Speech and Language Practitioner
Plucking hair out of chin
Riding bike to end of promenade
I live with all men. It’s quite nice to talk about the menopause to someone who wants to listen without feeling like I’m over egging it. I’ve got lots of friends going through it and we’re like, “could this be it and could that be it?”
I’ve always been an early riser. I really enjoy that first coffee of the day; I go upstairs and sit in my chair and read a book.That’s valuable time, my concentration is better first thing, and nobody else gets up at that time.
I think I’m peri, I thought I’d stopped my periods but then I got another one. I’m now 53, I started my periods at 17 - late because I had anorexia - but you get a finite amount of eggs don't you? I sort of cruised through it, and then realised I was getting quite angry a couple of days before my period. Now I’m absolutely wiped out the day before, I never know when it’s going to come, it used to be regular
I went to see someone about my heavy periods. They asked me if I wanted to be cauterised inside, but I want to know when I’m having periods. I've been a bit grumpy since I’ve been 50 because my dog died and then my mum had to go into a home. You start to feel like “am I blaming everything on the menopause?” I’ve met people who are just not sleeping and if that happened to me I’d be straight on the phone and on HRT
I can remember the moment when I realised I had to let something go. I was 48 and in a yoga class, we were doing a breathing exercise and I just started crying and thought I had to let youth go. I’d just been doing a play in London and had to accept that that wasn't happening anymore, I’m living here now.Things happen at the same time. If you’ve got kids they're grotty teenagers and your parents might be getting old. My mum went on HRT; she got dementia…not sure if there’s a connection there? My friend who got breast cancer was told not to go on it. So you wonder don't you?
I met some friends last Friday and had a few glasses of wine. On Saturday I was absolutely wiped out. I thought “well I obviously can’t drink anymore”, and then Sunday my period started. You think “have I become this grumpy person”? or,” will it change?”.You’ve got to hold on to the fact that it will change hopefully, but then nobody talks about how much does come back after you’ve been through it. Do you still have short term memory loss or does your memory come back? Women need to talk about it more.