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?
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.