Yay! I was hoping to meet someone else.
I'm partnered to someone who just basically went "oh! gee! I guess I'm in/almost done with menopause."
On certain days I hate her. Not really, but still.
I'm getting every stereotypical symptom under the sun and then some.
I was very sanctimonious in my 20's & 30's about the BS western medical establishment who was foisting un-natural hormones on women to "cure" a natural process, and was very anti-hormone. I was equally sanctimonious about women who used hormonal swings/PMS to excuse being nasty or hyper-emotional: Those women clearly just had no concept of self-control. Boy did the universe kick me in the butt for being that way!!
Finally a year ago, after trying every natural option I could try, plus antidepressants and all kinds of other things, I basically begged my doc for something to regulate my hormones. Among other things, it just wasn't good for my family's well being for me to decide several days a month that most people didn't deserve to live - or at least didn't deserve to be treated kindly, with respect, and with some measure of predictability and consistency.
So I'm basically ok when I'm on the hormones (ironically a low dose bcp) except for the killer insomnia, but if I forget them or try to go off it's pure misery for me and everyone around me. I resent having to be on them, but I despise how I feel and act when I'm not.
How has it been for you?
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