You are addressing an important issue and one that troubles a lot of us. And that is the lack of competent research on the entire topic of menopause. As it stands right now "menopause" seems to be defined by some pretty lousy research into drugs and surgery, but almost no research data on what is "normal" about menopause, let alone what is beneficial about menopause.

  Almost every week we get a distressed post from a woman who has been told by her MD that she is "too young" to be facing menopause, yet she has been presenting many of the classic signs of a normal menopause. Her doctor thinks menopause only happens to women past 50 and sends any woman who does not meet this artificial age criteria down all sorts of frightening and counter-productive diagnostic pathways due to this generally held misconception about what a "normal" age range for menopause can be and ignorance of its wide variations.

   The real tragedy of this is felt by any woman who feels she has many extra years for family planning only to find out that her body is normally going through menopause at age 35, even though such a scenario thad never been presented to her in any menopause resource she had ever come in contact with.  Like a litany, one hears over and over "the average age for menopause is age 51". This is a decades long gap of misinformation.

   There is a group that was created for women who do fall into the "early menopause" category, that is under the age of 35. I hope someone will be able to provide a link to it. I believe it may be under the name of "PFO" or premature ovarian failure.  It will be good to find a group of like-minded souls who you can share your concerns  with, because for many of us who are older, menopause comes as  a time of freedom in our lives. This may be the total opposite of what a younger woman will feel about it so I hope you will find a place where your unique concerns can be met.

  Meanwhile, thank you for giving this topic one more chance to get a wider audience so that more women can start shifting their misconceptions on this topic and hopefully doctors will also learn to broaden their understanding of the wide variation of ages where menopause can be expected to be a natural event. This one resolution of this issue alone will make a huge difference in many woman's lives.
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