This is the one to watch ladies if you think you too could be slipping ino the pit! the FSH. Apparently, as its blood levels creep up to 50 you become peri menopausal, sounds sweet and inoffensive! The peri menopause is essential to ease you in gently. You are therefore in that phase where some things still actually make sense and some people are still just about tolerable but at least you can brace yourself for the onslaught! As the FSH climbs above the 50 mark, so your ability to tolerate just about anyone diminishes and you officially become 'a mad old bat!'. You also suddenly realise what your poor mother went through and can be found weeping uncontrollably down the phone to your mother who is doubless on the other end silently laughing uncontrollably to herself!
This FSH is released as a direct response to our sadly diminishing oestrogen supplies and our GP's are able to test the levels quite easily, that is of course, if they can be bothered!
Follicle is a nasty word! Follicles are sweaty and have hairs sticking out of them, most unpleasant! I'm sure they have been a survival essential for human beings since we crawled naked out of the undergrowth, but they can go into room 101 for my money. We are unfortunately at the mercy of our stimulated follicles in fact I feel as if I am a follicle on overdrive, weeping and sprouting! As I see it, FSH stands for Fat, Smelly and Hairy (or Forever Sodding Hungry!)
Ps thanks to those of you who have sent me comments so far, we are one!
Another warning off GP today re coming off HRT..."been on it too long, but you know the risks!" Yes I do but somehow they fade into insignificance when put next to not being able to sleep, having my own internal combustion energy going full pelt at the most innoportune times and not being able to get my head out of the blessed fog.....what to do.....be brave and ditch the pills or continue to bury my foggy head?xxx
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