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.....to be angry that my body is doing this at 37?

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sunshine75 · 04/04/2013 20:23

Okay....37 is getting on a bit but it's not like properly old. I can accept the following:

  1. A few grey hairs
  2. Some wrinkles
  3. Harder to lose weight.


However, I am mightly fucked off at the following and ask you mumsnetters out there if this is normal?

  1. My PMT is getting worse. I'm really angry and irritated by everyone/everything for at least 5 days per month.


2.Seriously, I am sweatier and my sweat smells much worse than it used to. I really stink after hard exercise (and I'm sure I used to be able to go running and then to the pub afterwards without going home first)

  1. Hairs - where have they come from? They are everywhere. Chin and pubes are the worst. It's grim and I can't keep on top of them.


Is this the downward slide to stinking of piss and having a beard? FFS, I'm only 37.
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Gossipmonster · 04/04/2013 20:25

I also get chin hairs :( :( :(

I am 38 :(

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NorthernLurker · 04/04/2013 20:27

Oh lord! I'm 36 and my PMT is definately worse - but I put that down to being contraceptive free as dh had the ship. Hair and sweat eh? Can't wait for next year's birthday!

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NorthernLurker · 04/04/2013 20:28

The SNIP not a SHIP (sounds like dh is away on three year voyage thuse renedering contraception surplus to requirements)

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IWishIWasSheRa · 04/04/2013 20:28

I'm 30 tomorrow and have chin hairs and sweat!! I suggest tweezers and triple dry aerosol- it's the only thing that works- leaves white marks but is fab!

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Chipstick10 · 04/04/2013 20:28

Oh babe wait till you get to my age ( let's say over 44). Walking with a little waddle when you first stand up cos your back aches. Bingo wings. Muchly greying of hair. Weird eyebrows. Older ladies teeth. Not being able to go on a trampoline without a nappy. Happy days

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Gossipmonster · 04/04/2013 20:29

The weight thing too :(

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monkeysbignuts · 04/04/2013 20:30

I am stinky too lol. I am only 33 but put it down to being 6 months post partum? Could this be permanent lol
I'm half cypriot and have always suffered with rouge hairs :/

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sunshine75 · 04/04/2013 20:31

Northernlurker - I also came off the pill about a year ago - do you think that may explain the PMT radginess?

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MintyyAeroEgg · 04/04/2013 20:33

I recommend the Mitchum stick deodorant for the extra sweatiness and a x 15 magnifying mirror and pointed tweezers for the chin hairs. And go to your gp re. the pmt - you don't have to suffer in silence!

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monkeysbignuts · 04/04/2013 20:33

My pmt has got worse since having kid's. I was fine before

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NorthernLurker · 04/04/2013 20:34

Ah yes probably so then. It's nearly 5 years for me and it hasn't got worse all the time or anything. Just worse than it was in my pill taking 20s

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CockyFox · 04/04/2013 20:34

I'm 29 and have all of those things, as well as hairy nipples, hairy stomach, horrendous bloating, 1 period a year if I am lucky and acne. I have had all of the above minus the grey hairs and wrinkles since I was about 14 nothing to do with being old and everything to do with severe PCOS.

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rhondajean · 04/04/2013 20:34

I knew this would be hairs. I'm 36.

Oh the shame Blush

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marjproops · 04/04/2013 20:36

at 15 my hair started turning grey-colouring it ever since.

at 33 my eyesight started going.

at 36 my hearing started going.

at 38 everything else went. slim went, smooth skin went.

got chin AND (TMI) nipple hair.

no matter how much I wash/spray/moisturise...I reek of BO

periods are niagara falls.

wind factor hurricane proportions!

bingo wings and thighs.

boobs like melons.

knees both full of arthritis.

....goes to buy zimmer frame.....im 48

and groan everytime i get up from a chair.

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sunshine75 · 04/04/2013 20:39

Haha - glad I'm not alone!!

It really has got worse post-kids. Everything is much more effort at exactly the time in your life when you really can't be arsed to make any effort at all.

Mother nature is a cruel mistress is she not?

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FarBetterNow · 04/04/2013 20:45

You have grey pubes to look forward to! (grin)

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Molehillmountain · 04/04/2013 20:46

I can deal with everything except the pmt. The hairs, smell, wrinkles etc do not make me a ranting screeching and cruel woman. I'm doing a three month log of pmt and then going to the doctors. I'm actually not sure it's worse than Pre kids-it's just that children don't read the warning signs too well and then keep out of my way or not say anything challenging.

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SirBoobAlot · 04/04/2013 20:47

Chin beard hair, black upper lip hair, grey hair AND grey pubes. Also have terrible skin, so don't even get to avoid the shit bits of being young.

I'm 2fucking1.

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PumpkinPositive · 04/04/2013 20:48

I've been going bald since I was 19.

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NaturalBlondeYeahRight · 04/04/2013 20:58

Yeah, dodgy knees here too, teeth need cleaning within an inch of their lives as well. Everything seems to go downhill after 35. On the plus side I had the mirena (and I know it doesn't work for everyone) no periods and no pmt. So that's a bonus.
I wish evolution would bloody catch up a bit.

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JeanBodel · 04/04/2013 20:58

I am interested to hear that you lot stink too.

I am 36 and have really a noticed a difference in BO over the last year or so.

Old age...so much worse than we thought it would be.

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Nombrechanger · 04/04/2013 21:02

I have major pmt. I also have chin/nipple/sideburns hair.

I am 38.

Whooppeeedoooo!!!

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MissBetseyTrotwood · 04/04/2013 21:03

36 here y'all.

Chin hairs - check.
Sweatier - check. (but mostly only on one armpit Confused )
Heavier 'tache - check.
RAGING PMT - check.
Still spots - check.
One massive, black hair that periodically grows out of my neck but I never quite notice it until I'm in a meeting at work or something and it's about an inch long.

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Oblomov · 04/04/2013 21:07

Am not in my 30's as of recently and am getting worse,rapidly. Not good.

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Willowisp · 04/04/2013 21:09

Well I'm 44, greying a bit, but rarely wear deodorant & don't smell, don't groan when I get up, have periods regularly once a month (ok, a tidal for wave the first 2 days & then barely a trickle).

Pubic hair still in the pubic region & only 1 rogue facial hair. I don't have bingo wings & I'm pretty much the same shape as I was 25 yrs ago.

We need to compare note Grin

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