So who would knows about perimenopause and menopause then .. and how come we aren't taught / don't discuss in advance

[Twiglett]

OK I'm 40 so possibly in reach of the perimenopause which I understand can start 10 years before the menopause

I've had a bug that is also giving me hot sweats, I've also been raging more than normal

I've ordered a book that has been recommended to me but I know nothing

(much as I knew nothing about my cycle 'til I read Toni Weschler's book)

Right must go, depressing myself now! Will think lovely thoughs of Sharon Stone and the like whilst I get ready trying to avoid the mirrors.

Have a lovely time Wags, I should go and finish tidying up I think (puddings all made, dh is doing the rest, hurrah).

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Sorry noddy? Did you moan?

You alright, noddy?

I don't want to be a shrunken dried up old granny I am 42 and no signs yet but bloody hell I didn't know it shrank!Where does it go

I can't remember when I started. Might ask my mum, but don't know whether she'd remember.

I can't use that one as any kind of a barometer.. I am a stroppy bitch daily and always have been to best of my knowledge!

So many of us posting on this thread are of similar ages to people looking to have their first baby, you realise!! And LOADS of women in late thirties still TTC..

Me - average? Surely not. I remember the occasion, but not how old I was.

ok well i'm 50 and i havent read the link as i gather from all your comments you young people that it would all be a bit pointless

i am already diuagnosed mad so i doubt it could get a lot worse

i have had appalling periods for my entire life tho they did get even worse about 20 years ago and became basolutely fucking appalling

i do seem to have missed my last period..i am either pregnant or menopausal..i would guess either could be possible but the latter would seem more likely

and quite possibly less weird and preferable lol

i did think of starting an am i pregnant thread recently but i am just keeping my fingers crossed instead

i have lost loads of weight but i was actually trying to lose 4 stone so i don't think losing nearly 5 counts particularly as a symptom

i actually feel quite chipper

and i have just had my romantic weekend away with a young man and still seemed to be functioning ok tho i did fall asleep in the cionema this pm due to overtiredness

you have all put me off reading about the menopause so i still know nothing and have absolutely no fucking idea what hrt does or prevents or cures

thank you for your calming words, santa.

The rest of you, stop wittering. One of the hallmarks, that is

calming babe

i do my best

You know - I've been thinking. I can't be peri menopausal. I'm not even a grown-up yet! I refuse to let it happen.

it seems to me that you can always be labelled as something

Can I ask something a little er--- delicate here? Is a spongy fanny a menopausal symptom? I can't find it on that list.

Sorry

Haven't seen it on the list either - rather the opposite. Not sure it's a good idea to google it though...

what is a songey fanjo fhs

LOL exactly, haven't bothered to google

Every time I click on that "34 signs of the menopause" link on Power Surge my conection goes (that's prob a perimenopause thing, isn't it?) But I am very alarmed at my complete inability, in the last few years to get the right words for things. I say the word I see, not the word I want. "put your computer on", "what do you want to eat for your computer"

Oh no, I've got to worry about a spongey fanny too?

Happy New Year everyone