to all premenopausal women!!! and their better halves

[PineappleMama]

Are you PMSing/having a mood swing... even if you weren't you will be now... course that really applies to females 9-90 but still surprises me how many people are stupid enough to say it.

I swear one of these days I'ma ask "Are you having an erectile disfunction moment? Or maybe bum seepage... since hearing Jeff Foxworthy mention that one I'm itching to use it....

edit... did you know that you cannot put the actual medical term for the area poo comes out of on here? The censor changes it to 'picky'... which I sorta get but picky seepage just does NOT work...

 

[WisconsinChickenWhisperer]

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Oh, yes! I was diagnosed with Graves disease 11 years ago, so it was hard for me to determine without a complete blood work-up if I was actually in perimenopause, or if it was my thyroid screwing things up again.

 

[welsummerchicks]

The symptoms of menopause aren't largely caused by as many as 5 hormones involved stopping, but by their levels going up and down. If the amount of hormones gradually and smoothly changes over time, I believe there are few symptoms.

 

[EweSheep]

I'm terribly NASTY...hubby didnt give me a hug and kiss before leaving for work....it didn't bother me too much but now it does. Every little thing that he forget or something he did wrong, really ticked me off big time. BIG TIME! Like a royal big PMS big time going on.

Isn't this normal for perimenopause? Roller coaster of emotions!

Oh SHOOT ME!

 

[caspernc]

Heres a good one. I was in the ER for a blood clot in my leg and the Dr. came in and asked if I could be pregnaunt......I told him, #1 I have had my tubes tied twice (nothing is a hundered %) and #2 I"M 51 YEARS OLD! If I am pregnaunt you better have a gun!

 

[teach1rusl]

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Hilarious!!!

"picky" seepage

Bum seepage sounds pretty good though (well - not good...hehee)

 

[mom'sfolly]

Ladywoodsong, my boys are the same age as your boys. Sometimes the 13-year-old is a wonderful young man with a quirky sense of humor, other days he is ATTITUDE with huge feet and a mouth. I'm 48, and I'm pretty sure I'm peri...it makes things interesting some days.

I had the mustache thing asked the last time I got my eyebrows done. I was even polite when I said no. However, if anyone asks if mom or the 13-year-old has the bigger mustache, I will not be responsible for my actions.

 

[sourland]

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Yes!!! What have you done with that sweet easy going woman that I married?

 

[drdoolittle]

welsummerchicks, I have almost all the same symptoms as your friend-----minus the heart-pounding. I didn't realize that all those things were from premenopause. I had a partial-hysterectomy almost 2 years ago, so no periods, but DH said, "I think you still go through your cycles because you still act b****y once a month."

Yes, I do have some moments of unexplainable rage, but it kinda' correlates with the horrible behavior of my teens! It certainly doesn't help to have one of your kids saying, "You're crazy." when you're going through all this-----I have all boys, so they will never have the pleasure of experiencing these symptoms first-hand.

Why do women have to go through so much (periods, pregnancy, birth, hysterectomies, menopause) while our so-called "better-half" goes through life pretty much oblivious to what's going on? Oh well, they DO have to put up with us. Don't get me wrong, I love my hubby----to me, he's a cross between Ray Romano and Tim Allen's character on Home Improvement----except he doesn't have so many accidents with tools!

Anyway, I don't take anything for the symptoms, like I said, I didn't know they were all related. Sometimes I think I am just too busy to worry about it, and sometimes I wonder if I am dying! How long does this last?

 

[chkinut]

from what i've read, it can last anywhere from 1 - 10 yrs! helpful huh? lol.....my teens (who are grown now) .....18, 18 (step daughter) and 20............all talk amongst each other and my youngest of the 3 says "you guys have changed since we've become teenagers".............i guess they think that we've become more of the "yelling" type of parents, and we really don't yell a whole lot, but yes, i've certainly lost my patience at times. i tried to explain to him that when your kids start getting disrespectful and have hateful attitudes towards you, yes, as a parent you will react. i tried to explain that it was them that changed....once they got to be around 12, it all started going downhill. of course it didn't help that we have a "blended family" and hubby and i have been together for almost 14 yrs now......we thought we were like the Brady Bunch at first.....lol......but when they got to be teens it was a totally different ball game. and when you're a blended family....at least in our experience, it's horrible when they get to be teens cuz if they don't like the rules then guess what? they say "we're outta here" and just go off and live with the parent that allows the most. my X was a good parent for the most part though. but hubby's X is a different story.....she has destroyed her daughter in a very manipulative way and has destroyed my step daughters relationship with us, especially with my hubby. hubby fought twice for her in the past, and won both times, so Xwife was VERY preterbed.....anyway....how did i end up going way off subject on all this? i should start a thread one day about the frustrations of blended families. not now though, i don't have the mental capacity to do it.....lol! and besides, they are all moved out now....it's just the 3 of us now (me, DH and DS who is almost 12).