Perimenopause: How old were you when

I was early 40s, it lasted for ten years. Hot flashes and just being a sweaty mess, mood swings, gaining weight, mental fog and I was quite the bitch a lot of the time. My husband and daughter were very happy when I returned to normal. 

I should have known it was going to be that way. I had zero problems with my periods over the years but being pregnant just sucked. I puked 24/7 for nine months. I hated being pregnant. In the end it was definitely worth it as my daughter is the best thing that I've ever produced but I never wanted to be pregnant again, ever.


However, my sister didn't have any problems, just one day her periods stopped. She also breezed through her pregnancies and loved being pregnant. Everyone is different. 

According to my doctor, I was right on average - 51. It really was not all that unbearable for me. Hot flashes mostly. I did not take any hormone or estrogen medication. If I remember correctly, no OTC helped at all. But, it wasn’t that bad. Lasted about 2 years for me.

I'm 51 and started having them around age 48.  They peaked last year.  Now they seem to be fading down a good bit, not totally though.  

Last year we were in Vegas after Christmas and the temps were in the upper 40's and 50's.  I walked around the whole trip during the days with short sleeves.  And was still too warm. It was constant for a few weeks there.  Ugh.

I'm 48 and I've been having hot flashes for two years now. They've gotten progressively worse. I still have a period once a month but they are irregular.

I’ve never had one. I turn 50 in May.

I just discussed the results of my blood test yesterday with my doctor who confirmed I was in Peri menopause. I’m 51. I feel like I’ve been having some sort of symptoms for the past couple of years - changes to my period and now with the last few months, irregularly periods. I skipped
My last two periods and I am here for that. I am gaining weight despite my eating and working out not changing. I have never had a hot flash though. I so hope I can skip that - they sound miserable. I feel like I deserve to skip them- three pregnancies with throw up through all
9 months and really long heavy periods my whole
Life. Just let me have no hot flashes please.

I'm 45 and started in the past year. Hot flashes, insomnia etc. But I have an IUD (treatment for adenomyosis) so my periods are sort of regulated. I'm on a waiting list for a hysterectomy but the plan is to keep my ovaries so I don't go screeching into menopause.

Peri menopause, started about 43 with very heavy periods, then anxiety, not sleeping, irritability, forgetfulness, difficulty remembering words when talking and lastly hot flushes at 51. HRT has changed my life, I feel almost normal again.

I was 38, when I had my first hot flash. It was was random and very little (a couple a year).

The worst thing for me, was the period insanity (irregular schedule, no schedule, no rhyme or reason, it would show up, it would not show up, sometimes two days, sometimes fourteen days.....and everything in between, just random and all over the place timing wise.
Then have it the floods began. Had I not heard about "the floods" from a couple colleagues.....I would have gone to the ER thinking I was hemorrhaging.

I entered full menopause (no more period) in April of 2017.
Since then weight gain, fluctuating weight, body shape change (much more curvy). 
A lot of night sweats and warm all the time, but very little day time hot flashes.

Since menopause, the worst thing for me has been my sensitivities has increased exponentially. I have had more allergic reactions(welts all over or isolated to contact area) to things. 
My sound sensory levels have become more intolerable. I wear earplugs quite often, multiple sounds at once(overhead music, loud conversations on speaker phone--video watching--video game noises--multiple conversations around me--etc...) send me into sensory overload. Smaller waiting rooms are the worst.
My need for quiet time to decompress from noise, has become mandatory.

Itching all over is another symptom of menopause that I have experienced a lot of.

I’m 57 and don’t think I’ve ever had a hot flash. A couple warm flashes maybe, but nothing like what I’ve heard others describe. My mom says she never had any either.

They started occasionally when I was 49, I'm 50 now and they've really ramped up. I'm about to be 51 soon. The thought of doing this for another decade is pretty disheartening.

I can't take HRT so I will just have to suffer. I did get something to help with the nighttime sweats called a BedJet, I made a thread about it yesterday. So far it's wonderful.

I had a hysterectomy at 48 and hadn't had any hot flashes. I did have severe PMS starting around 40.

I stopped having periods when I was 50. The only time I can recall ever really being hot, sweaty and miserable was after delivering my kid (at 43) and sweating out all the excess water I had retained during my pregnancy. Once I was past that I sometimes get warmer than I want to be at night and have to flip over or fold my blanket back for a while, but never really soaked to the skin sweaty like my friends would complain about and never during the day unless I was actively doing something that would normally make anyone sweat. My friends would literally walk around with terry cloth washcloths in their purses to mop the sweat off their face and neck during the day when they would get a hot flash, and I’ve never had to deal with that.

I’m 52 and the only symptom I have is irregular periods. Oh, and perhaps irritability. It’s hard to tell 😬