What age did you start peri?
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i was 39, i remember saying to my partner my 39th year is going to be awesome as the years before i was going through various medication withdrawal (hell) and had a reaction to antibiotics that left me in an ambulance and being diagnosed with ms, not sure it is ms as i had the same symptoms last year after taking that antibiotic again (you live and you learn) anyway my 39th sucked and so has my 40th, 41 next month x
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jane66356 toria_07298
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I was 45 when I started Peri...now 55 and finally menopausal. It was 10 years of hell. Not all of it but enough that it had affected my life.
toria_07298 jane66356
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hi jane, glad youre through it, praying its not 10 years for me 😦 being diagnosed with more and more things, i used to be super active and now not at all xx
jane66356 toria_07298
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toria -- hopefully it won't take 10 years for you to reach menopause. average length of peri is 4 years........me too on the "used to be active"... I had been into fitness since age 17... was still 127 lbs at 45 years old (5'7") -- went up to 158 lbs but that was partly from MS medication that was making me crave sugar. I'm down to 144 lbs. Still hoping to get my activity level back up. I know I'll never be 127 lbs again...as well I probably shouldn't be that skinny at 55 years old. I'm hoping to get fit again and get down to 138 lbs. Gotta watch my heart health as my mother had 3 heart attacks and recently died from heart disease. Granted she was 82 but genetics are against me. Once menopausal, most women are subject to an increase in heart disease.
toria_07298 jane66356
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fingers crossed it doesnt last that long, you arent heavy, im really underweight, my bmi is 17 xx