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Ginger1218
Member
08-31-2001
| Monday, November 05, 2007 - 4:38 pm
Well, I can finally say I am in menopause. I think I will have a welcome menopause party. My GYN has been telling me that you are not considered being in menopause until you are without your period for 1 year. I kept slipping lol and I was getting very frustrated. I just wanted to get there. I had terrible PMS issues and could not wait to get that over with. I felt that menopause was dissin me. I know I am crazy lol, but -- finally -- one year. Now what?????? I can't tell if I have hot flashes because I am always hot.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, November 05, 2007 - 5:06 pm
LOL, ginger, I have that same problem. I am hot 90% of the time, I run a fan in the winter at the office! I have been hot since I was in my 30's, LOL. Let me know if you figure it out!
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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Monday, November 05, 2007 - 5:36 pm
Welcome, Ginger. lol I'm always hot too...and the tweezer is my best friend. Oh, and I always seem to forget that forgetfullness is a symptom of menopause.
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Nancy
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, November 05, 2007 - 5:54 pm
I wish i could say i was in it(am 49)--i have such weird periods right now--probbaly peri-menopause with my fibroid issues on top of it--i have had 2 periods in sept and 2 in october lasting a good week each time--in august i had 1 but in july i went 45 days before i had one--june was 29 days--ugh---
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Monday, November 05, 2007 - 6:23 pm
List me as another one that's hot all the time. I can't stand to try on clothes in stores because I'm sweating buckets by the time I'm done. If you find out why, please let me know.
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Monday, November 05, 2007 - 7:20 pm
Nancy, I went through that craziness in my 40s too. It was frustrating and exhausting! I sympathize with you. A nurse and a doctor have each called me post-menopausal, though my last period was 6 months ago. Prior to this, I had always heard it had to be a full year to be considered post-menopause. Whatever they want to call it, I am enjoying this phase. I have heard that hot flashes can continue for years for some women. Ginger, you're not crazy. You've just passed through the craziness and come out on the other side. Party on!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Monday, November 05, 2007 - 10:18 pm
Nancy, that is exactly what I went through with the periods in peri-menopause. And sometimes they were so heavy they were downright scary, and I wondered if I was going to lose all the blood I had. Or if I should go to the emergency room.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, November 05, 2007 - 10:37 pm
Nancy, I am in peri at 43 and my periods are doing that also...hadnt had one since end of aug and then last week had one, 2nd day was worst i have ever had, then it was normal on 3rd day and done on 4th...that was 3 days ago and today i feel like i am pmsing again, my boobs hurt so bad and i am a raging beyatch
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, November 05, 2007 - 10:38 pm
lol i just realized i am 44 and will be 45 in dec
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Ginger1218
Member
08-31-2001
| Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - 5:32 am
I am 54, and think I am 24 (or wish I was) I am not really sure how this happened. I was just 18 and now I am 54.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - 6:18 am
I know whatcha mean!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - 6:32 am
ditto. it is freaking weird.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - 6:43 am
You would know if it was a hot flash versus just being hot. A hot flash seems to start from the inside and travel the whole length of your body and the sweat begins to roll. The best thing I can compare it to is when you break a high fever.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - 7:22 am
Ya sweat standing still in an air conditioned room. "What's goin' on? Oh, yeah." Life span of starting / stopping periods is opposite what you'd think. The earlier you start, the longer you will have them. The later they start, the sooner they'll stop.
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Kstme
Member
08-14-2000
| Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - 7:37 am
I went through menopause at 37. I'm now 60 (ouch) and I STILL have hot flashes. Each person is different. Frankly, I'd like to beat the heck out my friends who only had them for a few years! I have noticed they have calmed down, a bit, but the night sweats have gotten worse. sheesh! I do not take any hrts.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 7:14 am
looking forward to hotflashes.....I'm freezing ALL the time!! knowing my luck I'll be the only person EVER to go thru menopause without the flashes LOL
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 8:15 am
Never had a hot flash or night sweats and it's been 16 months w/o a period so I'm assuming it's menopause. I look back at the last 10 years and alot of the grouchiness and mood swings, irregular periods that I attributed to the stress of my mom being terminally ill for so long might fit into peri menopause symptoms. And the CRS. 30 is awfully young to start peri symptoms but then again my mom had to have a hysterectomy [sp?] at age 34 due to severe peri symptoms so I guess I am on track with her. So for me no hot flashes, no night sweats. Oh and I started my period on my 10th birthday so I guess I really AM an oddball to be done by 40.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 9:16 am
for various reasons, i decided to quit my ERT. it's been 3 weeks (i think), the hot flashes are definitely there (feels more like a fever breaking) but so far, nothing unlivable.
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 9:22 am
I am 45 and can't wait to go thru menopause. I would say the past 5 years or so, I have had really bad pms. My periods have been all screwed up, but i never miss a month (sometimes i will get it twice in one month) my doctor says that is normal
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 9:27 am
How long will my mom be crazy, sick, bitchy, hypocondriac, weepy, anxiety?
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 9:29 am
10 years and counting for me Escapee. Sorry.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 9:52 am
crap.
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 9:54 am
Well granted I never went to the doc. I think I really could/can benefit from anti depressants. So maybe it wouldn't have been as bad with some meds. But like I said it was like 10 months after my last period that I started reading up and realized alot of my problems I attributed to my mom being sick could also be attributed to peri.
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Spitfire
Member
07-18-2002
| Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 10:31 am
I have quite often heard that menopause symptoms are hereditary...true?
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 10:44 am
Every medication they have given my mom she's had every side effect from it and then some and has to stop taking them.
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