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Originally posted by Cinds:

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Originally posted by Joods:
I've just turned 50 and my GP tells me my menopause has been and gone due to having to have a hysterectomy at 36. Thing is, apart from a few tingly hot flushes about 10 years ago, I don't remember having any other symptoms! It really surprised me as all the women on both sides of my family had some awful experiences when going through theirs.

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Originally posted by Soozy woo:
I'm 52 .......can live with the hot flushes ...........yes I'm moody but ............the skin probs are doing my nut in!!!!!! Always had a good skin ....never really suffered teenage spots or anythinh but MY GOD .......it's payback now!

I'm 37, 38 in august, my skin is awful, I rarely sleep without aids, when I do sleep I wake up lord knows how many times sweating. Everything annoys me. According to statistics I should not get my menopause until I am in my 50's which is when my mother her mother and her mother before her got it. But then I read another blarf that said, you can go through menopausal symptoms for up to 10 years before it actually happens.


Can I opt out now?

Have you tried a fan for the night? I have Peripheral neuropathy and I have to have a fan trained on my feet and legs all day and night otherwise I wouldn't be able to sleep for the pain and burning. But the fan has the dual purpose of keeping me from perspiring during sleep. The fan by my bed is on all night long.

Its not that they get too hot, I just have horrendous night sweats, whole body. I have to change my bedding everyday.

If I didn't have the fan on all night because of my PN, I too would be soaked in sweat all night but the fan stops that from happening. It's worth a try and they're very cheap now. My husband came home with two new ones for me last week and they only cost around £7.50 each. It's the first time I have needed replacement fans for well over 6 years. The old ones still work but they are a bit noisy and rattley now.

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Originally posted by Mazzystar:
Peri menopause can start anytime from mid 30s my doc informs me.
Only symptom I've had this far is missed periods.(hallelujah!)I've always slept with my feet out the bed and window open unless its subzero regardless of my age.Skins not too bad.Tits have given into gravity,middle aged spread/beer belly now evident but muscle tone elsewhere's pretty good

I am worried cos someone told me that if your mum had a hard time.. then you probably will.

My mother seems to have had a twenty year menopause... mental woman at times. And the hot sweats were unbeleivable... she would be fine one minutes... and literally soaking wet the next (reckoned her and my dad would have to change the bedding a couple of times a night cos of her night sweats!)

She eventually agreed to go on HRT... (the horse wee one!)... which settled things down. But then she would secretly come off it without telling anyone... go completely pyscho bitch mental at someone (usually me)... and then phone a week later and say... 'whoops sorry... I'd stopped taking the HRT didn't think I needed it anymore!"

I don't want to be THAT woman!

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I am off to bed to try to get some sleep now. Mr Cinds wants to snuggle.

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Originally posted by Cinds:

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Originally posted by *BB*:

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Originally posted by Cinds:

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Originally posted by Soozy woo:
I'm 52 .......can live with the hot flushes ...........yes I'm moody but ............the skin probs are doing my nut in!!!!!! Always had a good skin ....never really suffered teenage spots or anythinh but MY GOD .......it's payback now!

I'm 37, 38 in august, my skin is awful, I rarely sleep without aids, when I do sleep I wake up lord knows how many times sweating. Everything annoys me. According to statistics I should not get my menopause until I am in my 50's which is when my mother her mother and her mother before her got it. But then I read another blarf that said, you can go through menopausal symptoms for up to 10 years before it actually happens.


Can I opt out now?

Have you tried a fan for the night? I have Peripheral neuropathy and I have to have a fan trained on my feet and legs all day and night otherwise I wouldn't be able to sleep for the pain and burning. But the fan has the dual purpose of keeping me from perspiring during sleep. The fan by my bed is on all night long.

Its not that they get too hot, I just have horrendous night sweats, whole body. I have to change my bedding everyday.

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Originally posted by Cinds:

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Originally posted by *BB*:

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Originally posted by Cinds:

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Originally posted by *BB*:

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Originally posted by Cinds:

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Originally posted by Soozy woo:
I'm 52 .......can live with the hot flushes ...........yes I'm moody but ............the skin probs are doing my nut in!!!!!! Always had a good skin ....never really suffered teenage spots or anythinh but MY GOD .......it's payback now!

I'm 37, 38 in august, my skin is awful, I rarely sleep without aids, when I do sleep I wake up lord knows how many times sweating. Everything annoys me. According to statistics I should not get my menopause until I am in my 50's which is when my mother her mother and her mother before her got it. But then I read another blarf that said, you can go through menopausal symptoms for up to 10 years before it actually happens.


Can I opt out now?

