Perimenopause, 34

My doc confirmed for me yesterday ("You're feeling that through the Ortho-tricyclin?!") that I am, in fact, perimenopausal. Night sweats, hot flashes, memory shot to hell (as if it were stellar before), moody (more so). Switched me to Orth-Evra (hormones in a patch), because normally the first offensive against the symptoms is to go on a birth control pill (hm) but said she didn't promise anything. Goody. She did offer the advice that if Scooter and I were planning to have a second child, we'd better get to it.

Geez, what is this like without the pills already in your system? I keep conjuring up Kitty Foreman on That 70's Show.