sounds like my job. I’ll be at my desk, get up to go to the bathroom, and come back to someone saying I wasn’t there. But that’s also because I always answer the phone when someone calls to see I’m available even when I am helping someone so they know to not send someone to me. My other coworkers who do my job don’t…

the only possible issue is that someone needs help when I am away, but they can wait for me since I am usually only gone for 5 minutes tops. I have to check periodically to see if anything needs to be done/drop things in the mail. I can’t be strapped to my desk at all times. I don’t just sit there and web-browse. I…

Yay thank you!! :D I don’t have a Twitter account yet but I’ll follow you when I get one!

Second what Maggie said. We did it through Twitter and I also set up a Gmail account for those who don’t have Twitter to contact me.

I lived in FULL humidity (Houston and Galveston). People here talk about humidity and I just laugh at them. I did always have AC, so I am spoiled with that. It’s also been so still. I would just stay outside in the shade if it was breezy.

I am doing part of my job when I get up. Yeah, I probably get up too much some days, which I will definitely decrease after this. But it is part of my job to get up and check to see what needs to be done. I don’t spend as much time moving around as I used to when I started. But sometimes I just need to get up and move…

Yassssssssss!

I am down!

All men should have periods for at least 2 years so they know what it’s like! I have 3 brothers and they all acted like I was such a baby for having cramps. UGH! I was so mood the last 2 days before I started. Everything my husband did pissed me off. And I kept complaining about being hot (this is the first heat wave…

Yoooo can I join?? I live up in the PNW but my dad is in Santa Monica so I’m in LA a few times per year.

Sorry?

there has been this weird battle about us always being at our desks, but it’s unrealistic because we have to check for work we need to do (which means living our desks) and we drop mail off and have to run credit cards and such. But my coworker thinks that I gossip too much, which is fine, but I have drastically…

Sister with you right now AND I had an endometrial ablation! My mom had like one hot flash and that was that.

Thanks again! Please let me know if you do make that GroupThink post as I do not often check that sub. I’d really like to participate in this one, though. I have a lot to say and a lot to learn, both!

You’re welcome! I keep promising/threatening to do a menopause post on GroupThink, but never seem to get around to it.

Next up: Loss of hair in the usual places, and hairs in fun new places!

Thank you for this: “my uterus is constipated”. I am newly familiar with the pain and ache of “mittelschmerz”. Just when I thought my body has caused me enough grief, there’s always something new waiting around the next growth spurt.

Oh, the hot flashes. I’d wave a manila folder in front of my face at work because I was SO HOT. Finally broke down and bought one of those personal “menopause fans,” you know, the ones they sell at Walgreen’s that are supposed to be soothing for everyone, but the only people buying them are menopausal women who are…

Chances are you’ll know your menstrual cycle is nearing its end when you start having hot flashes. Your cycle can be really weird for a year or more in perimenopause. But hot flashes are a big sign. At least they were for me. Don’t ask me how many years they last unless you’ve got a glass of adult bevvie in front of…

But also perhaps, as a mother of five, she was unsentimental about her uterus throwing in the towel.