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[Elizabethrose]

  Qui moi? x

[Machair]

I think I have all these joys to look forward to! Still plenty of mucus and no periods for almost 3 months. I am sure one will be along soon! No flushes either so that's my clue to know it isn't all over yet! Feeling quite calm though today - could be due to a lovely lunch out to a place where hens just potter about round the tables.I'm happy as long as animals are somewhere nearby or water. Both are restful and calm the hormones.

[TheWorstWitch]

Hello - it's been suggested I pop my head in here and join you ladies! Obviously I bring virtual tea and chocolate hobnobs... 

All this is very new to me - been having symptoms for a couple of years but have literally only just finally put 2 & 2 together and made the connection that I might be able to do something about it in the last 6 weeks or so. I'm not always this slow....well, not mostly!

Machair I'm intrigued by your username - you have a Hebridean link somewhere along the line? And Southern Hebrides at that, I'm guessing?

[nearly50]

Welcome TheWorstWitch, if you're wanting someone to empathise with you on horrible bleeding, I'm your woman I will go and seek out your other thread and post there! Hope you'll keep posting here too, this thread keeps me sane.

[nearly50]

ER, I will look into getting new pyjamas, think that's a good idea. I'm down to 4.5 tog after never having anything lower than 13! I think it is the nightmares which are most difficult to deal with, as I find it hard to fall back asleep again after them.

How's your back? Are you back at the osteopath this week?

Sparkle, hope you didn't have to keep the hedgehog company last night. Are you taking magnesium now?

[Machair]

nearly 50 you might want to thank about getting a wool duvet. I bought one last year and it really is lovely- not too hot but cosy and cool in summer. I also have linen sheets from the company Sleep and Soak. Also I keep a bottle of Evian water spray or Avene or la Roche Posay (there are several makes) by my bed for hot nights and if I wake up I spray myself with that. I don't get many night sweats but am generally hotter so these help. I have also found that electrolyte solutions really work in the night if I wake up- eg Nuun, coconut water or even Energenc.  One of my sons used to live in Arizona and he had to drink these sorts of fluids to keep hydrated, it might be worth trying them as maybe your nightmares would improve.

[nearly50]

Machair, thanks for all that advice. My bedroom's always been really cool so I've never had to think about being too warm before.  It is an expensive business this menopause lark, isn't it?

[Elizabethrose]

Lovely to have you join us Theworstwitch!

Even a low tog was too much for me nearly50, if I can stay cool day and night I can better manage. I've ditched my daily uniform of Levis and an oxford shirt for loose linen. I HATE THIS HEAT!!

I was having a conversation with a group of friends on Sat many a little older than me. Somehow the subject of flushes came up and three ladies independently said they used to drink Horlicks just before bed, which helped them better sleep through or 'manage' the pesky adrenaline surges before the flushes. One was talking about the shocking nightmares she used to get and she said that the Horlicks helped calm those too. I have no idea whether it would help, work, whatever, but I've added some to my Ocado order. Anything is worth a try! Incidentally, whilst i have had vivid dreams throughout my life I only get nightmares with migraine. nearly50, keep a note of yours, could they be related to your silent migraine symptoms? Just a thought, especially if you're spotting again!

Back is easing thank you. The osteo was really tough last week, I was squealing like a piglet. He also used deep tissue needles to try to stimulate blood to the muscles. I had a trochanteric bursitis years ago that the muscles have really never fully recovered from. Now that was super painful when he was working on that. However, I think he has managed to calm the spasm and all feels painful but manageable. Back to see him tomorrow for the next round. Have to say, he really knows his stuff!

Love to you all x

[TheWorstWitch]

Nearly50 it's funny you should say that about the expense - it's already occurring to me that this is very much the case!   

I've taken to opening both bedroom and bathroom windows for an hour before bed - they're close to opposite one another across the hallway so it allows a breeze through and cools the room t least a bit. Problem is we're ground floor so I can't leave anything open overnight. Suspect upstairs are making a racket again too as I seem to routinely be waking for my first time each night at 1.30am at the moment - they've always gone quiet by the time I "come round" enough to listen though! v

[Elizabethrose]

Sparkle, people would pay a lot of money for that twitchy nerve thing! 

Fingers crossed that the Vagifem works it's magic: I feel as if I've bullied you though!  However, you'll never know unless you try. These are to make up for my manipulation! 

[Machair]

How are you doing nearly50 is it a period or just spotting?

[nearly50]

Hi Machair, couldn't even call it spotting really, hardly anything there but it is now the 6th day of it so it would be very unusual for me if it now turned into a period. Who knows though, all bets are off at this stage, aren't they? Pretty cold in Glasgow really so my flat is 16 degrees - hoping for a good sleep! How are you just now - everything quiet?

sparkle, I am taking the magnesium, think it gives me slight stomach cramp but am aware that I've had slow transit recently and it seems to be speeding things up (TMI alert)

TheWorstWitch, are you keeping taking the ibuprofen and do you think it is making a difference?

ER, it sounds like everything could be down to silent migraine, really interesting. I have never tasted Horlicks, should give it a go.

Hope you all have a lovely evening.

[Machair]

16 degrees in Glasgow- oh dear my daughter will be miserable as she lives there too and hates cold weather. I love Glasgow - one of my favourite places, my other daughter went to uni there. I love all the old buildings.

Sounds like the sort of periods I have had too - there but not really enough to call a period.

[Mbrown001]

Horlicks is something my mother starting drinking...in her 90's. She complained constantly that her carers didn't know how to make it.


Oh yuk...it's foul stuff really. I think I will always think of my mother if I smell it as I cleaned out her flask every morning.
Someone would have to pay me large amounts of money to drink it.

Now as for hot chocolate or maybe at a push Ovaltine I could take.

Night time hot drink for me in the winter is warm milk and Manuka honey. Normally helps.
I also have a lot of lavender scented things in the bedroom and DD bought me a lavender balm to rub on wrists and forehead to help with sleep.


Mrs Brown

[nearly50]

13 degrees outside I'm afraid 

Here's hoping I get a few more periods like this then, it'd be life changing. Sounds weird I know, but I had a proper realisation  today that this will end, before it just felt like something I told myself to make me feel better.

MBrown,  my mum would have an Oxo cube in hot water, now that's disgusting!