Nearing menopausal stage

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I am a female who turned forty three last year. I only thought older women that are women who were in there sixty’s or older went through menopause.

I never thought someone who was forty one could start going through menopause. Most women aren’t getting pregnant till their forty now days. I started just feeling bad.

I ached all over, so naturally I thought I had a cold or the flu. I began to sweat all the time. It was like I had stepped out of sauna. Sweat would just start running out every pore in my body and it would be 20 degrees outside.

I had headaches all the times. My nerves were shot, and I felt awful. I would get the shakes and get dizzy spells. I wasn’t sleeping hardly any. I would just lay awake all night. Read the rest of this entry »

I am a 45 year old female and have been having menopause symptoms for the last year and a half.

When I first noticed these symptoms, I did not recognize them for what they were. I honestly thought I was getting the flu.

My face and neck would break out in beads of sweat for no apparent reason. Several times throughout the course of a day, and my face and neck felt hot and flushed.

My body would follow with bursts of extreme heat radiating from the inside out. These “bursts of fever” would occur several times a day, for several weeks at a time, and would then subside for a month or two, only to be followed by weeks and weeks of the feverish, flushing bursts of heat and discomfort, and profuse and random sweating.

I do not think I am finished with these symptoms, although they have subsided for the time being.

My menstrual cycles are extremely irregular, when before the cycles were like clockwork. I am not taking any medications for these symptoms, nor have I sought medical attention. I did, however, look online to find out what was causing these bursts of feverish sweating, and the only explanation that was reasonable was menopause! Read the rest of this entry »

I am female 53 years old.

Yes I have met menopause.

I started losing my hair around 5 years ago and have been having Hot Flashes for the past 3 years.

The hot flashes started during the day and I did not think anything about it at first.

Then I started having the hot flashes at night.

Two years ago I stopped having any period.

I still have the hot flashes.

I have talked to friends and have looked stuff up about menopause on the internet. Read the rest of this entry »

I am a female and my menopause started for me at the age of 44.

My periods were getting far and few between and I was having hot flashes at night and during the day, feeling tired because I could not sleep at night.

I did some home remedies but they did not seem to work, so I went to the doctor and she said she could give me something for the hot flashes but that I would probably have to take it for the rest of my life and so.

I opt out on that and just deal with it. Read the rest of this entry »

I am a female from India and am 45 years old. Yes I have met menopause. The symptoms started about two years ago.

I started getting irregular periods, which were erratic – I used to get period once in every 15 days which will stay for 4-5 days. This continued for about 6-7 months.

The symptoms for the beginning of my period will be before 3 to 4 days of my periods I will not have bladder control.

Once the period is over I will be fine otherwise. During the first year I used to have regular normal flow for 3-4 days and the period will stop gradually.

After the initial six months I started having my period sometimes in 15 days or after two moths. The flow has started to be very heavy and I used to pass clots and became very weak and anemic. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m a 46 year old female with no children and since I was 14 have had a regular period. For years I took birth control, but stopped in 1988 when I married my husband who had a vasectomy prior to our marriage.

I have no children and most of my life been overweight, until 2006 when I had weight loss surgery which resulted in 100lb weight loss.

Since then I’ve probably had 8 periods and in the last six months I’ve stated experiencing hot flashes in the daytime and night time sweats so bad I would have to get up and take a shower.

I had my last pap smear in October 2008, but didn’t mention this to my doctor. I currently don’t take any kind of hormone replacements nor do I want to.

I have notice a slight change in my emotions, not crying or sad, just changes I can’t put a name to, it doesn’t interfere with my daily activities, but I know it’s there and it feels odd. Read the rest of this entry »

I was very lucky with the menopause really, although I was young when it first struck, being only 45, it was also very short lived.

I am a woman and now in my early 50′s and thankfully all symptoms have passed. It all started with erratic periods that got heavier, more painful, and very irregular.

Next came insomnia swiftly followed by nausea and hot flushes.

All in all not a good year as you can imagine.

I am of a generation that was brought up not to ‘ bother ‘ the doctor about such things , in fact I only found out that I had been peri-menopausal for about a year prior to the year of the Big M last year.

Almost 5 years after the event. It was just not the sort of thing that I was brought up to talk openly about. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve met menopause and she certainly wasn’t invited in. Much to my dismay she barged right past me and plopped on the couch – wide butt and all.

I am female and I’m sure menopause is female too.

A bitchy, hairy, moody, overweight ,old female that is. She has brought periods that drain me of so much blood I should actually lose weight from the loss.

Is this a regular occurrence? Oh no, it’s a really neat game that only she knows. Is it here? Will it come on time?

Maybe I’m pregnant because it’s been so long between… Oh no, that’s right, you have to be young and having sex to get pregnant. Oh well, maybe tomorrow. Read the rest of this entry »

My name is Barbara, and I am a 48 year old woman. I started signs of menopause when I was just 39, and little by little, over the years, things just stopped.

I have had one period in the span of one year, and that seemed to be due to incredible stress in my life at the time.

Things calmed down, no period since. It was not as hard as I had feared it would be, though.

Night sweats we hell, but, not constant. Mood swings, well they were no more severe than normal life.

I have had two miscarriages since my signs of menopause started. The doctor explained that my eggs were too old to give birth. Read the rest of this entry »

As a 63 year old female, my own menopause symptoms started at age 50. That may have been a little early, but I was a late bloomer, not starting my periods until I was about 16. I noticed that even with reduction in frequency and flow, the cramps and bloating actually got worse as well as the occasional emotional issue of facing a real change in my life.

That emotional issue is probably the worst with the realization that time is passing and none of us will live forever. As time went on, periods were skipped and finally stopped altogether at about 53.

Seeking advice from my physician early on, he prescribed hormone pills and exercise to ease the discomfort. In addition to the medication, however, I did manage to feel much better when I learned from friends and online searches that my symptoms were mild to nonexistent when compared to others. Read the rest of this entry »