43 and genuinely cannot believe I am googling 'how much blood is too much blood' at half ten on a Tuesday night. It came out of nowhere, that's the thing. Two years ago my periods were like clockwork. Now I genuinely don't know if I'm going to get a light four-day situation or something that has me binning a pair of trousers and leaving work early. Last month I went through more pads in a week than I normally use in a month. My GP appointment is in three weeks and I keep worrying I'll walk in and not be able to describe it properly and she'll just shrug and say periods can be heavy sometimes and send me home. So I've started writing things down. Not properly, just a notes app thing. Day one, how heavy, did I flood, did I feel like I'd been hit by a bus. Partly because I know I'll forget the detail when I'm sitting in that room, and partly because I want to ask about iron levels and I feel like I need actual evidence before I do that. Does that sound mad? That I need to justify asking for a blood test? Also the tiredness is something else. I'm not sleeping badly but I wake up feeling like I've done a marathon in the night. On the worst days I can't face cooking and we've basically been living off eggs and whatever I can throw in a pan in ten minutes. Which is fine. But it's not really fine, is it. Anyone else been through this? What did you actually say at the appointment? x