Welcome Dancer9... you'll love it here. There are some wonderful women here.

So far in the perio/meno life period, I think I've come out on the other side with no real problems except the occasional night sweat. And so far, no drugs. And I can't really tell if I'm more irritable than usual because most dumb things irritate me anyway.

A couple of years ago though... I took our 'girl trip' to Santa Barbara. None of my friends had been there and I had told them how beautiful it was and how temperate the climate was.....yeah well, they had a heat wave - 106 I believe. And no air conditiong. ANYWHERE. I thought I would die. So, with no complaint from my girlfriends I ditched them one day while they were shopping, in search of some air conditioned business and ducked into the Santa Barbara Museum. It seemed like heaven at first and then I acclimated in about 20 seconds and the shower that seemed to come from my scalp just kept on coming. A woman came into the museum, took one look at me and headed over. She leaned close and just patted my arm and said "don't worry honey, it won't last forever."

So we're all sisters in the walk. So, don't worry honey, you'll come out of this fine.

DreamrKate