Was anybody else sad to have peri symptoms? Is that just me? It make me realize that I am getting old.
As I described upthread, I missed the whole peri stage. And by the time I knew I was post, I had lots of other reasons to feel old, so it wasn't much of a shock.
Getting older isn't so bad, once you consider the alternative.
Was anybody else sad to have peri symptoms? Is that just me? It make me realize that I am getting old.
I got a twinge of that, but I'm lucky enough to look much younger than my 48 years, so I just focussed on that part and continued to act like the 35-year-old I still subconsciously think I am.
I was being somewhat flip, but the truth is that I felt more like llanfair did. I was 50 when menopause was confirmed by an FSH test (and I was probably about 47 when I began to suspect that I was in menopause), and I actually felt too young to have reached this stage. I knew that I was in the right age bracket, of course--I'm talking about my own view of myself, how I
felt, not the actual physical age.
Then again, I'm 53 now, and I still don't feel that old, in spite of my body's insistence (through a variety of ways) that I am.
