Menopause

[Gigi]

i have been wondering about the "grumpy old woman" thing myself, had been putting it down to the pain ratio. E.g fit, healthy women i would not expect to be grumpy. But everyone is grumpy, when sore and in pain. So was assuming, the grumpy old ladies are in lots of pain and illhealth.

[Bumperstump Cummerbund]

Thanks so much everyone

I had a chat with her, and apparently the portions I've been giving her are too big. She has a lapband, but there's no fluid in it, so I assumed she could eat normally. Tonight I made dinner as normal, and gave her half what I would normally give her, and she ate it all - YAY!

She also said she gets annoyed at getting annoyed ITMS. She says that every day she sees herself doing to me what her mum did to her, with the fussiness and the general lack of gratitude for help, and it irritates her that she's doing it, which makes her even more short tempered, lol. So we've agreed that she's not to worry about turning into her mum, and I'll ignore anything narky she says.

One thing is for certain, I'm NOT looking forward to menopause

[Rivlas]

The Dr told me that we don't get enough vit D and this makes you feel tired and all things that come from feeling tired.

One tablet a day is enough and it does make a difference. She also said to try and get out every day but she knows we need the yellow thing in the sky to be out.

[AnyDream]

Keike, I'm glad you talked to your mum, sounds like you cleared the air AND also gave her a chance to talk about some of her experience with the menopause. No, I don't really enjoy being irritated/grumpy/annoyed either.

Rivlas, thanks for that info. It's interesting that Vit D comes from the sun and it's also responsible for/interacts with the biochemical switch that tells us how to sleep properly too. I have a terrible time with getting sunshine - seems like it's just never out there on my days off.