I'm 42. I'm currently seeing an ob/gyn. All I know is that my periods used to be three days long and light and now they're six to seven days long with heavy bleeding, cramping and intense nausea before, during and a couple days after! It's awful. The nausea has started interfering with my life! I've had to cancel appointments. One month we went to a concert two days after my period and I spent the entire concert trying NOT to puke in the bathroom, so it ruined the whole thing for me.

I'm definitely still growing leg hair (ugh!), my periods are erratic but I always get them once a month, I haven't had any hot flashes, I'm so frickin horny, like I'm going through puberty again or something (sorry for THAT tidbit of tmi, but I'm just saying), I get bad PMS before my period, my head hair is thinning, I've lost a measly TEN pounds since January (though day before last my husband told me it looked like I'd lost a few pounds).

Ugh. I'm losing my damn mind! I don't know wtf is going on with me! My GP told me that in your forties your period can get weird? At the ob/gyn appointment they asked me a TON of questions. I'm getting a pelvic ultrasound on Monday. And she said if everything looked fine we'd figure something out.

So I don't know if I'm peri. I don't know what's going on with me. I feel like I'm going through adult puberty or something. It sucks.

I'm going to go pounce on my husband now. Lol.