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Not yet menopausal at 58 and 5 months
Women's Health | Last Active: Jun 22, 2022 | Replies (10)Comment receiving replies
Hello @stephmgfinca and welcome to Connect.
I appreciate you sharing your concern about menopause. Since you have shared that you have been diagnosed with Hashimoto's thyroiditis, I'm assuming that you probably have an endocrinologist that you consult with? Has he or she commented on this or ran any tests? Has any doctor done a blood test to check on your hormone levels?
I found an article On the health line website about the causes of late menopause. Here is the link,https://www.healthline.com/health/menopause/late-onset. As I glanced at the article I did read that thyroid problems can cause either early or late menopause.
Are your thyroid levels well controlled now?
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Hi (again) Teresa,
Sorry, I should have read the link BEFORE my first reply!
I have never had hot flashes or mood swings or anything but the irregular periods that started at 57 and really terrible insomnia.
Reading through all the possible causes of this late onset, the only thing left is abnormally high estrogen levels. Since I have a family history of breast cancer, and didn't have kids, this needs to be taken seriously.
I wonder why my doctors were so dismissive of my concerns (?)
Anyway, again, thanks very much, as now I am going to get a little pushy in terms of having them run labs for me.
XO
Stephanie
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Hi Teresa,
Thanks so much for the welcome!
Yes, I do have an endocrinologist and he's well aware that at 58 I am still having periods. The Hashimoto's is well controlled.
My doctor is very good and I trust him on ENDOCRINOLOGICAL issues. Aside from being Columbia and Stanford educated, he really thinks about what a patient says, really listens.
I have explicitly asked him about this and he has never said anything about the Hashimoto's playing a role in and doesn't seem concerned. He seems to think it's genetics.
However, I have never said "Could this be the Hashimoto's?"
I have said "still getting my period at 58". Next visit if this is still an issue, I'm going to ask him specifically if it could be the Hashimoto's.
Of course, he's not a OB/GYN, but I've mentioned it to 3 (we moved, 1 OB/GYN moved and my current OB/GYN) and none of them seem concerned either.
But, *I* am a bit concerned.
I wouldn't be able to take oral contraceptives so hopefully last month was the LAST month! It *was* 7 months since the period before that (at 57, my periods became irregular and I thought I was done with all of that last July).
Thanks again for reading my post, for the welcome and for taking the time to look this up! I will look at the link that you sent me.
XO
Stephanie
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