Hiya,
Im not sure if I should be in this forum or not. I haven't got cancer..not that I'm aware of.
I'm 52 (53 in January) 7yrs post menopausal (perimenopausal from 38) Suffered with menopausal symptoms all the way.. Tried an array of alternative therapies. Sometimes worked. In the main I have been a bit of a nut case with it.. We'll that's how I feel.
Last year I saw a doctor and broke down. He asked me if I was depressed. I thought maybe I was. I certainly suffer with anxiety and have had bad depression in the past. I didn't go on any anti depressants though and tried to sort it via Chinese medicine. It helped. Fast forward to the last 4/5 months and I'm all over the place again with symptoms. Hot flushes, moods erratic, ZERO libido. Been with my partner near on 4yrs, lived together a few years. Regrettably, I am not in love with him as I should be. After lots of talks we have decided that we are no longer a couple. A weight lifted but still not feeling 100%
I decided to go on hrt. Started to take it last Sunday. Monday I had tell tale period pains..afyer 7yrs this felt very strange. I went with it as maybe thought it was normal from going on the hrt. Tuesday worse, still went with it but was monitoring it. By tea time I didn't like the pains.. I walked into the doctors and explained as above to the receptionist. Also to add in.. I was going to the loo lots. 5/6 times in one night. This is quite common for me in the past too. The pain at night was keeping me awake too. I noticed my urine to be darker. I told the receptionist this too. She advised me to do a urine test and take back the Wednesday morning. This I did. Wednesday I was in agony, holding onto my steering wheel breathing the pain away which resembled labour contractions. I went home from work and took co-codamol and it knocked me out a bit. Wednesday night still in pain Thursday morning went to the doctors before work to see if the results had come back They hadn't, so I made an appointment to see the nurse after I had finished work The nurse was really good and thorough I thought. Nothing was detected in my urine, no water infection. She did another one and dipped it, still nothing. She then said could see how much pain I was in and clearly not well so typed up a letter n told me go to a+e.
Got there at 4pm. Was seen by a student doctor, very good. She got a doctor who decided to have Bloods done and another water test and again I was examined by pressing on the areas in pain. I was sent to surgical assessment unit to wait for results. Results came back fine for both.
I was reffered to a gynaecologist He was again thorough. Took lots of information. He did 2 internals with fingers and the thing that they use for a smear. He felt that was fine. All along I've thought that it was the hrt that had brought this on. I have had similar sharp pains now again over time but never like this last week. The gynaecologist thought that maybe it was the hrt and for me to stop it. He asked me to go back the hospital on Friday morning for a abdomen scan and a trans vaginal scan too, to eliminate anything like cysts.
Friday I had the scans. The trans vaginal scan was painful in some areas. The results showed no sign of polys or cysts. However there was thickening of the lining of my womb. As I'd not had a period for 7yrs the gynaecologist sad that wasn't t normal. So I had to have a biopsy. This was again quite painful and took 2 attempts.
I asked the gynea when I would get the results and she said within 2/3 weeks. I asked her straight that if anything untoward was showing up would it be before that timescale. She said she was sending it as urgent so maybe. That made me feel better as if I don't hear anything for a while I'll assume it's OK.
Of course I have looked on the dreaded google. I'm not overly worried as I feel that I'm really being looked after by the best possible medics.
So my question is: Seeing as I'm so far post menopausal is this normal or abnormal and what are others experiences with this please?
I feel that it isn't normal more due to the fact I haven't had a period for so long.. I haven't had any spotting either. Except maybe once a year or so ago if my memory serves me right. I went to the doctors but nothing came of it, no tests.
I am not looking on Google anymore and after finding this site felt the need to blurt it all out and ask for the real experienced advice. It's the waiting game that is the thing.
Thank you for reading this, I was advised to post 8n this group.
Hiya everyone,
Just wanted to give you an update on everything.
I have just had the results of my biopsy after chasing them up yesterday.. They are all FINE :-)
Yesterday I had to chase them up as I was again in more pain that usual over the last 2 days. It was far from easy as no one seemed to know of me from being on the surgical assessment unit 2 weeks ago. I was given 3 secretaries numbers to try. All of them eventually found me and told me the results were in but of course couldn't tell me over the phone. The last secretary told me she was going to find a consultant and get him/her to review them and go from there and assured me she'd ring me today.
So she did and there is a letter on its way to me and my GP.
I am shaking with relief. She read the letter out to me.
As I said I am so so relieved.. Although I am a little confused about what the letter says.
She said the consultant reported that he has looked over both the scans and the biopsy and they are completely normal. I asked her if that was right as my Trans Vaginal Scan showed not normal and a thinkening of my womb lining. She assured me all was fine from the consultants review of the tests.
I asked how thick my lining was and it is 9.4mm.
So..i am very glad of the consultants report on it...However a bit (quite a lot) confused as to why he said all the tests were completely normal when I was told by the gynaecologist who checked my TVS that it wasn't and that's why I had the biopsy.
Can any of you amazing ladies shed any light on this for me please? And is a thickness of 9.4mm OK really?
I appreciate what all you ladies are going through and you have all unbeknown to yourselves kept me going and staying pretty calm over the past 2 weeks. I have stayed away from Google and only read this forum. You are all beautiful beings for how you help others out in spite of your own issues going on.
Thank you all so much.
Mel 
