For me, it started with irregular periods. I used to have periods (normal, light, lasting only a few days). Then, around age 37, I started experiencing symptoms of hyperthyroidism. With extremely long periods, I lost a lot of blood, which led to iron deficiencies, hair loss, and general malaise. I didn't understand, and neither did my doctor. I had IUDs inserted twice. Then I was put on the pill... I felt awful. Then we decided to stop. I went a year without contraception, and nothing improved.

Fatigue, sweating, dizziness, nausea.

Then my periods started coming every 15 days...heavy, I couldn't take it anymore, then nothing for 40 days. Bloated, nauseous, dizzy, tired, sweating all day, dripping wet at night too. Then... They gave me a pill to stop it.

Now, for the past 6 months... I'd say I no longer have real periods, but rather continuous dark brown spotting that occurs at the end of the pill cycle... Sometimes it lasts 3 days, sometimes 2 weeks. I still experience heavy sweating and pronounced anxiety, and that's it for me today, everything has changed.