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 female and I went through menopause at 45.

I had hot flashes.

I would wake up sweating and I would have to change clothes.

I was moody and I found that exercises helped me a lot to get rid of that added emotional state.

I also drank chamomile tea and that calmed me down a lot.

I also took up reading a relaxing self-help book at night.

I am a 50 year old woman, who is going through menopause. About 3 years ago, I started to have irregular periods and went to my dr, after some tests, he informed me I was “almost” thru the menopause process.

I really didn’t have any symptoms at that time, just the irregular periods, but the dr put me on prescription medicine which totally made symptoms appear.

I was getting hot flashes, irritable, craving chocolate one minute, then something salty the next, just nasty.

I refused to take the prescription as it just made things worse, so after some discussion. Read the rest of this entry »

I am a female, 49 years old. I started having hot flashes about 2 years ago, when I was 47.

My periods were horrible, very heavy and I was miserable. My periods lasted 2 weeks.

I did not go to the doctor because I wanted to try and deal with it naturally. I started taking Estroven Extra Strength at that time to deal with the hot flashes and it worked okay.

It lessoned the sweats and it also has ingredients that are healthy, like B vitamins, calcium, and cranberry extract.

In the summer of my 48th year, I stopped having my period and didn’t have it for 4 months. I started again, but my periods didn’t seem as bad, even though they still lasted 10 days.

This past summer I stopped again and haven’t started back. It’s FANTASTIC!!! I hope this time it doesn’t return. Read the rest of this entry »

I am a female and I began menopause when I was 49 years of age. My menstrual cycle just ceased and never began again.

I did have, what I believe, was peri menopause for about 10 years prior to this. With that came, extreme mood swings, tiredness, and heavy menstrual flow with cramping.

Menopause brought me relief from these things, however, my hormones did go wacky and I became involved in an extramarital affair.

I do believe these raging hormones were mostly responsible for this as an affair was totally out of character for me. I was like a girl having sex for the first time.

I had some hot flashes but, they were not enough to make me too uncomfortable. I was probably bothered more with night sweats, but the mood swings were gone. Read the rest of this entry »

I started menstruating in June before I turned 11 in September. I think I developed endometriosis within a couple of months. My periods were a week long, very heavy, and very painful, especially the third day, when I would spend an hour or two on the toilet.

When I got up, the toilet would be full of glistening black-red feces. I know this sounds unpleasant. It was very unpleasant. I married at nineteen and became pregnant almost immediately.

To my astonishment, after the baby was born, my periods became painless. After about two and a half years the pain returned, and I at once decided it was time to become pregnant again.

But unfortunately, my husband wanted only two children. I wanted four, so we compromised on three. After that third was born, the doctor inserted an IUD to prevent further pregnancies. That was a nightmare.

I was an identification clerk at a police department, and my periods were so heavy I was constantly running to the restroom to change supplies. One day, I inserted three super-size tampons and put on two super-size pads.

As soon as I was out of the restroom, I was called to process a prisoner. This consisted of taking down information about his name, address, and so forth; fingerprinting him; and photographing him face on and profile.

By the time I got through, I had bled through everything including my skirt, and had to go home and change clothes. In a few months the IUD was removed.

After that, my periods were normal for me: three days of heavy bleeding and intense pain, and four days of light bleeding. But then I hit the age of 48. Read the rest of this entry »

I am a 54 year old woman who went through menopause at age 49. I started skipping periods at age 45 (perimenopause) and that’s when the terrible mood swings started. It was like constant PMS.

I was crying over nothing, angry most of the time and would vision evil things, like wanting to castrate my husband when he didn’t agree with me. These symptoms got worse over time from age 45-49.

I also started getting panic attacks while driving a car and riding in elevators. This was terrible because I would have to wait until someone was also going to take an elevator before I got in. It curtailed my driving – I would only drive withing a 20 mile radius of my home and never, ever get on a freeway. Read the rest of this entry »