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Blueberrybook · Mar 17, 2025, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Crazy Hitch

Thanks so much. When I go to the store this weekend I’ll stock up on some cucumbers and tomatoes etc for my lunch and buy an orange or two.

I’m 46 soon to be 47. My gp prescribed some perimenopause pill or other that I don’t take. I don’t like the links to breast cancer so I don’t take it. And I know before she prescribed Wegovy she asked if I was on it because there’s some type of interaction or other on it.

So you're about my age. I just turned 47. Yeah being in perimenopause can def. cause issues with your periods. Mine still turn up every 28 days but just are super light. I had wondered if you were younger, in your 30s or something with PCOS the pill might be beneficial but at 46, I just don't know. Like you said the links to breast cancer. And I know the hormones on the regular pill made it seem like I had bipolar and borderline and mixed and all sorts of SHYT. So I'm not going on hormones if I can help it even if I have had what I think were a couple of hot flashes AND am losing the hair on my head at a rate faster than it's growing in. At least I'm blonde, the gray shows less.

You really should add an exercise routine, boring as it is. And who cares if students see you walking? Wear headphones and just crank up the music so you don't hear. Or there's the trick of walking in the dark. Not the safest, but I absolutely love it. My eyes get sensitive to light, part of just being blue and partly from the Seroquel I think. I LOVE night walking. Not the safest, but maybe you have somewhere it is possible. Or try the pilates vidoes or treadmill. It's hard to start exercising but after sticking with it a week or two, you start noticing the benefits. And it WILL increase your metabolism.

I think @Tart Cherry Jam has talked some about exercise changing her body shape even if her weight hasn't changed as much as she'd like? Though maybe by now she's lost more; some of her workouts would have done me in!