Over all for me it's better, I'm 55. But the antidepressants were the cause of my psychotic breaks and raging mania. I refused to take them about 10 years ago and improved considerably. Some of the anti psychotics I was on caused poly cystic problems and I had 1 and 1/2 of my ovaries removed that May be why I never had peri menopause but went straight to menopause after getting septic from an un diagnosed bladder infection. For some reason or another I had almost no problems with menopause and since then I have been relatively stable until my back surgery last year.

Most of my problems now are from the side effects of huge amounts of meds that I was on for years earlier. I'm young to have both osteoarthritis and severe bone loss, some of which might be from the medicines.