Yay, ltg!

I have no idea where I stand wrt menopause, peri or otherwise. How do you even know?

If you've always had regular periods and then they become wonky (lasting a long time, being longer apart and then suddenly shorter apart etc) that's considered peri

Mine went from wonky to 28 days consistent as heck. Also they got super heavy.

I have the implant currently. I'd skipped two periods (not sequentially) and both times I was in pregnant scare mode. So non-hormonal birth control went off the table. Hopefully when we remove the implant in four years, I'll actually be in menopause.

Dang. Went to pick up lunch and on the way back saw a grass fire a mile or so fro my house. It hadn't been there when I left and I am just hearing sirens now, so it must have started recently. It's the other side of the railroad tracks from me so I feel like the immediate danger is still pretty low, but yikes.

My handy dandy Watch Duty app shows the fire as "Monitoring-Information Only" and I haven't eard more sirens, so I think this is actually a zero alarm fire and may already be out

That’s a relief. No fires California!

It was some unexpected excitement for February! Driving along peacefully, seeing a column of black smoke and trying to guess where it is, deciding it's way off to the south, actually realizing that is close enough to the road that I can see flames and getting home before the fire trucks even arrive. Very weird. But ultimately fine. I can't even see smoke anymore, although I can smell it. There are still vernal pools in the fields so I doubt it ever had much chance of spreading.

Timelies all!

Haven't had hot flashes, but definitely having weird cycle length/duration, and heavy flow. I'll be 55 in April, and I am tired of all this.

My periods started getting super regular around the time I turned 40. I haven't been using a period tracker but when I was the time between would shorten for a few months , then I'd have like 4 extra days and then they'd shorten again and then be a few days "late" but the time decreasing over all. I think through that whole time I went from over 40 days to right around 26 days before they started getting further apart again.

For awhile I had hot flashes but then I haven't but I'm also hot most of the time anyway so it's hard to figure out. I may give that supplement a try and see if it helps.

This time my body played a horrid trick on me I had 3 very light days and I thought I was done but that was just some weird prologue because I had kinda heavy for another 4 days.

Huh. That's the same hormone that the ovulation test strips look at. Looks like people do use them to test for menopause, although "there is poor correlation with symptoms" which sounds on-brand for uterus-related medicine

and I just had a little mishap getting up from my computer and accidentally snapped the cord on my headset.

2023 is just a bunch of ducks nibbling away. I got a replacement plan so that is fine I just have to actually go to get a new headset. It's the little things...

Mine went from wonky to 28 days consistent as heck.

As you know, us having conversed about this a lot, same same (the age coincided with the removal of the Mirena, though, and it had been a long time since I'd had an actual period at that point). They're now they're less consistent again. No hot flashes, but everything's annoying.