I am 53 and started a period again without having any bleeding for 1 year and 5 months. I had breast tenderness and estrogen type symptoms like I was ovulating the last two weeks of July. Last Sunday (August 9) I started a period. I had it for 5 days and it was a moderate to light flow with red blood and some clots. It was just like when I used to have periods. Now it is ending
and my breast tenderness is gone and there is a little just residual spotting (ending) of the period. I am concerned since it was over a year since the last time I bleed--and a year previously I had had three mini-periods (Jan,Feb, March 0. I went to my doctor last year because I had some spotting (mini periods) after PMS symptoms. I had an endometrial biopsy in April 2008 and it came out all clear. This time when I saw my doctor I had an ultrasound the day after the bleeding started and it looked like all signs were a period. One ovary showed signs of poly cysts (maybe like I had just ovulated again?). The endometrium was 10mm on Day 2-3 of the period, I do have three small fibroids (that I knew I had from early 2000) and a possible polyp that was evident on this new ultrasound. Should I undergo another endometrial biopsy, or should I allow the doctor to do a D&C for diagnostic purposes. I am a healthy, non-smoking, vegetarian, and very physically fit. Thank you for your advice.