Before the Stopping Starts (menopause)

[niyad]

2. I was always very fortunate. .cramps only one time (when I met the

outlaws, which should have warned me!) . No mood swings (NO, I do NOT have pms, I am ALWAYS a BItch!). Around age 40, I told a friend who was trying to scare me about how awful menopause would be that I would probably be in menopause 6 months or a year before I ever got around to noticing. Somewhere around 55 or 56 (cannot even remember) several friends and I were talking, and I realized I could not remember my last period. Like you, I finally concluded it was probably a year or more.

I have always known that mine was not the typical experience. I had a friend in high school who had such severe cramps, she was in bed for several days every month. Her f'n quack said there was nothing he could (would??) do, and, hey, the pains would stop when she got pregnant (she was 15 at the time!). Neither her parents nor mine would let me pay a visit to the f'n asshole. Apparently, they were worried about his possible demise. Cannot imagine why!!!!