"Menopause na ba ako?" Find your likely stage

• Late reproductive: periods still regular, but you may notice subtle changes in flow or length. Some symptoms can start here.
• Early perimenopause: cycles become less predictable. A common marker is cycle length that keeps varying by 7 days or more from one cycle to the next.
• Late perimenopause: you start skipping periods, with gaps of 60 days or more. Hot flashes and sleep problems are often strongest around here.
• Menopause: the single point 12 months after your last period (UP Manila).
• Postmenopause: every year after that.

The cycle markers above follow the STRAW+10 framework published by Harlow and colleagues in 2012 (STRAW+10), which puts the late stage, with gaps of 60 days or more, at about 1 to 3 years on average. Cleveland Clinic gives about 4 years as the average length of perimenopause, and up to about 8 (Cleveland Clinic).

You answer:

1. Your age.
2. The date your last period started (or that it has been more than a year).
3. How your cycles have changed: still regular, varying by a week or more, skipping periods.
4. Whether you have common symptoms such as hot flashes, night sweats or sleep changes.
5. Whether anything makes periods hard to read: hysterectomy, hormonal contraception, HRT, or a hormonal IUD.

The tool places you on a timeline graphic with your likely stage highlighted, explains what that stage usually means and links to what helps. If you had a hysterectomy or use hormones, it says that your periods cannot be used to tell your stage and suggests talking to a doctor instead.

Your result is the stage your period pattern most closely matches. It is not a lab result, and it can change: many women move back and forth between "regular" and "irregular" for a while.

Blood tests do not usually settle it either. Hormone levels like FSH swing a lot in perimenopause, and NICE NG23 advises diagnosing perimenopause and menopause without lab tests in otherwise healthy women over 45 with typical symptoms (NICE NG23 and QS143). See the FSH test page for when testing does make sense.

Age-based safety notes the tool always shows:

• Under 45 with symptoms or period changes: talk to a doctor. Menopause before 45 is called early menopause.
• Under 40 with missed periods: see a doctor. This could be premature ovarian insufficiency (POI), which matters for bone and heart health. Try the early menopause check.
• Any bleeding after 12 months with no period: see a doctor soon. Read bleeding after menopause.

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