Weird! Same age starting peri. I’ll definitely have to crack the window next time it happens. Even if it’s negative degrees.

It happened last Saturday. It was snowing, so I didn’t open the window. I should have though.

We also usually go on some kind of trip in January or February. I like getting out of the cold this time of year, Chicago winters are brutal and its nice to break it up. We’ve done Hawaii, skipped a year, and Mexico the past two years. Both times in Mexico, we did a few days in a city and then a few days at a beach before heading back. Our few days at the beach this year was for a friend’s wedding. I wish we’d had one more day there, to get a day in without any wedding events on the agenda. I was not built for multi-day wedding celebrations, but had a blast.

I’m mid-30s, so not going through perimenopause, but in the past few years I’ve started to get really hot at night. The boyfriend and I are never hot or cold at the same time. Every night when we get in bed, I’m freezing and he’s a furnace. But I guess after I fall asleep I heat up because I kick all the blankets and sheets off, I’ll toss and turn if it’s too hot for me. By morning, I’m comfortable and the boyfriend is freezing cold.

Ha, I have close friends who are a few years older and talk about their hot flashes and other symptoms, so I knew a little bit. I shared a room last spring on weekend trip with one friend who’s 51 and she brought a lil fan with her that she kept on her nightstand and turned on high speed all night. She said once peri started a few years earlier, she never traveled anywhere without a fan, even if it meant carrying it on the plane in a carryon bag.

I’ll def start bring up with friends! You were definitely my entry point in learning about it, Wendy.

I’m 47 and also going through perimenopause. It sucks! I do like Wendy’s description of a hot flash, that’s about how mine are. I do sweat a little (mostly around my boobs) but not soaking the sheets. I’m lookin for better “cooling” sheets so if anyone has any recs? Also, the portable fan idea, I think I’m going to steal that for my nightstand! I’d open a window but i can hear cars and it can get too loud.

We are going to Salem in October! I’m really excited about going (though I know it’ll be crazy busy). When I bought the flights, I extended the stay a couple of days so we could explore Boston, except I couldn’t find a reasonable hotel in Boston. Most were $350 a night or more. So we will go to Portland Maine, it was cheaper to do that than to stay in Boston.

I was just diagnosed with carpel tunnel today. It’s actually pretty painful. Waiting on ortho to call to see if I need surgery. PSA: Be sure, if you use a computer a lot (or any repetitive motion) take lots of breaks and have the appropriate “gear”. I didn’t take enough precautions.

Haven’t gotten the hot flashes yet, but my senses go into overtime and I can smell everything. It’s … unpleasant at times. And the first signs of perimenopause started with light headedness that turned into vertigo. At least that’s what the neurologist said. The first time I had vertigo was highly unpleasant. The vertigo only happens when I’m prone, never upright. So when I feel it coming on, I just roll into it and it’s over pretty quickly. The lightheadedness persists through the day, just turning from sink to island is disorienting. Super fun!

I look forward to hot flashes and vertigo simultaneously.