I want the ablation done. We just got insurance. I need to check if that is covered. Atleast the office visits before would be.

Kell, get in line! You are soooooo not the only one!!!

Jan, that is my daily fantasy! I just turned 46 and I've been counting the minutes since I was 25 and had made up my mind on no family.

I even tried to get my gyn to help me out and she mumbled some garbage about laws & ethics or something.:rolleyes:

My grandma was the "one day it was just gone" and my mom had the gigantic horror story. So, I'm seriously counting on that skips-a-generation plan!

Oh yeah! My mom didn't hit menopause until well into her 60's!!! If I follow in her foot-steps I am going to be really, really...really mad at her! (And, yes she will still be around to be mad at because the women in my family also live to be really old.)

My story is much like Sandy's. Hysterectomy at age 32, and never looked back.

I tell people that I went through menopause but I "missed it". DD and DH pipe up very quickly to say that they didn't miss it! :o

Apparently I got very moody! :p

I did get some night sweats but apart from that, I really didn't notice anything different at all.

I really do recommend hysterectomy though. I think it's something that should be offered to women once their child bearing years are over. So much easier!

Ihad my tubes tied right after delivery with Lil'Monkey. Thankfully my husband didn't want kids. Boy did I hound him. I was worried he would wait until I was 40 and say...Yep, I want a child of my own.

He got the whole baby thing. We got GrandMonkey when he just a few weeks old. He just never had to have a pregnant wife. :p

Some months are fine. 3 to 4 light to medium days. Then WHAM...a month where I can't leave the house for the first day.

I have never had cramps, I just get the breast tenderness and those grow! I do admit to the mood swing. It was much better when I was on SAMe.

Yep Anne, it should just be a done deal. When you are done using it...out it goes. :D

Okay.......having hot flashes from h e double toothpicks here. :mad: Why won't mother nature just leave me alone!? I used to laugh at the commercials with the lady sticking her head in the freezer. Not anymore! I'm right there with her. :rolleyes:

Too bad I didn't see this earlier :rolleyes:

I am sooo ready for menopause. I am 48, still ovulating and still having my periods like clock work. I had hot flashes several years ago then they went away. Those hot flashes are now back.

After almost 18 years without BC (I had a tubal after my daughter was born) I am now back on BC to stop ovulation. If these pills work I am only supposed to have a period every 4 months. I might be on them untl menopause.

I am more than willing to have a hysterectomy but my GYN isn't willing to go in that direction at the moment. I had a MRI last year which shows functional ovarian cysts, uterine fibroid and bi-lateral ovarian follicles. None of which my GYN is concerned about.

The bi-lateral ovarian follicles are more than likely due to Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) which I had dx'd when I was 21.

I am ready for all of this crap to end :mad: