Hi fellow peri sufferers

Thanks jayneejay.as another part of me aches I ask the grandchildren if I can swap my old parts for their young ones.all we can do is keep smiling cos the end has got to come eventually.xx

hi Linda, yes we have to make light of it even though its not pleasant, my partner works away and was back for a few days and all i was doing was having hot flushes hahahahahahaha we did laugh, he said its because hes so exciting to see... ' wally' 

i feel that i must be nearing the final stage i hope after 9 years, i am 50 next month, the aches and pains. anxiety, fog have lifted, thank god, my last period was nearly 10 months ago, ( only had two in 2013) think though the hot flushes are weird again, very severe, just had another, i live in spain so always feel warm, and dont want to feel any warmer, starts in the face and works its way down... have about six a day lately just had one while typing this..

gonna change my natural main tablet soon as think i have been taking it too long and thats maybe why these flushes are back... body got use to it ...

B6 cleared my aches and anxiety and fog ... wow suited me just great.

even thr weird monthly feelings i got have gone, use to feel really pre menstrual each month and abit weepy but thats gone ... may come back but hasnt the last two or three months...  light at the end of the long tunnel..

Jay xx

 

I am 51 in July, not had a period since last April, although went on HRT for 3 months and then came off, any idea when I will be through all this nonsense?  Decided to go the natural route instead of HRT but finding it difficult, taking FXNutrition for hot flushes, which works MOST of the time.  However, memory is a real prolem, especially as working in a school, when we look at planning from last year, I am expected to remember what we did and have no clue!!!!  Really worrying.  Any supplements I can take for this and stress levels, get really stressed at home with my son and during this half term sleeping for 12 hour or 10 hour nights!  And then still tired!  Anyone got any good answers... driving me mad!  I might add I do yoga and at Easter committed myself to 2 sessions of yoga a day, morning and evenign, enjoying it at first, now becoming really difficult as so tired.  Not me.  Any answers... please?

hi 

well no one knows how long, i am in year nine of peri so who knows..

been through what you have explained

there are many answers on here so should help you... chin up Jay xx

I am with you on the wd40.i also take an age to try to scratch my back because my arms won't go where they are suppose to.if only we could take off our arms and legs at night,just imagine the lovely sleep we would get."bliss"xx

hahahahahaha

its my neck at bed time, cant get my head comfy, have the best feathery pillows and i am punching them all night to nestle my head in to get comfy..

so yes, legs, arms and my head off 😄

Snap jayneejay.i even brought new pillows cos I thought that was why I woke up everyday with a headache.i have found rubbing painkiller gel on my neck relieves it.

Oh that describes me to a T!

I was learning to ski in Finland in 2005 (never leave that sport til you're in your 40's!) and had a comedy fall off my cross-country skis (the kind of slow-motion backwards sliding down a teeny tiny 2metre slope that culminates in helplessly falling flat on your face). When my husband finally stopped laughing he attempted to get me back on my feet, minus the offending skis, and I experienced severe shooting pains in one hip - but I can't remember which one!

The point of it is, some nights I can be kep-t awake by terrible pain in my left hip that radiates down my thigh, making comfort a thing of the past. Several weeks ago my night was blessed with that, a dead right arm (very frequent occurence if I sleep on it) and period pain front and back! Then a 3 day migraine.

I turn 50 in October but am still as regular as clockwork but it's lasting longer and causing havoc with mind and body! My knees have been dodgy for years, with a horrible crunching sound, but now I am finding I get the most pain in the area above the kneecap, especially when trying to get out of the bath! What an old lady!

Oh....and my left knee has a habit of randomly giving way when I need to change direction! After yelping a few times I then can't remember if it actually hurt!

Is there a medical grade WD40 on the market yet??????.

My favourite thing to forget is whether my husband wants tea or coffee.he only tells me 5 minutes before but I get in the kitchen and stand there racking my brain trying to remember.he is getting used to be coming back in 

Hi ladies, that's me too!

I have to walk past my husband's "office" door to get to the bathroom, and if he calls me in for something I usually forget where I was headed! Also, he tends to pass me mugs / plates / things to recycle as I am passing so these items invariably get left either in the hall or the bathroom. On several occasions I have been looking for his coffee mug only to find I am still gripping its handle! He only drinks coffee, never tea, so I can't get the order wrong ... but I CAN forget he wanted anything in the first place!

My mother-in-law reckons our brains are the same as computers. The more information keeps going into them the slower they get and the harder it is to access the info you really want! Trouble is, mine keeps going into sleep mode or crashing altogether - sleep doesn't necessarily reboot it though!

Oh how we, as kids, laughed when my mum put the teapot in the fridge / freshly delivered milk bottles in the washing machine / washing up liquid in the pasta instead of salt ..... now she can laugh when I regale her with tales of my own absentmindedness! The other day I found my hand hovering over several cleaning products on the bathroom windowsill -  instead of the toothpaste!!

Eek!

Madmarilyn, yes had all this, ( brain fog) people also talking to me and i look and try and look like i am listening, but heard nothing, then they ask you something related to that conversation 😳 i just said, ' oh now let me think' 😀 and also peoples names, cant remember them,... it does get better honest..

i seem to of lept out of that one now... Jay xxx

So true- I used to be good with names, and now I can't even remember what someone has just told me. I am great at asking questions, but can just never remember the ansŵers! As for being like a computer, I reckon we have minds like disc drives - if the drive gets full, something has to drop off to allow more information in! 

The computer analogy could work in explaining hot flushes - my laptop gets very hot and overheats if it has been working too hard!

Hmmm....I'm good with faces, I can picture the answers to quiz questions....but can I remember the actual names or words???  Hopeless!

Hi Madcow..

well i have the vacuum cleaner in bits on the floor trying to see why its got no suck.... i think i will give it a vit B6 and see if its better in the morning 

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Jay xx

Madcow,

First I want to say THANK YOU! I haven't laughed so much in a long time. I can absolutely relate to the short term memory loss. 

Thanks again!!!! Felt good to laugh.

Kim

Hi Kim,

Glad to be of service!

Sometimes, in my more lucid moments, I wonder if I should write a small (very small) book of comedy moments from a peri=menopausal woman - but the potential for writer's block is enormous! PMT tends to banish any sense of humour though! I was out with my 80-something parents the other day and, as usual, conversations over lunch deteriorated into fits of the giggles. It's good to larf - keeps you just this side of sane!

Just a little concerned that we haven't heard how Jayneejay's force-feeding her vacuum cleaner with B vits went! Maybe the increase in suck was TOO successful?? I am also a little puzzled - no-where in literature about B-vits have I read that they increase the ability to suck.....how did she find out? The mind boggles!!