Think I am the oldest lady on here, so yes I have 'been there done that ' and come out the other side.....How do you know when it's over? ......you dont have any more symptoms.
The symptoms will just get get less and less until it's over.
As has been said everyone is different.....personally, I had a hysterectomy when I was 41 and that threw me straight into the menapause....mine was controlled with HRT, but I still had nasty hot flushes until I was about sixty
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