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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like perimenopause issues are discussed much more.

I'm in a weird place at age 54. Most of my friends started experiencing perimenopause symptoms in their early to mid-40s and discussed them. I felt the same as always and had cycles like clockworks. Now, many of my friends are completely done and I am just starting with the symptoms, missing a period here and there. Am I going to still  have periods when I'm 60?[/quote]

In your honest assessment would you say you look younger than most 54 year old women?  It would seem to me that women who go through menopause later, look youthful for longer. [/quote]

NP. I am 53 and this is me, too. Now finally the periods are acting up. Different bodies age differently, and it doesn’t have that much to do with health and lifestyle. I was reading an article that said if you were able to get pregnant naturally after age 35 (I was 39 for my first), you probably have a body that ages more slowly and will live longer. I also have no real wrinkles or turkey neck or old lady hands and not a lot of gray. Also through no particular effort of my own- I started using face creams in my mid forties, and never bothered with sunscreen (although I also was never one to lay out in the sun) My mother and grandmother/grandfather on my maternal line were/are the same. My mother had some kind of mild cancer at 80 and it just kind of disappeared with the most minimal treatment. We joke that that side of the family lives forever.

It makes sense that you look more youthful if you haven’t gone through menopause because it means you still have higher levels of estrogen and other hormones.[/quote]

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