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...on the list of things I would like to be well and truly rid of...

OF COURSE

Also the lovely bonus "or should I be hunkering down with prophylactics for a migraine attack?"

*raises hand in 1973* And they’re all just like hypothyroid so you can just not get that treated until the labs come back.

Estrogen shed from my daughter messed with my perimenopause so bad! I nipped that in the bud by getting a hysterectomy! (Which solved several problems I was having even as said problems had gone undiagnosed.)

I use the estrogen cream already!!

Ahaha *SOB*

I used to say, "I blame the schools," at moments like these, but too many people receive that seriously now, and Washington's "wooden teeth" notwithstanding, that seems unfair. Maybe I should just start blaming Eisenhower?

oof

Am I filled with rage, despair, and fatigue because of hormones? Politics? That there has not been a single week since January 15th when everyone in my family has been healthy?

Gotta love the "is it allergies, COVID, general body fuckery, stress response" game.

I had COVID for the first time in 2022. Had Long COVID for a year without realizing. (I was still functional enough to go to work... just barely.) The 2023 booster made a huge difference. But... yeah. It's so hard to tell what's still post-COVID stuff and what's "I'm a woman in my mid-40s" stuff.

No menopause here as I don’t have the equipment, but I feel this. Been playing a game of “is this a heart attack, anxiety attack, long covid, or just a natural reaction to everything” all year myself.

If we’d elected Kamala we’d have more clarity, I’m guessing

I mean, what else are q-tips for, anyway?

ENT told me swirled at the entrance of the ear canal is fine just don't insert the tip and I'm still cracking up.

I SAID, ITCHY EARS ARE A PERIMENOPAUSE THING. Sorry, I forgot we’re all getting older and also evidently shoving things in our ears to scratch them.

I fucking hate it lol

This is the only way you find out things about perimenopause. (Or a lady tells you in a public restroom somewhere.) I don’t make the rules.

yep, this is how I knew

Yep, thought it was my allergies upping the ante, but no! I can also smell an open bag of tortilla chips from anywhere in the house now.

I’m guessing they don’t have a spray for whatever the hell is happening in my brain that would also make me lose the bottle?

I think I started out with normal hormonal itchy ears, but it turned into eczema. Thankfully allergy meds and lots of moisturizer helps. 😭

I am so tired of the way peri makes Everything More. (And the way it spawns Random Exhaustion.)

I took a survey recently for people who have not ever had Covid and it became clear pretty fast that a person with a heart condition and in menopause was gonna mess with the results. Why yes I do have all these symptoms but not because of long covid

I desperately need this.

I don't understand the brain fog. Like I did silly stuff when I was pregnant but not like locking my keys in the car multiple times or forgetting the water (?) in the rice cooker

And ä bunch of us had late-in-life kids and are both going through perimenopause and covid at the same time we were dealing with postpartum recovery which is harder on older mothers.

*laugh*sob*

If it's menopause, estrogen supplementation will probably help, so there's that?

Followed.

Cold flashes blew my mind. Nobody said anything about cold flashes.

Bree, please add me to the support group. Because I could use the support, dammit!

I recently had an ear infection and got antibiotic and anti-fungal drops. I’ve had itchy ear canals since my late 20s (41 now) and they’re just…better? ENT told me to rinse occasionally with 1:1 vinegar and isopropyl (or 1:1:1 w water) to keep the microbiome neutral and so far so good. Worth a shot!

My wife can very much relate 🥲

Fellow member of the Ear Hell club. WHYYYYYYY

["We've Never Really Researched the Female Body" video]

And then you get BC and your meds include hormone blockers, and it's menopause a second time...

Mine's pretty stable these days but keels over a bit more roughly every 18-24 months. It's still the first thing my GP checks whenever I go in with something new, just in case I've missed something obvious given the slooooowness of brain it causes me.

Lol!! Exactly!!!

the xennial starter pack

Oooh, I need to join ALL of these. (1982)

This put tea into my sinuses because of the type of sort of laugh it provoked. Thanks?

1973 checkin in and me no likey….

Nice!

I forgot my own phone number once. I've had the same phone number for over 20 years at this point, it's our default for grocery store points, and I was standing there staring at the keypad going "uh...shit what do I enter here" at checkout

really?! wow! (i get that! so much!).

Exact same here, such a gut punch. Solidarity ❤️‍🩹

76. Hit full menopause during pandemic. Didn't notice....

Can I join (Aug 74 baby in perimenopause)?

Is my adhd worse because of menopause or stress? Who knows?

Oof, I’m in this post and I don’t like it. :(

You can roll some types of cancer in there for funsies too! What I thought were perimenopause symptoms were symptoms of endometrial cancer. Now? Who knows what's wrong! Am I sick or just postmenopausal? 😛

Yeah, I didn’t think so. Didn’t hurt to ask.

1978 checking in (with an already existing GAD diagnosis)

Saaaaame.