I just turned 53 and I'm almost through a cycle free year. I've already done a few 7 month spans in the last three and a half years. My doctor told me not to count brown spotting...yay for that. That happened last month. In my other 7 month spans, that was the onset of a real period, but this time it was just brown spotting. Although, once it was a month later that my period came...oh no!! Fingers crossed! I find that I'm more impatient lately. I'm hoping that once I'm past the year, my emotions will start to get back to normal? I've not been too bad though, but during my 'change' I've been through a few monumental life changes. Remarriage, cross country move, living far from sons (one's a 6 hour drive the other a 6 hour flight), new job and became a grandmother to name a few. I haven't really felt the effects until recently though...maybe it's all adding to my menopausal stress? I've been running for over a year now and that seems to help a lot of things...but I really would like to not feel so angry. |
