Perimenopause

It was not enough that I had to deal with infertility now in the beyond phase and only three years after Erynn's arrival, it appears I have started pre menopause. So far it has been a nightmare with burning hot flashes and almost everyone of the top 35 symptoms they list for perimenopause. Seriously, I already feel old enough and now this too. What is the most upsetting is that it appears that the medical profession has decided that the only way women should deal with this is by take hormone replacement therapy which often leads to fatal illnesses. I will not be going there. Not that I want to pick on men but most medical authorities are men and they have NO clue about how to deal with women and think that we are just making most of this stuff up and give us anti depressants. Well, I have complained enough but it appears now that I will get to share with you what happens as women go through this stage too. What is worse is that not one woman on either my mother or father's side of the family had really dealt with this because ALL of them have had a hysterectomy either very early or before the menopause symptoms were too bad. One of the many consequences of having children later in life is that you then have these issues while they are little girls. I want to put these kinds of things down here so that when she is older and hopefully I have forgotten the horror of them she can understand better what happens.