Have you tried a fan for the night? I have Peripheral neuropathy and I have to have a fan trained on my feet and legs all day and night otherwise I wouldn't be able to sleep for the pain and burning. But the fan has the dual purpose of keeping me from perspiring during sleep. The fan by my bed is on all night long.

Its not that they get too hot, I just have horrendous night sweats, whole body. I have to change my bedding everyday.

If I didn't have the fan on all night because of my PN, I too would be soaked in sweat all night but the fan stops that from happening. It's worth a try and they're very cheap now. My husband came home with two new ones for me last week and they only cost around £7.50 each. It's the first time I have needed replacement fans for well over 6 years. The old ones still work but they are a bit noisy and rattley now.

I'm an awful sleeper, I get too hot, then I wake I sweating cos I am dreaming shitty, then I am too hot to fall back to sleep, then I wake up again too hot, then I fall asleep after having more shit dreams, and thats on a good night when I do manage some sleep.

I am off to bed to try to get some sleep now. Mr Cinds wants to snuggle.

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Originally posted by kattymieoww:

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Originally posted by Joods:
I've just turned 50 and my GP tells me my menopause has been and gone due to having to have a hysterectomy at 36. Thing is, apart from a few tingly hot flushes about 10 years ago, I don't remember having any other symptoms! It really surprised me as all the women on both sides of my family had some awful experiences when going through theirs.

You is just useless!

Swipes sweat away......

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Originally posted by cher:
I guess i have been really lucky
I was taking the mini-pill for numerous years
Which resulted in me never having a period, whilst taking it ...And I since stopping taking it, I have never had a period for about three years

So I guess I missed my menopause....Thank Goodness

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Originally posted by Supercalifragilistic:
Hello all
OMG..where do I begin?!?!
Have always had hideous periods/PMS etc...but alwayd did FFS get on with it, (apart from when I was puking up, severe diarrohea from the cramps, passing out etc. with the pain!) And, absolutely believed that all the stuff I said when my hormones were raging were things I would supress/tolerate otherwise- so when for e.g. my ex put it down to my hormones that I voiced my unhappiness I was/am clear that I would just somehow verbalise it then rather than put up with the shit.....
Really looked forward to the menopause..no more curse...yippee How wrong was I?! Wouldn't wish this on anyone.
Think I've been in peri-menopause for about 4 yrs. (periods every 2 weeks , some lating for 5 weeks at a time etc.etc.)...
Recently...haven't had a period for 3 months, had that feeling of 'about to come on' every single day of that -physically and emotionally. Then there's that feeling that, every day, I just want to pull the covers over my head and not face the day/can't be arsed with anything/no motivatin/energy/enthusiasm etc.....then, when I do get up I often spend the first hour or so needing to find a cold floor to lay down on before I pass out/throw up.
Can't even begin to describe how this is sooooo unlike 'me'!
Then there's the... I feel exhausted, but not tired/sleepy, so you're up all night..interspersed with 'sleeping for the UK'
I am seriously considering HRT, but then I also think FGS , generations before us did without and had much harder lives than I have..bloody well pull yourself together girl and get on with it...
Anyway...that's the bad news, good news is that this forum has been a serious bloody lifeline whilst I've been going through this shit!

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Originally posted by Supercalifragilistic:
Hello all
OMG..where do I begin?!?!
Have always had hideous periods/PMS etc...but alwayd did FFS get on with it, (apart from when I was puking up, severe diarrohea from the cramps, passing out etc. with the pain!) And, absolutely believed that all the stuff I said when my hormones were raging were things I would supress/tolerate otherwise- so when for e.g. my ex put it down to my hormones that I voiced my unhappiness I was/am clear that I would just somehow verbalise it then rather than put up with the shit.....
Really looked forward to the menopause..no more curse...yippee How wrong was I?! Wouldn't wish this on anyone.
Think I've been in peri-menopause for about 4 yrs. (periods every 2 weeks , some lating for 5 weeks at a time etc.etc.)...
Recently...haven't had a period for 3 months, had that feeling of 'about to come on' every single day of that -physically and emotionally. Then there's that feeling that, every day, I just want to pull the covers over my head and not face the day/can't be arsed with anything/no motivatin/energy/enthusiasm etc.....then, when I do get up I often spend the first hour or so needing to find a cold floor to lay down on before I pass out/throw up.
Can't even begin to describe how this is sooooo unlike 'me'!
Then there's the... I feel exhausted, but not tired/sleepy, so you're up all night..interspersed with 'sleeping for the UK'
I am seriously considering HRT, but then I also think FGS , generations before us did without and had much harder lives than I have..bloody well pull yourself together girl and get on with it...
Anyway...that's the bad news, good news is that this forum has been a serious bloody lifeline whilst I've been going through this shit!

