Reply #2: Nope. I no longer have to deal with that.

[Callie McAllie]

Menopause really is a lovely thing. So unappreciated. Althought who's to say there aren't still cycles like that? But how would I know? Hallelujah, I haven't had my period since last May. I am almost officially done with that.

An aside...I live in a university town, with a med school. They somehow got wind of my menopausal status and asked me to participate in a survey on the topic. I was actually quite excited about it.

But the day came, and this sweet young man (young enough to be my son, yes) blushed as he posed this set of questions to me about symptoms (vaginal bleeding, dryness during intercourse) that would accompany taking some hormone medication, and would I do it?

Hell, no.

I told him I was going to skew his survey, but he didn't mind. The other side affects of whatever hormone therepy where much worse (heart attack, cancer, etc.). If I'm not going to take it when the side effect is vaginal bleeding, I'm not going to take it when the side effect is cancer. Duh.

Anyway, I was there for 10 minutes, and they gave me a $30 gift card for the local grocery chain for my trouble. I can see that there is some benefit to being old. Besides not having PMS.