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For anyone who needs to vent.

I'm currently dealing with menopause. And it is so freaking frustrating. The hot flashes. The weird hormones. The irritability. The sleeplessness. But honestly the part that is irritating me the most is the fact that I'm peeing all the time. Sometimes every five minutes. I'm so tired from not sleeping last night, but I couldn't take a nap today because I was getting up every five minutes to pee.

I've started hormone therapy, but honestly it doesn't seem to be doing much so far. Only been on it a couple weeks, I know it has to build up. But I'm just so frustrated.

Menopause has been hell. The worst 5 years of my life, hands down. I can't access hormone therapy so I'm just hoping there's an end in sight.

Sorry you are dealing with it too. I honestly didn't think it would be this bad since I had a hysterectomy a number of years ago and only have ovaries left. I wasn't expecting it to be this bad.

The urinary issues are real. It helps to work on pelvic floor exercises, even just occasionally.

On the plus side, my lifelong battle with acne has almost disappeared here near the end.

I think I'm in perimenopause.

OMG I get the peeing thing sometimes! I don't know why, and it's SO annoying. But there are times where I'm the same as you and it feels as though literally I can't go more than 15 minutes without peeing. And I'm like, I didn't even drink this much! Where did this all come from???

AYRT

I honestly don't know, hormones seem to be the only explanation. Because sometimes, like today, it is just about every 5 minutes for 2-4 hours or so and then I'm back to my normal if still excessive amount. And it always seems to come at exactly the time when I really need to sleep too.

Just chiming in to agree that it sucks! My main symptom is RAGE.

Oh man, this is mine too. I've always been so good at hiding my emotions, even to super unhealthy levels. And now I'm struggling. I nearly snapped at a judge a couple weeks ago, I really had to work hard to stop myself. He deserved it, but it wouldn't have helped.

I've always had fairly low levels of emotions in general, so this is throwing me for a loop.

I hear you. I realized (when the irregular periods and hot flashes started) that I must've been in peri for a couple years now, because the rage is something else. My (male) partner and father infuriate me now. It's not that their behaviour has drastically changed for the worse. It's the same old same old slightly sexist gender role BS from men who make messes they don't clean up, act like the housekeeping fairy does all the tidying up right after the dinner fairy leaves, stuff like that. The same men who think their own opinions are THE most important thing in the universe but nobody else is worth listening to but it's not their fault that they just don't happen to hear anything I said and I'm giving them a hard time for nothing blah blah blah.

Tiresome at best, but now? I have an incredibly short fuse and NO patience for this shit. Both of them have been on the receiving end of some absolutely blistering home truths about how they act and what that says about them, and they're completely befuddled and defensive because hey, it was fine for decades so why am I rocking the boat now? Can't the doctor give me some magic hormone pills and fix me?

They will both be lucky if they don't end up in the woodchipper, so help me god.

I'm not sure if I'm lucky in this regard. I've had rage all my life thanks to CPTSD so at this point I can't even tell the difference.

I hear you. It doesn't always happen to me, but the other night I was peeing every half hour from 11pm to 4:30am. Absolutely brutal on my sleep cycle, and I'm already tired all the time.

Also having mini hot flashes. They're not crazy bad, but maybe a dozen times a day I experience 10-15 minutes of light sweating and feeling like I'm standing under a heat lamp. Plus headaches.

We had spring break last week. I literally slept for the first 4 days. Dissociated for the next 2. Finally started feeling like myself again yesterday, and now it's time to go back.

Oh man, that feels like my life these days. All I do on weekends for the most part is catch up on sleep.

Sleep is good, but sorry you needed that much of it. I hope you do continue to feel better.

Thank you. I appreciate that and hope you rest well this coming week.

Being in "helping" occupations takes a toll.

Thanks. Everything is harder right now. I imagine it is harder in schools too, at least in the US. Kids can usually sense when things aren't good. I can imagine it must be hard seeing their stress and figuring out the best way to help them while making sure they keep learning as well.

Honestly it's admin that's the most exhausting. And parents. Sadly, and as usual, kids get caught in the crossfire. Soooo many of them are just completely checked out, which I can understand and try to work with because they are absorbing adult stress and don't have the wiring to deal.

Oh, absolutely, administration is always the worst. And kids always have to carry the burden of the adults around them. I feel so much for kids these days.

One show is saving me from suicidal ideation. But I need more than one show.

Three day weekend and two of the days were just absolute shit. I don't feel refreshed at all and I don't feel like going back to work.

Of course I will, I'm just pissed I couldn't even enjoy the break because people suck. Also, pretty sure I'm PMSing. Think I'll just take breaks on off weeks from now on, when I can.

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