tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4361480824395722677.post9214195418794118596..comments2023-06-14T21:12:22.878+10:00Comments on Meaninless Meandering from a Madmother: Flogging a Dead Horse - *TMI* Madmother Style.Madmotherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18189416781378632230noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4361480824395722677.post-28127749901221986612011-02-06T12:46:06.446+10:002011-02-06T12:46:06.446+10:00The bloody (no pun intended) trouble with peri-men...The bloody (no pun intended) trouble with peri-menopause is it lasts years and years and years. And even when you finally think you are there - the real menopause - nup - back it all comes. I am lucky to have missed most of the heavy bleeding, but the never knowing when it was coming and then nearly 2 years with nothing, think its over? No, now it is spotting whenever it feels like it. Think I was first told I was peri-menopausal when I was in my late 30s, I am now nearly 56. Aarrgg.Kakkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16376864098492915312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4361480824395722677.post-84188490487329207232011-02-05T18:12:42.440+10:002011-02-05T18:12:42.440+10:00My mum refers to hot flushes as personal summers. ...My mum refers to hot flushes as personal summers. Keeping her sense of humour is the only way she is surviving the joys of peri-menopause.Glowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08156015996147898156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4361480824395722677.post-28819641492539995372011-02-04T14:48:39.537+10:002011-02-04T14:48:39.537+10:00Oh that last paragraph....! Funny but awful, awful...Oh that last paragraph....! Funny but awful, awful. Ugh, it's really not much fun to look forward to. "You mean there's THAT as well?" Greaaat.Being Mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08600427311498297800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4361480824395722677.post-14168388907102588942011-02-04T13:04:34.744+10:002011-02-04T13:04:34.744+10:00I hear you too. That was me, nothing peri-menapau...I hear you too. That was me, nothing peri-menapausal about it. <br />Not now. I had a do-dat put into my who-ha via my which-what to fix that. <br />Mine was years and years of heavy blood loss every month. Then being completely drained of iron as a result. So I had a little thigimy put into me to stop it all. Sigh. No fun being a woman at all ... <br />You have reminded me to get my iron levels checked. Might explain a few things ...Leanne @ Deep Fried Fruithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00886017636780724635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4361480824395722677.post-53816769487413934422011-02-04T12:32:31.622+10:002011-02-04T12:32:31.622+10:00I hear you loud and clear. I'm 46 this year an...I hear you loud and clear. I'm 46 this year and have had crazy periods all my life, but now they've stepped it up a level. <br />I'm so over it.<br />If this happened to one man, there'd be a cure within a year.Tonihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16561240096806868742noreply@blogger.com