Hello, thank you Sarah
xx
Okay, so, I've toyed with the idea that I am entering menopause early. I have no medical or past history to go off as both my mother and grandmother had full hysterectomys at 31.
But........... I've always had issues with my plumbing from the age of 17. My 'bits' didn't seem to work like everyone else's did. I felt ill weeks before I came on, I've suffered miscarriages, and the worst time of my adult life, my DH and I lost triplets at 16+5 weeks gestation.
I have always blamed myself for them dying inside me, like my plumbing wasn't up to scratch. Although I had a DD at the age of 23, no complications etc.....
So, to present day, Nemo (some of you will have heard me chatting about him and being the uber proud mummy that I am on here already) will be three in May, I'll be 37 tomorrow.
In the last six months, my periods have gotten longer apart, heavier when they do arrive and the symptoms in between, harder to put up with.
Night sweats.
Day sweats.
Memory loss - milk in the cupboard, iron in the fridge, that sort of thing.
Mood swings high enough to reach the moon and back again.
Sobbing to hysterical laughter.
Sex drive through the roof to I'd rather knit Shreddies with the Nanas.
Food cravings, sweet, sour and odd.
Weight gain, weight loss, constipation like I've never known and the reverse of that too.
Breakouts, flushed skin.
I'm sure that there's more but I can't remember what.
Help.
My last period was December 7th. It was heavy (flooding) and so very painful that it would make me loose my breath at times.
So far, in January, nothing. Nada. Nowt has appeared.
I know that 'worrying' about it makes it worse but I'd like to get some sort of hint as to when it might show. 10 days since it was 'due'. I was always 28/30 day cycle.
Not any more.
Any wise words for me? A cuppa and a hug or a partner in crime in the same position as me?