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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

Omg! How is the 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month such a hard concept?

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.

I have trouble with the concept of Thursday, just, as a day. But I'm weird.

I've been off bcp for...more than 2 years now. My periods are just now starting to normalize and still very unpleasant. Prob doesn't help that i've had 2 expelled IUDs and a failed implant in the last year. Condoms forever...or till I finally get fed up enough for another surgery.

Occurred to me recently that the female body is not a closed system. Vagina - cervix - uterus - fallopian tubes -...abdominal cavity. Now, sure, between the usual tiny cervix opening and the fallopian tubes being teeny and actively moving out...the chance of anything getting all the way through is pretty much nil. But still. Not a closed system. That kinda freaks me out. Another pro for hysterectomy: closing up that shit.