Hello CLKD. Thank you for this reply. A lot of really helpful suggestions here.
Coincidentally my employer ran a menopause awareness session last week, and classified menopause as "one day in your life". That day, 12 months and one day after your final period, and everything else is either peri or post. I'm most definitely peri.
My Mum was 70 when she died, but had been living with cancer for 4 years or so. Pandemic had put paid to access to local smear clinics, but I'm pleased to say I was tested last autumn with nothing to worry about for another few years, or until there were inexplicable changes.
Also at that awareness session they shared the 34 recognised physical, psychological, digestive, vasomotor, oral and nervous system symptoms. I have quite a number, mostly low to moderate level and manageable, but things I would never have attributed to perimenopause. I have a lot to learn, and this space seems like a great resource to do exactly that.
Thanks again,
Deb
peri-menopause can be a time of uncertainty. Menopause - the last period - is natural but sometimes that can be overwhelming in the years leading to that final bleed.
Some find that keeping a mood/food/symptom diary of use. MayB decide which symptom you would like to ease first.
How old was your Mum ....... it's a difficult one which is why keeping up with smear testing is important.
We have threads on everything, sometimes we talk about menopause ;-). "Doing Stupid Things" and "There's a Strange Woman in. my House" will raise a giggle. Ask away, nothing is OTT here.
Brown round. Make notes. Do read the Vaginal atrophy thread. If U don't get any joy from your GP ask for a referral to a specific NHS Menopause Clinic.
