Not my favorite time of the month, at all. I am peri-menopausal. Hot flashes come and go, usually come for weeks at a time, then disappear for months. My periods are heavy, heavy clotty annoying. I have at least one or two days when I pretty much stay within a few steps of my barroom due to the heaviness. And I have issues with old blood for days after the end of the period. UGH I have had my children, have no desire for more and am so ready for this change to get over with once and for all.
putting the fun in dysfunctional since 1997
My mom had a really hard time with menopause, she took lots of naps and cried frequently. BUT it was a less than 2 year journey from beginning to end. Now she is back to her old self, active, creating, doing family stuff, and she never took any drugs through the whole thing. You *will* get through it :)
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I have been dealing with hot flashes coming and going for over 2 years now. Last summer, during the worst stress of my life, they were frequent. They have been mostly absent for almost a year again. The women on my mother's side all went through menopause before their late 40s and I am early 40s.
I am definitely a no drugs for this Mama. I would just like closure. SOON. hee hee
staying close to the barroom sounds good...although i guess you mean bathroom and i prolly shouldn't try to solve everything with alcohol (can i help it that my mother gave me vodka when i had bad cramps as a teenager?!)
seriously though, i have horrible heavy periods and having been taking a homeopathic thingy do last few months and i think it helps. Sabina, it's specifically for heavy periods (little blue bottles from Boiron). I've no idea if you 'belive' in homeopathy or if it would help in perimenopausal situations, but might be worth a try? it's reduced the number of days that i bleed heavily by half....
anyway, wishing you speedy done with it already-ness!!!
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. -- Emily Dickinson
You want to do what you think is right and what matters to you, and if other people don't like it, as my father would have said, they can go fuck themselves. -- Amy Bloom
lol I would love to stay within steps of my bar room! Not much a good stout or vodka drink can't "cure"!
Sabina? I will look into that. I am all about non medical, non invasive etc. I like homeopathic solutions. I am so willing to do herbs, homeopathy, anything natural. i won't take any drugs or hormone replacements. Not my cup o'tea, or pint o' Guinness.
I, too, prefer to avoid drugs and I am not peri-menopausal but I have had experience with heavy heavy prolonged periods
, clots that felt like reliving the birth of the placenta, and after 40 days in a row wondering how I'm still alive and how many more shirts I can get away with surrendering to the rag pile before I have to go topless. I came home from the least-apt-to-prescribe, most-access-to-alternatives doctor with a big paper bag filled with GIANT syringes of progesterone cream. I ran out of places to put the stuff before I stopped bleeding. I respect my natural cycles, have good associations with my moontime, and have researched birth control methods enough to know what I did next felt extremely dangerous. I went on the nuva-ring for ten months. Even though there was no chance of getting pregnant ( I had a girlfriend! ). That was almost three years ago and my periods have been consistent and managable ever since.
Hello, red tent ....
(i've been meaning to us this thread to track & i am glad I remembered today)
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and hello again.....
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ok, i knew this could happen in the same house, but why are we getting on the same cycle occupying the same virtual space?
When I was your age, I was already trying to kill my second husband and make it look like bears did it.
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books!
the moon? our long time friendship? to be "funny"?
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