Menopause
About 75 percent of women experience hot flashes during menopause, making them the most common symptom experienced by menopausal women. Hot flashes can occur during the day or at night. Some women may also experience muscle and joint pain, known as arthralgia, or mood swings.
Am I going mad?
Psychological and emotional symptoms are common around the menopause, but the causes are complex. Anxiety, depression, sadness, difficulty concentrating, overreacting to minor upsets, anger and irritability, forgetfulness and mood swings are all typical psychological problems. Hormonal changes are thought to be responsible for a proportion of these symptoms, but it is hard to be certain which symptoms are hormonal in origin, and which are due to other changes in a woman’s life around that time.
I think this is most peoples perception of the menopause, including mine to be honest (when I was younger).
You know it’s coming and that one day in the distant future, you will go through the ‘Change’.
But I had absolutely NO IDEA that it would be so incredibly awful and so very hard to deal with.
I guess the only good thing that came out of it all is that I no longer give a fuck about anything and I’m simply going to grow old very disgracefully!