Only 5%10%% of TS girls undergo spontaneous puberty and have menses.
The analogy with menopause is false, he said, because men do not menstruate -- they "don't have menses to pause".
Postmenopausal status was assessed via self-report in a computer-aided personal interview (CAPI) based on the items "Have you had menses within the last 12 months?", "Do you still have regular menstruation?", and "At present, are you pregnant?".
It also shows that the Turkish women interviewed in our study see the regular bleeding as unclean in line with the study showing that 83.42% women were happy about the cessation of menses and they did not wish to have menses again [ 28].
The menopausal status was also attributed when the hormonal cycle arrest was diagnosed by the physician or was automatically attributed to all women of 50 years old or older who had not confirmed that they still had menses at the time of the interview.
Concerning menopausal status we used the following definitions: perimenopausal women having irregular menses, less than 12 menses during the last 12 months and postmenopausal: no more menses in the last 12 months.
Menstrual data were coded as amenorrhoea when there was no menstrual bleeding in the preceding 6 months, as transient amenorrhoea when there was return of menses after a period of amenorrhoea, or as having ongoing menses throughout treatment up till the time of analysis.
Premenopausal patients were defined as those having current menses, or estradiol levels greater than 20 pg ml−1 and follicle-stimulating hormone levels <15 pg ml−1.
Not having her menses (amenorrhea).
Fey writes of her own menses, "I had noticed something was weird earlier in the day, but I knew from the commercials that one's menstrual period was a blue liquid you poured like laundry detergent into maxi pads to test their absorbency".
31 were amenorrhoeic by 1 year and remained so, eight showed continuing menses at 1 year, and 3 were amenorrhoeic at 1 year but had recovered menses by 3 years (Table 1).
