Menopause, if you have a story to share...

LadyEmeraude

LadyEmeraude

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Menopause was a tough time for me. Peri menopause symptoms
greeted me at 47 years old. I was in full Menopause at 50 years
old and through 55 years old. I am so glad there is not a repeat
of this in my life.

Anything about Menopause, male members feel welcome to
join in, comments, questions, etc.
 

LadyEmeraude said:

Menopause, if you have a story to share...​

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Let me cut to the chase. I can sum up menopause in four words. Just...kill...me...now!
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Don't know what all the fuss is about. As soon as I had strange symptoms, I went to the doctor. He told me it was the menopause, put me on HRT and that was it.....no more problems.
 
Lavinia said:
Don't know what all the fuss is about. As soon as I had strange symptoms, I went to the doctor. He told me it was the menopause, put me on HRT and that was it.....no more problems.
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It's great for those who sail through it or have a helpful doctor but, many are not so lucky, not all GP's will prescribe HRT and not everyone is able to take it. If a woman is experiencing difficulty with menopausal symptoms, she is not making a fuss.
 
Love it! No more periods! Had no symptoms except during winter I had to turn the heat up to 100 and open all the windows. This December it will be 25 happy no period years!

I was very grumpy during my periods. I know, hard to believe but true. Had to warn folks to stay the hell away. I think my husband deliberately started up, like a challenge......... :ROFLMAO:
 
Lavinia said:
Don't know what all the fuss is about. As soon as I had strange symptoms, I went to the doctor. He told me it was the menopause, put me on HRT and that was it.....no more problems.
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Lucky you. But everyBODY is actually different, experiences physical issues differently. And HRT is not a blessing for all: My breasts got swollen and sore. But then i have often had anomalous reactions to meds that are helpful or at least benign for others.

Menstruation had never been a problem for me, unless i had bad cold or flu at same time. It was quite regular 28 days like clockwork which was helpful because i had no PMS symptoms to alert me it was due until i was in peri-menopause But i was well aware this was not the case for everyone.
 
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I had my daughter just weeks after turning 37 and had my tubes tied before leaving hospital. It was 1983 and they labeled it a 'geriatric pregnancy' (Then stressed me more by making me have go to prenatal visits further from my home.) So i figured it was best.

Breastfed baby for a year. Apparently my uterus still had same reaction to no embryo attaching only not regularly and for first time in my life i had PMS symptoms, including cramps and awful headaches. Then i discovered that if i took a large dose of ibuprofen the bleeding would start and once it did the PMS symptoms stopped. This went on for 9 yrs tho over the years the flow got less frequent.

Saw a doctor in 90 or 91 tho at that time at least the medics i saw would not diagnose me as menopausal till i had not had any flow for a whole year--which it took till 1992. Tried HRT at that point but as i said in #12 comment it made me feel worse. Only tried it cause then spouse was a nurse and he thought it would 'level out my moods'. It did not occur to anyone that i was in late 40s working on my BA with two high school age boys, a 9 year old daughter and a husband who worked night shifts and did very little around house unless asked (much like most kids).

Plus, i developed a slew of allergies (mostly to chemicals) and intolerances (to foods, healthy ones that i'd eaten with impunity my whole life). Gee, what the H*LL did i have to be moody about???? I would later learn that stress was a huge factor in all that and once my stress level was lessened a considerable amount of the intolerances went away tho about 12 years later my body started reacting badly to some of some my favorite veggies again likely due to age related changes in my body.
 
Lavinia said:
Don't know what all the fuss is about. As soon as I had strange symptoms, I went to the doctor. He told me it was the menopause, put me on HRT and that was it.....no more problems.
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You were fortunate to take HRT and have no further problems, It is an option many females can consider for the menopause symptoms.
 
Lavinia said:
Why suffer when there is medication which will help?
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HRT did not work for me personally, it caused further problems.
It is a Go-to standard treatment of course and many females benefit from it.

I chose to use other treatments via supplements and other natural means,
meds. Still I experienced a difficult Menopause through those years.

I think it is great Lavinia that you experienced positive benefits from HRT. ;)
 
I think one issue is that it is difficult to separate menopause moodiness from moodiness caused by other things.

For example, I have been feeling moody. I am currently in transition to menopause. There are also a lot of stressful things going on at work. Either of those by themselves could cause moodiness. And of course the combination of both them could cause moodiness.

And that is not counting bad weather, allergies and stressful things not related to work.
 
Except for a few months in my late 30's when I was taking some horrible medication to shrink the tumors, I never suffered menopause. The medication gave me unbearable hot flashes with Niagara Falls-class sweating. Absolutely unbearable. It was deeply embarrassing.

A complete hysterectomy at 40 took care of everything. HRT for a few years....absolutely no menopause symptoms.
 
I was happy to stop having periods, especially since before menopause I would get a bad migraine every month when my period started. I did have some tissue dryness but it went away after a while.

But the hot flashes, OMG, millions and forever. I was still having to take ice packs to bed with me 10 years after menopause. I hated them so much when I was interviewing for jobs because the interviewer would ask a question and I'd turn bright red and break into a sweat. I'm pretty sure the last job I had, prior to retirement, I got because they hired based only on phone interviews.

Even now I will get a few hot flashes, usually at the most awkward moments, like at the self checkout if the machine calls the attendant.

Editing to add - I had a estrogen sensitive cancer so I wouldn't have been a candidate for HRT (as I understand it, maybe different nowadays).
 
Trish said:
Off topic I know but @LadyEmeraude I am struck by how much you and @KathyB1968 resemble each other! I am assuming the avatar photos are you and Kathy and not someone famous who I don't recognise? :)
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Mine is an AI image. I typed in a general description of myself and this is the image I got.

AI defaults to young faces, but you can make it show middle aged or older faces
 
KathyB1968 said:
Mine is an AI image. I typed in a general description of myself and this is the image I got.

AI defaults to young faces, but you can make it show middle aged or older faces
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Hi @KathyB1968 Welcome to the forum. :)

I haven't used A1 so didn't know it could do that. I think that's clever, it's a nice image (y)
 

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