it will seem to stop, and two days later she will spot or bleed, and that might last a couple of days, then stop for a day. She has had a CT scan, which said she had an ovarian cyst, but nothing else showed. My question is, are all rules off for this spotting? I mean, she is not overly concerned, but she is just looking for experience, and I thought I would ask people who have been through it the only place I know where I can ask health questions and people will understand without it leading me down a dark road too. When is spotting to be looked into more seriously? Is it normal in peri to spot for a week after when your period should be done? Are rules simply no longer applicable to spotting etc when going through peri? She is so eager to just be done with it all, but was told by her last OB that peri can last even as long as 10 years. She was not super excited to hear that.