To be really annoyed with Mother Nature

[Birra]

For giving me periods at age 10?!
I need those healthy eggs now, at age 44, not age 10.
FFS, I didn't even have sex for another 8 years
Why?
I'm raging, probably because I now need some HRT, which I wouldn't need yet, if you had given me periods at a reasonable age

Yabu about raging over something you had no control over.

There are so many aspects of being a woman that piss me right off. Yanbu at all!!!

YANBU - there are so many aspects of biology/ nature that I want to make a written complaint about, once I find out Mother Nature's address!

YANBU, Mother Nature is the enemy.

Yanbu!

YANBU to rage, our bodies cause us great consternation. Although I'm not sure there is a causal link between age of menarche and age of menopause.

I thought it was an inverse relationship - the earlier you start periods, the older, statistically speaking, you will be at menopause. Which is bloody unfair, but no help to the OP.

It is a very stupid system and I often rage at it. But I suppose the early periods evolved at a time when the chances of living to 30 or even 25 were very small so kids had to get on and have the next generation before they died. 10 is very early, I feel for you. I was almost 12 and that was plenty early enough.

I'm suffering from period pain a good week before it's due at the moment. Then will come the days of being irritable, clumsy and angry before the main show arrives. And I know I have things much easier than some poor women. Very badly 'designed'.

Apparently other primates don't bleed. The uterine lining is just absorbed. Why couldn't we have that? I can't see any evolutionary advantage in having blood pouring out of you for a week a month. The opposite if anything. I mean, if you go back to prehistoric peoples, there were large predators like sabre tooth tigers, which I imagine would be able to smell blood from miles away. Maybe that's the origin of menstruating women being put in a hut some distance from the main settlement in some traditional tribes. I don't know, just musing.

Whatever though, I agree OP it's bloody unfair and very horrible. I like to tell DH how bad it is so he can feel appropriately grateful he is male and I get the correct amount of sympathy. He also gets a lot of ' men wouldn't put up with this ' mumblings. Chocolate is good OP. Sending sympathy, and or as is your wont.

No specialist has ever been able to tell me that the reason for my unusable eggs is because I started my periods early.
But it makes sense.
But anyway, I still had 8 years of unused eggs which I could have done with over the last couple of years.

YANBU - at all.

Mother Nature is a cruel sadist witch.

I didnt know that about other primates!

Sorry you are going through this OP...BUT...I didn't start puberty, have periods/boobs till 16/17 and I still started the menopause at 48 ish...I thought I'd get a later menopause because of this but no.....

I'm not actually saying that if you start periods early you start menopause early, I don't know that, I'm just sad at the wasted eggs.

it does seem cruel that we are at our most fertile when we are least able to be a good parent, and best able to provide a child with a secure and loving home just as our fertility is dropping off a cliff :(

I started my period at 8 years old, didn;t even know what they were.

Starting periods at that age is a relatively recent thing in evolutionary history. I read a fascinating book about it years ago, by the doctor who invented the pill.
In Pre-industrial ages, the onset on mensus was in late teens, but that age came down as the amount of protein in our diets went up.

The way it used to work was that periods started later and then women would be pregnant or breastfeeding pretty near constantly after that, so not ovulating (he also said that with lower protein diets, periods definitely stop while bfing).
This meant the egg stash we were born with was more than ample to get us through to menopause, because we weren't designed to burn though them as quickly as we do now.

Our lifestyles have changed, but our bodies haven't evolved to match

Sparechange, very interesting and that makes sense.

Although I thought that menstruation (or lack of) was more closely linked to body fat levels then lack of protein?
I guess body fat would have also been lower, certainly we get much more hormone exposure in modern times when we spend greater parts of our lives menstruating