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Originally posted by Karma_:

Fkin ell Ok, should I just pull the trigger before I hit 40?

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Originally posted by Karma_:

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Originally posted by Supercalifragilistic:
Hello all
OMG..where do I begin?!?!
Have always had hideous periods/PMS etc...but alwayd did FFS get on with it, (apart from when I was puking up, severe diarrohea from the cramps, passing out etc. with the pain!) And, absolutely believed that all the stuff I said when my hormones were raging were things I would supress/tolerate otherwise- so when for e.g. my ex put it down to my hormones that I voiced my unhappiness I was/am clear that I would just somehow verbalise it then rather than put up with the shit.....
Really looked forward to the menopause..no more curse...yippee How wrong was I?! Wouldn't wish this on anyone.
Think I've been in peri-menopause for about 4 yrs. (periods every 2 weeks , some lating for 5 weeks at a time etc.etc.)...
Recently...haven't had a period for 3 months, had that feeling of 'about to come on' every single day of that -physically and emotionally. Then there's that feeling that, every day, I just want to pull the covers over my head and not face the day/can't be arsed with anything/no motivatin/energy/enthusiasm etc.....then, when I do get up I often spend the first hour or so needing to find a cold floor to lay down on before I pass out/throw up.
Can't even begin to describe how this is sooooo unlike 'me'!
Then there's the... I feel exhausted, but not tired/sleepy, so you're up all night..interspersed with 'sleeping for the UK'
I am seriously considering HRT, but then I also think FGS , generations before us did without and had much harder lives than I have..bloody well pull yourself together girl and get on with it...
Anyway...that's the bad news, good news is that this forum has been a serious bloody lifeline whilst I've been going through this shit!

Fkin ell Ok, should I just pull the trigger before I hit 40?

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Originally posted by Dirtyprettygirlthing:


Soops... my mum was just like you described... At the time I was PA to a Directorate Manager in a hospital... one of his depts was Pharmacy.

Anyway... I happened to mention my mum's problems.. and he was on the phone to the cheif pharmacist immediately (bless him, my boss, remember him saying "quality of life lass... she has to have some quality of life").

End result was that she was on the wrong HRT.... there were also complications cos she has fibroids. The cheif pharmacist had a look at her blood results at put her on the Equine Oestrogen HRT (the horses pee one!).

She is (when she takes the bloody tablets) a changed woman.

Also... taking HRT helps to minimise the risks of running low for such a long period of time. Your comment about generations of women before us... do bear in mind.. previous generations of women would usually have more children than us... be pregnant for more of their lives than us... not take contraceptives etc....

Point of the post is... as my boss said to me... "you gotta have a quality of life lass"... and when my ma's case got looked at by someone who understood the female hormones (extremely complex systems).... a taylor made solution was found!

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Originally posted by Supercalifragilistic:
then i'll probs get my life back and never be on here again LOL!

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then i'll probs get my life back and never be on here again LOL!

Quick, cancel the advice!

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ahh Blizzie, that's 'nice'... dya know, must have seen your posts a zillion times but don't think I've ever 'directly' posted with you? This really has been a 'lifeline' for me these last few months..tell ya what, how about when I get meself sorted. I'll come in with hopefully a bitmore of my SOH to contribute?

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Originally posted by Dirtyprettygirlthing:

Your GP can take take your blood and order a simple test to see if you are perimenopausal (it measures LH & FSH hormones). At least then you'd know... and any supplements you may need could be sorted out

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Originally posted by Blizzie:


I forget who I've posted with, but I've certainly enjoyed your posts.

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I am off to bed to try to get some sleep now. Mr Cinds wants to snuggle.

I am off to bed to try to get some sleep now. Mr Cinds wants to snuggle.

Bliddy men...bet he' s got his sport white socks on,,,

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I am off to bed to try to get some sleep now. Mr Cinds wants to snuggle.

Bliddy men...bet he' s got his sport white socks on,,,

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Originally posted by The Secretary:
*races out of thread screaming*

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I am off to bed to try to get some sleep now. Mr Cinds wants to snuggle.

Bliddy men...bet he' s got his sport white socks on,,,

No he didn't have white sports socks on, he only wears them when he plays squash, but thats a whole different story and thread.

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Originally posted by Yogi 19:
I have suffered a bit with hot flushes but I haven`t had the mood swings, although hubby says how would he know the difference.
My most annoying symptom has to be "menopausal amnesia". Prior to the menopause, I had a good memory and a reasonably good vocabulary but not any more. It drives me mad at times!
On the subject of memory loss, my neighbour told me this story. Her friend, who was going through the menopause, had bought some herbal remedy which claimed to help restore memory. When my neighbour asked her if the tablets worked, she replied, "I don`t know because I keep forgetting to take them".