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Thanks for sharing your post menopause experiences. You're right, it's framed as this Nirvana, once you're through peri and that mad,.one day of menopause, the world is supposed to be a wonderful.place again, post menopause. It's refreshing to hear someone say that it might not be. I'm 7 years peri and thought I was post, until my GP changed my HRT mix and that triggered a period about 5 days before the magical 12 months was up, so, in all honesty. I've got no idea what part of the bloody menopause cycle I'm in now!!

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Definitely not a freak and definitely not alone. Thanks so much for sharing your story. 💜

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Thankyou. I’m going to start writing soon about how it was a precursor to my ADHD diagnosis.

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Looking forward to reading more of your writings!

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Thank you for sharing and I’m sorry for what you have been through too. I can very much relate and finding out that menopause can be more challenging for neurodivergent women has made so much sense of my struggles. I agree we need more openness on the realness of how rough it can be, less generic stuff that makes us feel crazy when our experience seems abnormally hard ❤️

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Thankyou Sophie. It’s been a very mixed bag especially when ADHD became part of that journey but I can say this point of my life I finally feel really me ❤️

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I am so glad to hear that, that part is incredibly freeing isn't it?

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Sorry for what you've been through, sounds tough. I was shocked to see the AI image, but I guess I shouldn't be!

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Thanks, Sue .. I appreciate that. Post menopause is much kinder to me.

Shocked but not shocked about the AI generated image ...yup.

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