Physical, mental, hormonal, etc. How did menopause affect you as a woman who never had kids? I understand everyone is different, but I’m just curious to understand what might happen to me. Thank you!
Physical, mental, hormonal, etc. How did menopause affect you as a woman who never had kids? I understand everyone is different, but I’m just curious to understand what might happen to me. Thank you!
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I hadn’t thought having kids made a difference in menopause.
I never had kids and hit menopause about 50. I have hot flashes but they aren’t bad. I haven’t had huge change in weight or mood swings. I will occasionally get a sense of doom right before a hot flash but I find the entire thing more interesting than irritating.
The only real issue I had was hot flashes and night sweats, and I dealt with that with getting onto birth control pills.
Do you mean from a pelvic floor type difference? I can’t really think of why it would be different otherwise except that many women who had children may have dysfunction related to that?
Well, I’ve never heard of people having different experiences because they had kids or not. I think it’s such a personal thing that hearing other women’s’ stories isn’t going to be particularly helpful. My mom struggled in perimenopause and menopause for about a decade, with moderate side effects. My sister’s mother in law also has had prolonged hot flashes and night sweats. Poor thing has been dealing with it for years.
I blew through it in a few months with no major issues. I had 4 hot flashes and 3 night sweats along with dry mouth and brain fog. That was it. I practically sailed through. That said, my mom eats a SAD diet and I’m a whole food vegan. I imagine that had some type of effect.
Never had a hot flash, the worst symptoms I had were dry eyes and achy boob on and off for a couple of years. Emotionally I was probably more short tempered, so maybe the only big advantage to not having kids would be not having teens in the house while being short tempered ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Hardly affected me. Only reason I know it happened is because my periods stopped 18 months ago.
No hot flushes. No emotional or mental health changes I’m aware of.
Didn’t use HRT. There was no reason to.
Weight on my stomach is harder to shift than it was, and I can see where facial wrinkles will be coming in. There’s perhaps mild vaginal dryness.
(My mother had the exactly the same menopause experience. She had two children including me, I have no children.)
Menopause can really mess with your head… and your body, I mean, how do you even handle all that without kids to distract you?
What were the biggest surprises for you when it hit?