yes ladies, I started around 40 with shorter cycles = 2 more bleedings per year, horrible moodswings, massive decrease of capacity, weight gain, depression. The middle years were even more fun, irritable from zen-calm to furious in 1 fuck up, sweating, smell hallucinations (they were absolutely horrible 2 years ago, now they are mostly gone), later on a change in body odor and more weight gain and less energy, needy, grumpy, overly sensitive, just functioning, bleeding pauses of a few months.
I would have needed a lot more sex than I had (ex was rarely interested in the last years) and this lack made me very very grumpy and undermined my already low self-esteem.
I’m now 52, pray that bleedings stay away for good, lost 18 kg in the last 2 years and my mood is quite stable. Physical symptoms are mostly gone, a PMS or pseudo-hormonal hickup here and there.
I guess my ex can call himself lucky that I did not kill him for is absolute ignorance towards my upset hormones and bad physical and mental condition. One of the reasons he became ex.
Stay sober ladies, the hormonal shitshow is straining enough without adding liquid (or whatever DOC) poisonous stress to your body and mind.
And keep laughing, it helps coping 