For most of us, I think.

That made me cry. Yikes... hits kinda close to home I guess.

I started going through menopause when I was 37. I thought I was becoming agoraphobic because I was having hot flashes which caused panic attacks. I took HRT's half the dose, just enough to keep the hot flashes down. I was done by 45. Unlike many women, my interest in sex did not diminish, and I didn't dry up.

There is a lot of controversy around HRTs, and my own informal survey seemed to indicate a connection between women who got breast cancer and women who took HRTs.

i love this:

Not feeling queasy, are you?



Wow - if yours has begun, that is really early. I wish I had the "taper" thing going on. Mine's actually coming every 3 weeks, which isn't fun. But hopefully I'll start missing a few. That would be awesome.

My older sister stopped all of a sudden at 50 with no symptoms. I went until 55, and wasn't really that pleasant, but not anything I couldn't deal with. The thermostat problem was the worst. If I got cold, I couldn't warm up, and if I got hot, I couldn't cool down.

i havent gotten mine in about 2 months.

Symptoms of "the change" are coming fast and furious, now. I'm kind of excited. Not just at the wonder of how human bodies manage themselves....but if I'm starting this early, hopefully I'll finish early (like my one sister who also had no kids) and never have to worry about birth control again. Hopefully, it won't last seven more years.

Symptoms of "the change" are coming fast and furious, now. I'm kind of excited. Not just at the wonder of how human bodies manage themselves....but if I'm starting this early, hopefully I'll finish early (like my one sister who also had no kids) and never have to worry about birth control again. Hopefully, it won't last seven more years.