Menopause Symptoms

Could I be going through menopause without any symptoms?

I haven't had my period for two months. I'm not pregnant because I've had my tubes tied for 18 years, and I took a test just to make sure and it was negative. I'm only 41 and my mother didn't start going through menopause til she was in her mid 50's. Could missed periods be a symptom of something else?

There is nothing unusual about a woman going through the menopause without symptoms. I did. Never a one. But, since your mother didn't go into menopause until her middle fifties, I would have suspected you to follow her pattern much more closely. Therefore my advice would definitely be to get yourself an appointment with a gynaecologist, let him/her get a full medical history from you, run a test or two, and make a professional determination about what's really going on.
The last words you ever want to hear a doctor say to you are....."If you had just come to me sooner, we could have dealt with this problem so much easier"
If there is something amiss, you'll have jumped right on it; and if the doctor d etermines that you are simply going into early menopause, and nothing else appears to be wrong, well, then you get the peace of mind and can get on with the next phase of your life.

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