Happy Menopause
Aged 44 my periods stopped and I had a few months of hot flushes, particularly at night, the type where you wake up cold because you sweated so much your night clothes got soaked. But then that was it. All done, nothing more. The menopause was done! How? Why? What? This isn't a blog about menopausal symptoms. We are fortunately hearing much more about those, and rightly so. We are talking and sharing so much more than we ever did before and this is a good thing. I want to see if there are answers as to why I was let off so lightly. In my late teens and early twenties I had been suffering with endometriosis, a painful condition where tissue similar to that which lines the uterus, grows elsewhere, normally in the fallopian tubes, ovaries or tissue lining your pelvis. I didn't know what it was, not till I was in my 30s. I had joined the Office Training Corps whilst I was studying at University. Often on early morning PT I would be doubled over in pain lying on the changing room fl