Boy oh boy I wish I was talking about some incredible amusement park with the biggest scariest roller coaster around....that would be fun wouldn't it??
Uness you happen to be afraid of heights as I am (oh well there is still time for me to get on one of those huge suckers)
No I am actually talking about peri-menopause ....the 5 to 10 years or more when our body starts preparing to no longer make babies.
I am a member of an online discussion group where we can share our symptoms and how we deal with them.
This is advice from the trenches not delivered from a doctor in a white coat talking in the abstract or worse yet dismissing our symptoms because they may not fall into the everyday category.
Yes there are plenty of reports of hot flashes and interrupted sleep. Of moodiness and depression. Of aches and pains of all sorts....not to forget our actual periods or lack there of.
They come and go and come back again after months of nothing and this whole rollercoaster of symptoms can start anywhere from mid thirties to mid fifties.
That is a wide range.
Of course there is no class we take or special seminar that prepares us...sure we know it is coming....but when???
Right now I suggest that we read as much as we can or participate in these types of groups.
Until we actually know what is happening and with the symptoms being somewhat vague and unique it is nice to have some info so we don't jump to the conclusion that we are dying from some mysterious illness.
Even Oprah was confused. Why should we be any different?
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