on getting older and perimenopause

Okay- now I know I'm getting older. My womanly cycles could be timed almost to the hour even when I wasn't on the pill, to every 28 days. These past 3 times I've gotten the unhappy surprise of every 3 weeks. My mother has long passed on, and she had a hysterectomy at 38 anyway, so I couldn't ask her about her history of such matters. And since my sis took fertility shots for 2 years in her early forties, it's screwed up her cycles, so the only thing I surmise is it's perimenopause.On the plus side, I only have to put up with this crap another 8 years or so.

My sis-in-law cracks me up...because of a tumor on her (whatever) gland that is in our foreheads, she didn't even start having a period til she was 37. I remember her first one after the operation she asked me, "how long do these things last?" Just last month she said she can't wait for menopause. I told her to quit complaining, you missed out on 25 years of it.....lol

Have a great day :)