A woman thought she had cervical cancer after being rushed to hospital when she started bleeding heavily - but discovered it was a rare symptom of the menopause. <br /><br />Gigi Gerencser, 58, was going into her third year of perimenopause - when the ovaries gradually stop working - when she woke up in bed and thought she was "haemorrhaging". <br /><br />Her periods had mostly stopped, but she woke one morning to find her sheets "drenched in blood" and she felt extremely weak. <br /><br />She was rushed to hospital - but after her biopsies came back clear, she was told this was a rare symptom of the menopause and likely "one last hurrah" period. <br /><br />Gigi, who owns skincare business Halo & Horns Skin, from Sechelt, Canada, said: “I can’t even explain - it was so terrifying - I woke up to find blood gushing out of me. <br /><br />“I’d had a total of three periods in the three years before that - but it was nothing like this. I was extremely weak.<br /><br />“I thought I was haemorrhaging from something that had burst inside me - or I was convinced I had cervical cancer.<br /><br />"A couple of weeks after I went to hospital, my biopsy results came back clear. My gynaecologist told me it was a unique symptom of the menopause.<br /><br />"I thought I was going crazy."
