I understand that certain medical procedures can kick-start perimenopause. But I’ve read people who post things like “I’ve been in [peri/]menopause for xx years…” and without something significant to indicate the starting point, how do you know? My symptoms started I have no idea when. For several years I’ve had issues that at first I attributed to other things. I’ve finally come to the conclusion that it’s perimenopause but how does anyone really know? Furthermore, to what extent does it matter?
I’m not sure I knew the first year or so myself. After not feeling like myself for a few years, the hair falling out… sex drive bottomed out overnight. seemed like I went through 3 years of a spiral before getting a name to it. Started when I was 41-42? My gyn thought it was too early. She was wrong. I’m 48 now and my current gyn thinks I’m “firing blanks” now.
Does “firing blanks” mean you still have your period but don’t ovulate?
I never understood what happens to the eggs - we get them all at once (whenever they arrive - puberty? birth?) but surely we don’t have as many periods and pregnancies as we have eggs? What happens to the rest of them, I wonder?
Yes about the firing blanks. That’s what my gyno thinks. He said my hormone levels are so low he doesn’t know why I still bleed.
gahh, I don’t know why doctors think that 41 is too early!