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When will I not have it ? 
Really is there an average age when all this hormonal stuff is finished ?
I'm moving into my arthritus big time now and asthma too .I could really use a break on the hormones right about now but I'm 44yo .
So how much longer ?
shall we start a menapase pool instead of a football or hockey pool .
ok I guess I'm still in the PMS stage right now  best go give dh a hug as he just walked in the door 
Much Love , Rox
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Okay, I am 52 1/2 and NO signs of slowing down!
I wouldn't mind a few less hormones running around either!
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So what kind of pool? Placing bets on when you or I get it??? I find that scary- what if the mom who says 56 wins???????
Someone tell me that I will just stop one day and that will be it- no symptoms or problems.....
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I really truely am loving aging  yet the hormaonal stuff does really get to me .I think it is the one area of aging I could really use some time off of other then that I love being a granny , getting grey hair , being slow finially is respected now my simplicity passes for wise and learned my lack of memory is excused because I'm old in my children's eyes
I never really got the anti aging thing all my friends got caught up in .I absolutly couldn't wait to be like my grandmother
yes a pool for when will our hormonal swings end . well I just caught a bit of the news and saw a 60 yo mum had twins ! never say never that's for sure
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Maturemomg wrote:
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I don't have any symptoms or problems, but only because I had to have a hysterectomy after my ds5 was born (and I stress the word had).
On the one hand, I know that I am "lucky" not to go through hot flashes, hormonal fluctuations, etc. On the other hand, I know that I will never feel a little one growing inside me again. My good friend is starting to go through menopause right now (she's 44) and I know how miserable she is, but I can't help the little voice inside of me that whispers *she can still have children and you can't* every time she starts to talk about her latest symptoms.
I'm editing this because I don't want you to think I am berating you! I wish I had some answers for you - I know how much my friend suffers, and I imagine you are both going through the same, if not worse. You do have my prayers!
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Thanks Paula , we all have those crosses . Hard but we have each other for empathy , support etc.
I feel selfish sometimes as we've 6 living children but I miscarried 9 . I still feel at times I wish I 'd had my babies . Or one more and not miscarry yet I have 6 live how could I be selfish and want more .
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I'm 42 and trying to be at peace with it all. It's one of life's ironies that, after years of contracepting (as non-Catholics) and resisting the truth of Humana Vitae, I arrive at a place of peace and joy in being open to life . . . and hit menopause. Well, I'm not officially "there" yet, but headed that way at a speed I would not have imagined. Somehow I envisioned myself as being one of these people who would go on being fertile (and gorgeous, of course!) for years and years and years.
Sooooo -- when I made my first Confession, the priest actually resisted my confessing prior use of birth control, because I hadn't been Catholic and hadn't "known" that it was wrong, but I wanted to confess it anyway. I know that God forgives me, but what I have mulled on over the past months, with great sadness and attempts at peaceful resignation, is that while our sins are forgiven, our decisions and their consequences are not necessarily erased. *sigh* Trying to offer up my longing for "just one more" . . . but also to remember Sarah and St. Elizabeth, and God's infinite capacity for miracle.
Meanwhile, my skin hasn't broken out this badly since I was 15, and it's already 106 degrees here, so it's not like I really NEEDED to feel any hotter! Or any more emotional, or forgetful, or muddled. Offering it up, offering it up, offering it up . . .
On the other hand, I love my silver hairs. I always tell myself they're silver, as in sterling - never gray.
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SallyT wrote:
It's one of life's ironies that, after years of contracepting (as non-Catholics) and resisting the truth of Humana Vitae, I arrive at a place of peace and joy in being open to life . . . and hit menopause.
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Hi, Sally --
I can relate. I posted about a very similar thing awhile back --
here on my blog.
But, I did have my last one at age 42 ... so, you never know ....
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Well, you know, I'd been considering a novena to St. Elizabeth . . . maybe when we finish our Assumption one. Lately when we pray the Angelus at lunchtime, and we say, "Behold the handmaid of the Lord/Be it unto me according to thy word," that's what I think of. I can remember praying that when I was unexpectedly pregnant at a time when we'd just had a baby and were broke and for all kinds of reasons it seemed a disaster (ask me how I came to believe in openness to life . . . ). Anyway, I was struck the other day by the irony that I was now really praying for peace in God's will, if that will were for us NOT to have any more children.
Oh well -- this is literally the only thing that I have a hard time with in getting older. Now I understand why mothers start to hunger to be grandmothers.
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SallyT wrote:
I was now really praying for peace in God's will, if that will were for us NOT to have any more children.
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Yes, that's really at the bottom of it all ... whatever He wants. We're called to give our fiat to whatever He wills for us ....
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Interestingly, I haven't been able to find a St. Elizabeth novena. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, yes; St. Elizabeth-mother-of-John-the-Baptist, no. I even googled Hannah, Sarah, any other biblical old-barren-woman-gets-miracle figure I could think of. (Not that Hannah in the Bible was old -- just childless, which I certainly am not, anyway!). Perhaps this is God's way of telling me to give it a rest?
Has anyone else phased into menopause this early? I'll be 43 in November, and when I was 40 and had a 1-year-old, I assumed I still had a lot of time left. Things have been irregular, with some skipped months, and some wacky cycles, for the past two years, but now it's been two months and counting, and I know I'm not expecting, and when I told my gynocologist, she just nodded and went, "Mmm-hmmm, you can expect a lot more of this for a while" . . . and when I took a little online perimenopause quiz some time back, it told me that my symptoms were "moderate to severe," and that I wasn't doing enough to "support myself." Ha! I guess eating breakfast would help, for a start. But I also hope and pray that, you know, this is not the way one goes on feeling forever.
*sigh* I'm really not being very much of a saint about this.
Pax,
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Sally, about six years ago (when I was almost 37) I began experiencing irregular cycles--breakthrough bleeding, heavy clotting, etc. After some research I began taking natural progesterone cream and red raspberry capsules. My cycles have returned to normal and the pms symptoms lessed in severity. I've recommended the same course of treatment to many friends and they've experienced the same relief.
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I had my latest baby at age 46. My periods are still regular. I do worry about menopause. I have silly thoughts that I somehow will be less of woman. I know it's silly but I know when I can't have any more children for sure I will be very sad about it.
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Well since I posted in apr. I began the wild yam cream again and it smooths out my terrible PMS and gets my cycle back . however since my last miscarriage last fall I have had terrible cramping and excessive bleeding during my period . So I began red rasp, red clover , nettle tea with false unicorn and cramp bark . I just added birch leaves .I think my uterus was really tired out and the doctors just say keep taking meds or go on birth control ! anyway I thought I'd drink the tea to strengthen my uterus and it really seems to work I have no cramping and the bleeding was back to normal even less than before .
I'm not sure about concieving .I'd love to but just to be healthy and be the Mum & Granny I've been blessed to be is alright too .
Much Love , Roxie
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"After some research I began taking natural progesterone cream and red raspberry capsules. My cycles have returned to normal and the pms symptoms lessed in severity."
I've been researching this, too, though my symptoms tend in the other direction: 3-month-long cycles, and lighter and lighter and shorter and shorter periods. When I ran this by my gynecologist, she said, "Well, that's normal." From everything I've read, I'm gathering that "normal" after 40 is "anything goes." But I've been thinking the progesterone cream might be worth a try . . .
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