Periods are the worst part about no longer having an IUD.
Jayne: What're you gonna tell the others? Mal: About what? Jayne: About why I'm dead. Mal: Hadn't thought about it. Jayne: Make something up. Don't tell 'em what I did.
'Ariel'
Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
P.M. Marc - Dec 05, 2016 11:09:22 am PST #28226 of 30002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
beekaytee - Dec 05, 2016 3:43:05 pm PST #28227 of 30002
Compassionately intolerant
Edit: Give it up, body! We'll be 56 in two months, there ain't no baby coming out of this factory!
I'm 56 and have only been period free for about 8 months.
I'm amazed by how NOT different I feel.
Aims - Dec 05, 2016 3:56:02 pm PST #28228 of 30002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I have no internal/chemical BC choices open to me right now. So, it's condoms when IT happens again. If it ever does. Which, I have no real hope for in the near future.
I've considered having the ablation done and being done with it, but I just ... can't yet. It might be really stupid. It might be really, really stupid. But ... I'm just not ready to let go of that yet.
Connie Neil - Dec 05, 2016 4:55:10 pm PST #28229 of 30002
brillig
I'm amazed by how NOT different I feel.
Yeah, as I was growing up, THE CHANGE was this dreaded fate hanging over every woman, and I don't think I'm feeling any different.
Strix - Dec 06, 2016 5:54:52 am PST #28230 of 30002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I've been sans period for 7 years now, and stopped estrogen treatment a year ago.
My skin is a little drier, and the hot flashes and sweats were totally disgusting, but so much better than the lady parts of doom. I do not miss you at all, uteruovaries!
askye - Dec 06, 2016 8:44:13 am PST #28231 of 30002
Thrive to spite them
I wish Mom would understand that laughing when I tell her something related to therapy or my progress is not helpful.
Even if what I say sounds weird.
Friday I was freaked out about my car but not as much as I would have been in the past and it was kind of disconcerting and uncomfortable. Which sounds weird, I know, but it's a big deal.
WindSparrow - Dec 06, 2016 8:55:21 am PST #28232 of 30002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
I'm sorry your mom doesn't get how serious some of that stuff is for you, askye.
Oh! Speaking of menopause stuff, on my Thanksgiving call with my mom, I told her I was going longer between periods and having hot flashes occasionally. She told me that taking Vitamin E supplements helped her a lot with hot flashes, like disappeared them entirely. I have laid in stock of some Vit. E, and started taking them. It's been less than a week, so it's hard to tell if they are pemanently banished.
sj - Dec 06, 2016 9:39:48 am PST #28233 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Omg! How is the 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month such a hard concept?
askye - Dec 06, 2016 10:07:25 am PST #28234 of 30002
Thrive to spite them
Thanks Andi.
I get that's it's kind if ridiculous but it's also..just some attempt at understanding off the bat.
So for the past few years my periods have been "irregular" for me - which means they've become really regular and slightly heavier.b Seriously after most of my life of getting 2 or 3 a year this once a month thing sucks.
erin_obscure - Dec 06, 2016 10:38:49 am PST #28235 of 30002
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
I have trouble with the concept of Thursday, just, as a day. But I'm weird.