If one more per­son says, “You’re too young to have hot flashes!” I’m going to puke.

As if hav­ing the hot flashes isn’t bad enough, I get the whole lec­ture about how they didn’t start hav­ing these “issues” (a.k.a. menopause) until their late 40’s after chil­dren left the house. (Uh, thanks for remind­ing me I’m strug­gling through infertility!)

Check out my “cool­ing unit“
for them night sweats!

And these same peo­ple seem to feel it nec­es­sary to tell me how they’ve had so many other “issues” as they were going through “the change.” Like insom­nia and night sweats (check). Or hor­ri­ble headaches (dou­ble check). And the gen­eral lack of energy (triple check). Not to men­tion the gen­eral lack of fil­ter­ing when it comes to say­ing what I think (quadru­ple check). And finally of course, those mon­strously ginor­mous hor­ri­ble mood swings (quin­tu­ple thru decu­ple check).

Never mind that my poor Hubby’s been get­ting the brunt of these side effects. Like those nasty mood swings. And the lack of desire to do any­thing (if you catch my drift). For Pete’s sake, the poor man has to sleep under lay­ers and lay­ers and lay­ers of blan­kets and cloth­ing just to keep warm while I suf­fer through yet another night of “hot flashes”!

So heed this warn­ing … the next per­son who tells me I’m too young to be hav­ing any hot flashes … I am going to take my next dose of Lu.pron and shove it in their pos­te­rior.

 

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