Menopause Matters

joyfull

Morning Peeps,

Oh Choille, you've maybe got Extreme Cabin Fever with a touch of Meno Madness and maybe a smidge of SAD. Seriously, hope you're OK, can you harness the energy with physical stuff ie. MORE wood collecting or bracing walks. Hopefully it's not still ice up north. Painters? for the caravan or house?

It's so mild here. I'm much better in mild weather, fewer aches and stuff.

Hello to other posters. Glad you survived xmas sort of in tact.

Collecting (soggy) avon catalogues today.

Good news re. our nasty Park Owner. The council have got an injunction against him further breaching his site licence with extra homes and selling holiday homes as 'residential'. The annoying bit is he has made heaps of dosh by already breaching the licence for the last 2 years, but the council don't want to evict anyone. Still, it's a result. I fear he will carry on though, as he's completely without conscience and a fine will be just a drop in the ocean compared the the sums of money he'll make by continuing his activities. Anyway, we're watching every move he makes, he can't blow his nose without it being noted and reported. Ha!

I keep carrier bags for my Avon deliveries & just realised that they're biodegradable and are turning into dust. Must sort it out.

Hippeechiq

joyfull wrote: »

Painters? for the caravan or house?
It's so mild here. I'm much better in mild weather, fewer aches and stuff.

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Not sure whether you're being facetious or not joyfull, but I think you'll find choille means she's got a period hun

And yes choille, I could rip anyones head off who crosses me when I have one - but I have always been like it when I have one, it's not something that's just happened with the onset of the menopause.

It's very mild down South, double figures temperature wise, by boy if I ain't sick to death of this damp, dismal, dreary weather. I honestly can't remember the last time I saw the sun, but I think it was before Christmas - I hate January with a passion, and it's the month I was born in too :rotfl: for me, if I'm going to get low, it'll be in January.

:grouphug: to Choille & Bronnie

joyfull

oops, sorry choille! never heard of 'got the painters in'.:o:o:o

choille

:easter_baSorry Joyful - Just a turn of phrase. Months since I had one, didn't expect to have another actually.

It is dismal weather but at least we got out today - the ice is nearly all away but it has bucketed down continually for 48 hours. I think some are now gonna be flooded out.

Just back from the physio & I have an old injury which I am rather pleased about - which sounds odd but I thought I had arthritis. So I have exercises to do & then go back in 3 weeks.

Had to go into Boots to pay for a perscription that had been posted out & the woman said that she's seen everyone this morning as this is the first that most people have been able to get out since before Christmas.

Hippy - I was allus a bit grumpy with PMT but this is much more so - could run amok with an axe almost.

It has been a long Winter & it's not over yet so yes, that doesn't help. It's been not good & It is a dismal time of year.:bdaycake:
Happy birthday Hippy - hope you can get yourself a treat. Be good to you - we should all be good to ourselves this year even if money is tight.

dogcat_2

Hello all,

I too hate January....such a dreary and drab month..never usually anything to look forward to. Its been very mild here, but has been pouring down for days...(and nights)!

Need to get over my allotment..havent been for ages..due to the weather...and Christmas. Still cant get over there, although I have bought some cheap bits and bobs for when I can.

I've actually been feeling ok for a while now on the meno front. I do have other probs. such as colitis and arthritis but hey.....at least not many flushes to add to them.

Hope you're all keeping well and flush free.:)

soupdragon10

Am slowly coming out the other side of this at 57 but still get the flushes though thankfully not as frequently. I am going to ask about osteoporosis as this is something my mother had, and I am concerned that this would increase my chances of breaks etc...

Hippeechiq

I haven't really got to the stage where my periods have stopped as such. They're just becoming further apart. My last one was very heavy, but the previous 3 were kind of non-events. Though I still had the foul mood and the cramps. And it's not so much that I get in a bad mood (as in low) it's more a bubbling rage inside me.

Glad to hear you just have an old recurring injury choille rather than arthritis - good news indeed.

Thank you for my birthday cake, but it's not my birthday until the 23rd.....I was just saying, that even though my birthday is in January, I still hate the month.

We've had the year from hell, we really have. My daughter is very ill with a depression type illness only much more complex, I lost my job in Jan 2010, and my car failed it's MOT in April 2010 and I can neither afford to repair or replace it, and even if I could, we can't afford to run a car anymore.

Things are extremely tight, so my Brother - bless him - sent me some Tesco vouchers that he's had converted to Restaurant Vouchers which can be spent in either Cafe Rouge, Bella Italia, Pizza Express and some other Italian restaurant - whose name escapes me - so that I can go out for a meal on my birthday for free (excluding drinks).

He's knows I wont take money, so this is his way around it - which was rather lovely of him I thought. We live over 250 miles apart and don't get to see each other much at all, so it makes it all the more special.

soupdragon I think we will all have osteoporosis when we've finished going through the change, wont we? as the decrease in our hormones affects the bodies ability to maintain calcium levels which in turn leads to bone thinning.

We've just got to try and make sure we don't fall as best we can - oh! and remember to get a razor for our beards :rotfl:

soupdragon10

:rotfl: I'm already competing with my OH for use of the razor! Doesn't osteoporosis affect some people more than others? I know my mother had tablets for it, but as this was after she broke her hip - it was a stable door and horse senario for her, and would like to avoid this if poss.

Really glad to have found this thread, I work with mostly younger people who have no idea what is in store for them

choille

Hi Dogcat - Glad you are feeling not too bad. I don't get any flushes at all these days - which is great as that did make it a restless night at times. I did wonder if it was because it was so cold but I hope they don't come back.

Hiya Soupdragon - I don't know about the bone thinning thing. I think all our bones start thinning as we age just some folks does even more so? Not sure.

Hi Hippy - I know the skint thing - it becomes a drag after a while. It is good that your brother is understanding. Sorry about your daughter - sometimes it seems that everything is a mountain to try and climb. It has been a pretty awful Winter again & just being able to walk about with out falling today has really helped & being able to bear being outdoors for more than just animal essentials although it seems to have been torrential rain for ages now - seems less fraught than spending all day in the caravan sitting down.

I've been trying to flog stuff on ebay but I'm not having too much sucess so far. I really am trying to declutter & get some pennies in the pot. I couldn't stand another Winter in here.

Well off to have a shave & then bed - only kidding.

Citygirl1

Hi, I am bringing up this subject again as I feel really gross this morning and have done for a while.

My aches and pains are getting more frequent, it hurts me to even take my jumper off or put my handbag on my shoulder sometimes. I am now feeling out of breath when I’ve hardly done anything. Is this the norm with the menopause? When I went to my doctor about it she said the pain is a frozen shoulder and gave me some strong anti inflammatory tablets which I didn’t take for long.

I feel irritable, impatience and about ninety when I am only forty nine.

Is this all hormonal or is my body going downhill?