So this has more to do with your experience, experience with others, perceptions, and dealing with a co worker. I'm currently 50 and on Nuva-Ring. My current OB-Gyn is great and basically is of the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" and explained that if I go off it, I will have symptoms, most likely heavy periods, blah blah. I mostly stay on as a migraine avoidance prophylactic.
I currently don't have any symptoms like night sweats, hot flashes, and obviously periods are regular b/c of NR, sleep is pretty OK, nothing like I hear friends talk about, just the usual once in awhile awakening but I also use melatonin.
I have a pretty strong personality in general, have never been shy to voice my opinion. Obviously as one ages, confidence grows, and confidence in one's opinions and position in life grows as well, too, right?
Co worker is 57 (inactive and overweight) and seems like right around 48/49 and especially now 50 she'll take every opportunity to make cracks about the "silent passage" and attribute almost anything I do (in front of other co workers) to menopause. IMHO very guy like. I at one point said something like you know I'm on hormones, to which she replied "Oh sh!t, better double up in the next couple years." Then I tried to reason with her, "Why is it OK for a man to have an opinion and stick up for himself but a 50 y/o woman is called menopausal?"
Now deep down my gut says, she is annoyed that I am not acting like poltergeist, that I just ran a marathon, that I have more or less maintained my weight (I'm no skinny minny, but...)
ON THE OTHER HAND, I wonder AM I acting like a lunatic? Is being opinionated, not letting another co-worker who constantly lies get away with it anymore, sticking up for yourself being "hormonal?" How do you know if you are acting up and down emotionally and that it is affecting other people or if she's just disappointed I'm not behaving as she'd hoped?
I currently don't have any symptoms like night sweats, hot flashes, and obviously periods are regular b/c of NR, sleep is pretty OK, nothing like I hear friends talk about, just the usual once in awhile awakening but I also use melatonin.
I have a pretty strong personality in general, have never been shy to voice my opinion. Obviously as one ages, confidence grows, and confidence in one's opinions and position in life grows as well, too, right?
Co worker is 57 (inactive and overweight) and seems like right around 48/49 and especially now 50 she'll take every opportunity to make cracks about the "silent passage" and attribute almost anything I do (in front of other co workers) to menopause. IMHO very guy like. I at one point said something like you know I'm on hormones, to which she replied "Oh sh!t, better double up in the next couple years." Then I tried to reason with her, "Why is it OK for a man to have an opinion and stick up for himself but a 50 y/o woman is called menopausal?"
Now deep down my gut says, she is annoyed that I am not acting like poltergeist, that I just ran a marathon, that I have more or less maintained my weight (I'm no skinny minny, but...)
ON THE OTHER HAND, I wonder AM I acting like a lunatic? Is being opinionated, not letting another co-worker who constantly lies get away with it anymore, sticking up for yourself being "hormonal?" How do you know if you are acting up and down emotionally and that it is affecting other people or if she's just disappointed I'm not behaving as she'd hoped?