Been feeling rather perimenopausal lately

Been feeling rather perimenopausal lately - it's even worse than when you're pregnant and the fetus sucks the grey matter from your brain!

Now I'm just plain beotchy about everything - for example I know hubby doesn't like to go shopping and it's daughter's birthday so we need to actually buy something - at the end of the trip we're arguing. I don't want him to be irritated so I try and get the shopping done as soon as possible and he thinks that I'm rushing so that he can't buy what he wants! I just can't win anymore...

Now having looked into perimenopause over the past few years and finding it can last 10 friggin years - it's just another one of those things women have to put up with hormonally.

First you begin bleeding at about 11 or 12 usually (and most girls weren't told about it when I was young) and think that you're dying or something.

Then you get to enjoy the wonderful experience of it (your period) taking a few years to become "normal" and you end up soiling more white pants in high school than a whole school of judo students go through in a year.

Ah then you become "regular" and I must say, luckily I was pretty much so even after going off the pill - my periods could be guaranteed to be 28 days no more, no less. That was definitely a good period (no pun intended).

Then at 40 when they became as irregular as in my early teens it was the same thing - now I went through Super size tampons every half an hour and still leaked- soiling some pretty good underwear in the process!

Sometime in my 40's a gyno decided that I probably needed a D & C so I went through that exciting experience - never again!

Here I am approaching 50 (well I have about 2 1/2 more years to go) and I've become so beotchy and miserable I can't even stand myself - womanhood - 'oh what a feeling, what a rush'.

So if we calculate that I began peri-meno at about 40 when my body totally changed I only have another couple of years of being the hag from hell before I'm finally finished with it.

Then I get to look forward to more hair on my face, hot flashes, vaginal dryness and night sweats possibly - and here's the kicker ladies - even after 1 year of no periods and being officially "menopausal" - you can apparently still become pregnant- oh the wonders of nature!