I'm going through menopause the weird way. I had a hysterectomy 13 years ago and so without periods menopause is just a lot of guessing, symptom monitoring and hormone testing. I have had a big uptick in hot flashes lately so I think things are moving. (I'm having one now. Yuck. Why do I shower at night?). It's really important I get through it as fast as possible because I need to be on a med to reduce my breast cancer risk but it's for post-menopausal women.

I had the extremely heavy bleeding before my hysterectomy. I remember being at work and changing overnight thickness pads every couple of hours. I'm sure if I'd used regular pads I'd have been bleeding through in an hour but I didn't have the way to risk that at work.

I do not miss periods. I do wish I had something I could see as a way to track my hormones but I'd never go through the 2 years before my hysterectomy (done for heavy bleeding) again.