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There’s a dangerous myth going around that states that your body is all bouncy and resilient until menopause, but that’s simply not true. There’s another dangerous myth that suggests that, so long as you don’t have children, all the child-bearing related body parts will remain in pristine condition. Your vagina will remain this magical power box, your boobs will point up and out, full of hope, and your hips will stay, well, within this world. That’s also not true. And it’s not fair that we are told these things because some of us make a lot of decisions based on these myths—decisions like what clothes to buy and which foods to eat and how many margaritas to drink. Suddenly, we have to pay the reaper that we thought was still twenty years away. Here are 20 body changes nobody tells you will come before menopause.

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Hangovers that last all day

You can no longer count on 10 hours of sleep and a bacon sandwich to get rid of a hangover. Oh no. The day after drinking is completely shot to hell. Simply reading one sentence of an article makes your brain feel like it is melting.

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Feeling the burn after a workout

And it’s not a good burn. It’s like a, “Oh my god I cannot get out of bed why do I even exercise?” type of burn. It’s an, “I probably overdid” it type of burn, but you feel it even when you did almost nothing at all.

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An inability to wear tall heels

You can’t even drink your way through the pain. Your ankles, toes, and arch scream at you for wearing heels that are over three inches tall. You don’t even buy tall heels anymore because you know they’ll end up in the donation pile.

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An inability to day drink

If you have one and a half cocktails before 5 pm, you get very happy, then very sleepy; then you go to sleep, then you wake up cranky, and then you’re hungover until the next day. This all happens in about two hours from that first drink.

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Extreme anger that comes with trouble sleeping

An energy drink cannot pull you up from a bad night’s sleep anymore. Oh no. You are now a very, very angry person if you are just the tiniest bit sleep deprived. You could swear the entire world is filled with imbeciles.