you cant positive think your way out of hormones

So.

You know how I’ve spoken of PMS before, and how it’s kinda not the best time around these parts?

Well, if you think PMS is bad, try out a little PERIMENOPAUSE!!!

Ooooo hoooo ya baby.  That right there, are SOME real good times….

And I should know…because I, at age 33…..have been diagnosed.  

Well almost.

At present time of writing, it’s been 9 months of low progesterone.  

And I guess to be “officially” considered part of the peri club, you have to have it for 12 months…

but come on, the writing’s on the wall.  

Or uh, on the blog.

And this post?

Oh, and this time and that time???

It wasn’t me!!!

It was my new excuse BFF Peri!!!!

Actually, Jimmy’s had the chance to get to know her quite well too….

we’re a happy go lucky threesome around here.

Allllll the month long.

Now.

I’m still in the learning stages, but from what my 2nd opinion Dr. has told me, 

(this would DR. GOOGLE, very reliable guy he is), 

is that not only is perimenopause a random fluctuation of hormones throughout the month, but it can last years!

Like TENOFTHEM!!!!

And then???

You get MENOPAUSE!!!

Being a woman?

Is kind of awesome!!!

{all the !!!!’s are making me feel better, just roll with me here.}

Girls, I know how to make things FUN and INTERESTING around my house!

This is GREAT news for you who may happen to like reading my blog, because this just means I have at LEAST 10 more years of good story telling and plenty of time to find the humor in it all.

{maybe one day i’ll even get PAID to write!  Imagine that?!?}

The BAD news is….

Well, poor Jimmy.

Recently we had a “little tiff”…I think right after a bout of PMS, where I complained of a headache. 

{another peri symptom right there! gotta love it!}

  It was just one PMS headache too many for him I suppose, and out came a quote I’m pretty sure he wishes he could now take back….

 FOR REALS.

{you just can’t make that stuff up.}

And he said it OUT LOUD in the middle of Costco, which is a good thing I guess, because I tend not to get feisty (or “peri” as we say now) around free food samples, so I held it in until we got home.

But when I sat in the doctors office last week and got the diagnosis, not only did I feel relief that there was an actual medical REASON for my “fun days”, but I almost hugged her when she said….

“This may explain your sudden and random anxiety.  Low progesterone can cause that to happen out of nowhere, and you just CAN’T POSITIVE THINK YOUR WAY OUT OF A HORMONE IMBALANCE.”

FOR REALS.

And I may have asked her to write that down and sign her official doctors name to it, so I could have a legitimate doctors note for my husband to see the next time he wanted to get sassy at Costco.

So, there we go.

Now we know.

I may have some hormones to sort out (shocker!) and maybe a little weight to lose (hello Tracy!), but now we know what’s causing it, and it’s FIXABLE.

Except on the off “peri” days it isn’t, but that’s okay because I now HAVE A DOCTORS NOTE.

Being 33 is awesome.

{also?  found out my cholesterol is high on the same day.  just hand me a walker and let’s be done with it.}

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