It is horrible when this happens, and almost as bad when you see it happen to someone else.

One day in yoga, the instructor (who was unfortunately wearing light tan yoga pants that day, not black, d'oh!) started bleeding. I am sure that many people noticed it because of the positions she was in. I was towards the back and didn't know what to do. Finally, as she went around correcting people's posture, the gal one row in front of me had a chance to whisper to her "you're bleeding". She was like "I am?!" I guess she didn't even feel it. Amazingly, she continued teaching, and the bleeding never got any worse; it was about 1" around. She was awfully brave to continue on...especially with men in the class too. I'd have been SO outta there!

Helene, I have night-time hot flashes too. Fans and sleeping with the A/C turned down some do help. I have also found that black cohosh and soy help me. When I was taking both of them, I had no flashes for a couple of months. Then I ran out of the soy (as I would only take the non-gmo type) and gradually started having a few flashes again. I'm going to get some more non-gmo. Still much prefer them to the hassle and worries of a period as mine was heavy for most of my life and really made life complicated at times!