Perimenopause is going to be really hard. I am noticing that my cycles are coming closer together and with increasingly rough cramps. Yesterday I did not manage to complete my 3 mile run because I couldn’t. I could barely walk home. The cramps didn’t get going until a mile in. Then I had some of the most excruciating cramps I can remember having.

It felt like someone managed to yank the side of my vagina over towards the outer edge of my hip. But only on one side. That was a horrible feeling.

Then last night I woke up out of a dead sleep to have intense diarrhea and vomiting. I think because of the cramps.

Becoming a crone is going to be a rough ride.