News flash!
Menopause is cancelled.
You heard if first on Friend for the Ride.
All those symptoms.
Gone.
I got it straight from a Menopause Fairy.
And she got it directly from the Menopause Queen.
So toss your menopausal woes to the April winds!
The bad news is you will now be having your period for the rest of your life.
But your skin will glow,
Your bones won’t creak,
And you’ll sleep like you are sixteen.
Yep.
Menopause is
No fooling!
I think, in some ways, I’m going to miss menopause.
What about you?
Friend For The Ride 
Haha. Happy April 1st to you, too! Nope, I’ll keep menopause. I’ve been waiting for it for years. Periods be gone!
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Gone, gone, gone!
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You got me
Happy April Fools!
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Same to you (a day later!)
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Happy April Fool’s Day!
I’ll keep menopause, I think of it as a right of passage for us girls.
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Yep. That’s for sure!
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I think Aunt Flo must be banished as well. While you are banishing things..lets just do away with the hot flashes..
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I’ll ask the Menopause Queen. Maybe next year…
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PS Since it is April Fools – has anyone experienced the mental clarity written about by Dr. Northrup..paraphrasing badly – the veil of estrogen lifted from our brains leaving clearer thoughts..?
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I might say that I have in some ways. When I was in the midst of it, I stopped writing. Tons of self-doubt. Now I’m writing away. Memory-wise I am definitely on the downside, but brain wise in other ways, I feel more energetic and I suppose yes, somewhat clearer.
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Thank you, Barbara, I am still waiting for the clarity. If only it was visual as well. Reading glasses #27..
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Ha! I’m on two kinds of glasses. Reading and distance. The distance is thanks to a certain DMV officer who flunked me on my distance vision.
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B, meant to tell you, I sold my first story to a national magazine!
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Way cool on the national magazine. I’d love to hear more!
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Even though menopause symptoms can be unfun, I’m embracing my aging process. I don’t want to age backwards. I’ve worked too hard to gain insight correlated with my life experience. I don’t want to have to re-learn some tough lessons. Onward and upward.
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Oh, no. In no way would I consent togging back there again.
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Oops; to going back there again!
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Cramps…bloating…flooding.. figuring out if you’ll be having your period on the beach trip. Yuck. I get so sad every time I think about a young girl getting her period.
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I was all “YAY!” until you said I was going to have my period for the rest of my life. Fark that!
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Love FARK! Not an expression I knew. A great one!
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That Menopause Fairy is full of it!
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She says I’m to tell that Haralee to watch her tone…
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I’ll have a period and enjoy the the fountain of youth a little longer.
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I sure did feel younger back then.
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Cute. I’m quite content to be done with all that fuss!
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Life is definitely simpler in some ways!
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Lol, thanks for the paradigm shift 🙂 Interesting how towards the end, the symptoms go crazy…mood swings, insominia, PMS, heavy period, etc…kinda helps make saying goodbye “really easy”!
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Reminds me of my theory on teenagers. If they were as sweet as say a six month old or a six year old, you wouldn’t be able to let them go as easily as you can when they are teens (go to college or move out that is). Not go out of your life completely.
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For a while perhaps we thought that there was a menopause fairy in the form of HRT, but like most fairy stories the reality was rather different!
Now if someone could just wave a magic wand and we could go from being fully fertile to post menopausal overnight, then that would be something magical. Having to cope with ‘Aunt Flo’s’ occasional and unpredictable visits, while getting use to the menopause queens ‘gifts’ can be a bind!
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Yep. A magic menopause wand would be good. Wish I could offer one as a giveaway…
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Was hoping the weight gain would be canceled too. I am tired of wearing this inner tube!
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And I gain it back so quickly nowadays even if I’m successful getting some off.
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