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PERIMENOPAUSE

PERIMENOPAUSE: HORMONE UPS AND DOWNS CAN LAST YEARS

What shapes a woman's reality -- how she sees the world, how she relates to the people in her life, and how she feels about herself?
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/01/10/peri....ause/index.html

Perimenopause

:::raising hand:::

Yes, that's me. And combined with some very dramatic life events over the past year, I've been "brittle as glass" myself. I cry at the drop of a hat some days, stomp around angry some days, and other days I say, "What was that all about?" I'll be glad when it's all over. I'm doubt if I'll seek any treatment, because hormone therapy can prolong the effects of the hormonal change. Let's just get it over with, shall we? Some women go so far as to have a hysterectomy to end the nightmare menstrual changes. Not me, thanks.

My older sister in Tennessee who is now 52 said she found the hormonal rushes and lack of sleep as opportunities to be creative at a time when other women tend feel aggravated and overwrought. She eschewed all treatment, opting to embrace the physical and emotional changes and the transition from her motherhood phase to ... whatever the next level is.

Perimenopause Health & Special Psychology

It's me too. The thing I hate the most is hot flashes. When I first began to experience them, I did some research and discovered they could last up to two years! They were horrible and seemed to occur about one an hour for a period of three weeks. I then started taking some recommended vitamins and supplements, and they went away! I'm not sure if it was the vitamins or just natural on again, off again body changes that occur. Either way, I'm very grateful for the relief and am afraid to stop taking the vitamins I've started. No need to stop, I guess, unless curiousity prompts me to see if it was indeed the vitamins which stopped the symptoms. Vitamin E, primrose oil or black currant oil (this acts as a sedative and diuretic. Good for hot flashes and for the production of estrogen), Vitamin B(5&6), and Lecithin are the most important of the nutrients. Calcium and magnesium are also very important...in case anyone is interested.

Perimenopause

That's good info, about the vitamins and supplements, thanks Valla!

I'm not sure if this runs in my family or if it's common for other people too, but my mother has been having hot flashes for nearly 30 years. Can you imagine? I haven't actually started with those yet, and I don't look forward to it. However, my mother had an unusual hysterectomy at the age of 25, and started taking hormone replacement pills in her late 40's when her hot flashes became unbearable. She's finally off the hormones now, but still has hot flashes fairly regularly. I'll tell her about the vitamins