Laugh or Cry?

[PatriceH]

I'm not sure whether I should laugh or cry. Is this a sick joke to celebrate a return to a healthy life or something else that could be wrong...(this is kind of a scarcastic comment)...

I find myself today on the day I will be leaving my current job (thread elsewhere under career crossroads) to find that just maybe my periods have returned.

I guess the one thing I would have celebrated never to have returned.

I kind of have to laugh inside thinking God is saying, "Go into your new life, you have been restored." and then cry..with a hint of fear that only the coming days will reveal the signs of new life in my body.

TMI, I know, but hey, we're sisters, right?!

I'm 49 and was pre-menopausal when this ride began at 47 and the docs said it was highly unlikely my periods would return...now today, of all days?

Let's hope it's this and not some other stage of disease. I'd almost forgotten the signs.

[Becky]

My periods returned too and I was very concerned as well thinking it could be something else. I even got a transvaginal ultrasound about 2-3 weeks later only to find that I was about to ovulate again (and had my period again). I was almost 47 then. Oh joy!

My youngest daughter who was about 15 then said, "see, you look young on the outside and you are young on the inside too"!

What was the most distressing was that my "Herceptin" buddy at the cancer center I go to was 34 yrs old and really wanted to have a baby (even after cancer treatment) and she never got her period back and went for fertility work up and found it would be impossible. I never told her about me as it would have been a blow that she could not handle at that time. To me, it didn't seem fair since "my factory" was going to be closed regardless of cancer. My baby making days were over for my family years prior.

Thankfully I did have teenage girls in my house so I had "supplies" available!

[Lien]

Been there, done that. I'd been menopausal because my ovaries had been shot down with Zoladex. A year after I quit it, at age 50, I was blessed with a period and now they are coming like clockwork. Grr.

Jacqueline