OK, who would be first to sign up for this?

I am going to add horrid insomnia to the list of new issues... symptoms.. whatever. I have trazadone but I wake up as soon as it wears off and can't get back to sleep or it takes forever for me to feel sleepy.

And I'm caught in be cycle of not enough sleep so more caffeine to get through the day day but then I can't sleep because too much caffeine so it repeats. Tryin to break that today.

And my brain is going hat thing where I try to sleep, I start to fall asleep and then

BAM!! remember how you happy you were in Vermont you totally screwed that up..and then alternating with AND miserable. Why are you thinking about it like that ...oh wait we're tired ok go to sleeepp..

And 5 seconds later

So if you'd just made better decisions when you were 20 you wouldn't be in this place now...

Ha. I, too, am enjoying perimenopause. I'm sorry that it's been rough for you, askye.

Actually, it's not been *terrible* for me. Not great, but given that pregnancy is still in my recent memory, miles better than that. The worst part about it is that it started in May(? June? IDK), and so I spent two months terrified that I might be pregnant again. So much money spent on pregnancy tests, and the women working at the Walgreen's down the street were starting to comment (Peanut charms them, apparently).

The only good part of menopause is the no-more-periods-forever. I had random hot flashes for years and I thought I was prepared but now my hot flashes could power New York. Hook me up to a battery and solve the energy crisis. I'm glad to wear a mask because no one can see how red my face gets.

I am going through this too. This month I had the cramps and other symptoms but very little "flow". Which is a new thing. Before that my periods were coming closer and closer and really heavy. I don't have hot flashes so much, but the NIGHT SWEATS are terrible, and I just in general am hot. Before COVID, I was in a very uncomfortable meeting in a very small room, and my Boss thought she was upsetting me and I was like "I am so hot I just want to crawl out of my skin, so that is really all I am thinking about"

It hasn't been the worst ever it's just.. annoying and making me wonder what will come next. It's kind of happening in various waves too .

I am hot all the time too Sophia! I mean I've always been hot natured but it's gotten to be just ... I never feel comfortable. And I know that the part of the store I am in is warmer than the other parts but it seems almost unbearably stuffy and warm all the time.

I've been wearing dresses to work every day because if I wear pants I get way too overheated. And I have been thinking "well when it doesn't get over 80 maybe I can start wearing pants again" but now I 'm thinking I just need to buy a few more light weight dresses to wear through the fall.

Today I resorted to over using the hand sanitizer that we have and letting it evaporate on my arms to feel a little cool.

I do remember icing the back of my neck and running my wrists under cold water to try and cool down. It has been a really long time since I got an actual hot flash though.

I still have an occasional hot flash but these days the office is SO cold that I have to wrap up when I'm not having one. It seems that it's always one extreme or another, with nothing in the middle.

Re: Team Perimenopause, I got my damn period early today. It can just go away any time now. Sheesh.

And now my husband is taking his life in his hands by reading me the names of all the car washes in like a 10-mile radius. (Jesus, as I was typing this, he switched to telling me how far away they are. "That one is 2.3 miles away," etc. I might need to stab him.)

I've always wanted a human wash designed like a car wash. Just plop myself down on the belt and run through the rinse, soap, dry cycle, if time add the massage.