to whine and moan about my hot flushes?

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Because I have been alternately whining and laughing, really. And it's occurred to me that I might in fact be acting like the sort of person of whom my mother always says 'The only trouble with her is, when you ask her how she is she tells you...'

That why I avoid hrt too. My sister is dying following breast cancer.

I may or may not have bought all the sage tablets in my local Boots.
I will, however chase them down with some wine.
I'm not taking this laying down!

Ooh - just realised that I haven't had a flush for a few days now. Hurrah!

During the recent spell of hot weather there where times when I didn't know if I was just hot, or hot flushing.

Agree - more wine is the way forward - but it has caused me to almost double in size in the last 12 months.

Oh Pag - so sorry to read that.

Oh and, SGB, meno/peri is murder on the joints.
One of the classic symptoms.

Bear, how?
Just how?

Is that why I can hardly walk?

bear, could be.
Or you could just have uncomfortable shoes on.
Hard to say.

How what? The weight? It's all the sugar I presume. I have posted before about sitting in my car one day and I could feel all the cells in my back and my thighs sort of zinging as they expanded. I now have back fat . Did you watch 56UP? There was one lady who had looked OK in 49UP and by 56 she had done that expanding round the middle thing - tis too depressing, and makes me want to eat a Welsh cake with butter and jam.

I've got strangely fat too. All round my middle where it never used to be.

NinaHeart, wow. Nine years. I am v v lucky mine only lasted for 2 yrs or so. I don't really know because my menopause was so early (4 years ago at age 38) it never even crossed my mind that that was what was going on. I jusst thought my pajamas were too warm or something. Ha!

Mind you, I am on HRT for osteoperosis risk. No history of breast cancer in my family, so my GP considered it better that way.

No periods is BLISS.

Yy Exit. The desire to just think 'fuck it' and eat cake is becoming overwhelming.

Thanks too.

Bugger, I have back fat.
Won't shift.
Managed to get it off my arse with with hours of exercise, and it seem to have taken residence higher up.
No, the flushes?

Sorry to hear about your sister Pag x.

Its the roll of fat under my bra at the front that gets me. Its like Im growing extra boobs.

Thanks coco.

The weight piling on is a nightmare. I have got a grip of it now but having been the same weight for bloody decades I just put on a stone and a half in about three months.
At one point I had about three things in my wardrobe that fitted me.

Have you managed to lose weight Pag? I have sort of given up as I never see any results.

Yeah. I am back down near pre-blow out weight. Low carb, less wine and a personal trainer twice a week.
I did it mostly because my back was fucked and being bigger was making it worse. The training is a lot of strength building to stop me pulling my back so often iyswim.
But it is twice as hard to get results twice as slowly.
The cake option feels quite attractive a lot of the time tbh

I was already overweight before the menopause hit, so now it seems like Everest to scale.

Well done for your determination.

I went shopping for a new bra and it seems I went I size up.
Not a cup size, I must add.

I've been getting such bad night sweats I might have to think about washing my sheets occasionally .

Quote, I'm in awe, you're a genius

thank you,

I love a good menopause thread. All the bright young things on here (and elsewhere) think it will never happen to them.... HA!

It is a cruel, cruel trick of nature that gives you the freedom from periods with one hand and robs you of the figure to wear white pants on the other.

Oh the weight-HELP.

Atm I take the dog out three times a day, bike to the swimming pool, swim 20 lengths(50m pool)-& I have put on!!!!