How Do You Know if You are Outta Eggs? (Menopause)

I've heard of menopause symptoms and periods that come and go, night sweats, etc...

But I just stopped having my periods (just turned 50 last week) in March. Is that normal to just stop having periods with no other symtoms?

In other words, am I just outta eggs?

Women have different symptoms during each stage from none to every single one in the book. Best to go and get a hormone check at the doctors and they can tell you where about you are along this phase.

yeah well I wouldn't try anything funny (like sleeping with a man) if I were you, it might start things back up, if I remember correctly I kinda sputtered to a stop, spotting occasionally, before I really stopped for a year, then you're good. I never had night sweats or hot flashes. I never had kids either, I don't know if that makes a difference. Also i'm kinda chubby, and fat "makes" or stores estrogen, so I wonder if that also was a reason I didn't experience physical symptoms.

About 7 years ago (at the age of 45) my periods started to become hit or miss ... I'd have a couple, miss a couple and so on ...

Based on my limited education (ie. what I've read in medical and scientific books) ...

I figured that one side of my ovaries had simply quit producing eggs and that the months I had no period I hadn't ovulated due to that side being empty ...

I am happy to announce that I haven't had any periods at all since February of this year and am hoping that it's over for good ...

As far as hot flashes go, I had some rather intense ones off and on throughout the changes I've experienced over the past 7 years ... The most intense were shortly before and after I stopped altogether in February ...

Those, too, have now abated and I'm really kind of agog at how lucky I've been considering all the horror stories I've heard about what other people go through ...

Nevertheless, I can honestly say I'll gladly take having hotflashes over having periods any day, week or month ...

Wishing you a mild instead of wild transition ...

,
Pfrog

My mother had a full hysterectomy; her ovaries were removed to, a yr after having myself. So she'd have been about 32yrs old but a good 15yrs later she started exhibiting the classic signs of menopause. She saw her doctor and he confirmed she actually was starting her menopause. Apparently her doctor explained to her that your menopause is actually related to the hormones in the brain too, and had to put her or H.R.T which was a gr8 relief all round. The human body really is a weird and wonderful thing.

I have been having an achey-ache in my left side, I thought I might have a hernia, but the last time I had a pain like this, where it felt like a 6 foot 1x2 was sticking thru my left hipbone, was about ten years ago? and the gyn said it was a "little" endometriosis and I told her I thought I was ovulating on the left, which only happened a couple three times a year. Seein's how I am now well into menopause, I googled ovulation and menopause in an attempt to self-diagnose and found this interesting little titbit, from 2007. So all you post-menopausal boo-boo babies can now consider yourself "documented"?! Maybe in another couple thousand years, someone will bother to document my post-menopausal mittelschmerz.


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/17292899/
CONCLUSION(S): This is the first report of ovulation in a postmenopausal woman. This observation opens the door to new questions about the sensitivity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis in menopause as well as about ovarian senescence.

update: I am feeling better. my T was a little worried that I didn't go to the doctor, but as this was mostly over the wkend, and it wasn't on the appendix side, and I wasn't running a fever, and I wasn't nauseated and I was pooping okay and I didn't feel any muscle strain or odd squishy things poking out, and I have had a big change in my diet recently that includes much more non-organic protein (canned chicken) and dairy (yogurt) and guac, who knows what that's doing to my internals. Except for this one pain, I do feel a lot better and have lost a little wgt.