Well, I can definitely say that LC WOA is the best for me and meno.
I guess I finished meno too (am 56, peri started about 52).
I got my last period a year ago December.
I began mild hot flashes about a year ago, about 5 a day but they calmed down to 1 a day when ever I got real serious with LC WOA.
Then, I added fairly maniacal exercise.
My hot flashes have vanished.
I noticed about 4 weeks ago I hadn't had one in a while.
Now all I got is meno-belly fat and fog brain.

I'm now 55 and the periods are coming 6-9 months apart with no notice. The last one was about 8 months ago. I hope it really was the last, but we shall see. I've had no other symptoms of menopause, except a few hot flashes (which finished about 2 years ago).

However, I do have more trouble losing fat from my waist/torso region now and less trouble losing it from my face and hips. My waist is thickening as I age. I'm very apple shaped and an insulin resistant type 2 diabetic.

Wow, Carolyn... I'm 53 and my periods are 1-6 months apart. I was wondering how long this would go on but from reading what you wrote it looks like it could linger for years. They only started to get irregular last year.

No symptoms other than heart palpitations, but they're very annoying.

I was 48 when the first hot flush hit. It was novel, we both laughed. The symptoms worsened and when hubby touches my waist or comes close in bed, I break into full blown heat and sweat.
Gradually symptoms went from bad to worse. I am now 53 and have just been put on the patch, which has relieved some symptoms.

Interesting thread. I've been peri-menopausal for years. 48 now. Didn't have TOM for about 6 months, then it hit the day after my hip replacement surgery a couple of years ago. A couple more round of hot flashes, just a couple of TOM per year, then it came to visit as I was trying to get on my first airplane in 3 years. I'd like to just be done with it. Good to read that pretty much everyone has low or no sex drive, I'm not the only one.

My periods started skipping at 54 and I had my last period (I hope) a year ago at 57 years old.

Didn't follow the family pattern though. My mom was only 36 years old when her periods stopped after the birth of her last child. And both my sister stopped in their early 40s.

I think I must take after my great-grandmother who had 13 children, six of whom were born after she remarried over 40, her last one born in her 50s.

So... this is weird. I was about to toss out the tampons it had been a year or more since my last TOM, then they restarted. I've had two in a row! Just like I did before perimeno hit a couple years ago.

Anyone else have that happen?

I was almost two years without, and sure that it was over - and had another period. Then 6 months later another one. It's been just over a year now and I am still not sure I am done - at 58 years old!

All right. I guess I might be holding onto that "last" box of tampons for quite some time. LOL! I keep thinking "I'll never have to buy tampons again". That's about when I get my next period.

My favourite tampon was discontinued, so I bought enough at the time to last me till I was thru menopause - I thought. I ran out of them long before!

I kind of started in early fifties...didn't know what it was at first!
Hot flashes! Nothing severe. Mens stopped at 53. Than while eating good low-carb and particularly adding flaxmeal to diet...hot flashes over immediately. Every time I get off low carb and discontinue flax I start up again w sweats and hot flashes. I am 58 and done with it. No meds or hormones. Yay!

My periods stopped suddenly at 48 with no warning signs. I thought I was pregnant! They never came back. I had almost no signs of menopause except a thicker waist and a kind of surge in confidence. Don't know how to describe it accurately but it was empowering. I wasn't shy about speaking up any more, in business meetings I talked to men like an equal instead of deferring to them. A little extra testosterone or just "hag-wisdom"? I don't know which it was but I liked it and still do.

hag-wisdom, I like that

vslmom---How do you eat the flaxseed meal?? myrt