Nearly 53, definitely menopausal...or pregnant???

[Cassavaflower]

I know it doesn't sound possible but I'm being sick, can't stand the smell of my husband, have terrible headaches and am craving rice. I never eat rice! Also I can't bear tea and I normally drink gallons of it!
It must be a virus, right? No-one my age could possibly be preggers?

No idea what HRH means either.

Did you do the test op???

@PrioritiseCalm You can read the OP updates

If only words actually failed the people who go out of their way to be mean.

Ignore the spiteful and vitriolic responses, OP.

Hope you’re ok this morning.

How is coming onto a thread where a woman who is NOT pregnant but slightly upset because for a moment she thought she could have been and then kicking her while shes dealing with the grief of that posability being at an end saying shes selfish and going to die soon helping anything?

Its an unnesacerrily cunty thing to do and your 'opinion' wasnt asked for, isnt relivant and doesnt matter and was nothing more than cruel to express... try working on being a better person in future.

It's really very odd that you're getting so worked up about this hypothetical situation, so much so that you felt the need to USE CAPITALS. Are you alright?

I'm nearly 39 and going through IVF. Cope.

Did you mean to quote me? Because I didn’t make any comment like that.

Trust me, it's not odd for them.
Every post this particular user makes is in a similar vein.

I've had some things going on in peri. Hightened sense of smell temporarily, really random times. Weird tastes such as mint toothpaste tasting flowery

I’m peri menopausal and get those symptoms regularly
I’m 46

So sorry you didn’t get the result you were hoping for. Good luck at the drs!

No, you're being tactically ignorant.

You're projecting your dad's VERY early death onto others and pretending it's the norm. It's not.

Your dad died over twenty years earlier than the UK average.

Having had parents of a normal age, I can tell you it's shit too. My parents were emotionally immature and I was subjected to a horrible, volatile upbringing.

If your parents loved you dearly, you had it better than me, disproving your idea that "it was shit". In fact, you come across eminently ungrateful for having had loving parents and then trashing the upbringing they gave you. You were lucky. VERY lucky.

Plus, your dad died at what? 69/70? That's a pretty early death by current standards. And if he couldn't cope with a young child only in his 50s, it sounds like he wasn't very fit, as other older parents do just fine.

Wow just wow the negative comments on here is discusting I had three kids in my 20s and 30 fell pregnant at 40 lost that one and then had my last at 42 his now 2 and his the best thing that happened to us keeps us fit happy and on our toes yes it can be hard work and yes sometimes i do think about age but i thought that when i had my baby at 30 unfortunately things happen at all ages young middle aged or older age there is no gaureentees in life I'm sorry to the op who sadly didn't get the result in the end x

It never ceases to amaze me how posters can be horrible to others that don’t know on the internet. About situations that don’t impact their lives at all. It’s really weird.

It doesn’t matter how old you are, all that matters is that you love your baby and can provide a nice life for them.

Sorry about disappointment @Cassavaflower .

Half the time I see you on here you're being abusive. The other half you're banging on about your right to your opinion.

And you know what they say about opinions.

Me too! I'm definitely in the menopause (I'm 54) but often have morning nausea😒

I was 17, my mum was 50. I had much older siblings.
On a Saturday, Mum sat me down and said very nervously that she thought she was pregnant. She was sooo embarrassed. She was worried about what her co-workers and friends would say about her being so foolish, getting pregnant at her age.
It turned out to be menopause. The only person disappointed was me.

Ha! This was me exactly two weeks ago! Same age and everything! Did a test and got a false positive! Two blood tests and three more urine tests later got a definite negative but it seriously threw us! We were terrified at becoming parents again at this late stage but also kind of sad it was a negative in the end. Go test! Good luck

I would absolutely love to know how many of those seeming surprise ‘geriatric’ pregnancies were in fact a middle-aged mother covering for an unmarried, pregnant teenage child. I suspect it was very common. We learnt very recently that there is one in our family, but the ‘child’ concerned only told us once all of the other parties had died and she was well into her eighties.

@BretonBlue that’s interesting, it is fascinating once you start researching (well I think so anyway!)
In my tree at least these weren’t surprise pregnancies they were pretty much the norm. Still, there may have been a few that weren’t what they seemed, especially the older ones. Although there was one in my family who had three boys in her late teens to a much older husband, then he died and when all the boys were grown she remarried a younger man and had a child at 47. So she managed to horrify everyone by eloping with a man decades older than her (and in some way related!) then horrify them again by marrying someone decades younger.

Thinking about it @BretonBlue I think it wasn’t that rare for a younger unmarried girl to be ‘sent away’ on some pretext for a few months, shortly before her mother or aunt or older sibling had a new child. I don’t blame them.

I wish you all the luck possible. My DIL was 37 when she had our grandchild after extensive ivf.

@MariesKnickKnacks - I'm sorry if you had a hard childhood. Never once did I complain or tell my parents about the bullying I received for having older parents. I respected and loved them.

As for my dad not being able to cope with a young child. He was born in 1914, he was 54 when I was born - people in the 1960's aged more than we do now, probably due to poverty, lack of access to healthcare/vaccinations etc in childhood. He served in WW2 and suffered what would now be recognised as PTSD due to driving repeatedly across a minefield to help rescue stranded soldiers. Due to injuries received he later lost his left leg and his livelihood as a driver. So, yeah, he did struggle a bit. I'm immensely proud of his service and wear his MiD oak leaf emblem regularly.

Still sucked though having older parents.

Why would anybody want Boris Johnson - a proven serial liar and adulterer with a concern for others rivalled only by a rock - to be Prime Minister again?
But they do. We're all different.