At 48, Ive always been a fairly fit and healthy person - but the night sweats, hot flushes, insomnia, nausea is making me grumpy
I'm eating / drinking soya products to get eostrogen into my body but not taken HRT, mainly because that only delays the symptoms, your body has to go through it somehow - just trying to sit and ride it out
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Estrogen replacement doesn't have to be in the form of synthetic medicines( but don stop it if u r on it without consultation)
Try using a combination of 2 parts wild yam, 2 parts licorice, 3 parts sasparilla, 2 parts spirulina, 1 part vitex, 1 part ginger, 1 part false unicorn root, 2 parts sage, 1 part cinnamon, 2 parts gingko, 2 parts gotu kola, and 1/2 part black cohosh, daily. This can be made in tea form, or the powders can be blended and made into capsules, or you can mix together the tincture forms of these herbs, and take 1/2 to 1 teaspoon daily.
add HONEY AND PALM DATES TO THE RECIPE ( BY ANY WAY )
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i am dawn bev not to bad yet but feel somewhat different . it is driving me crazy too. batman where can i find all of this stuff?
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Been there, done that, got the T-shrt and binned it. Came out the other side reasonably unscathed. However, the 3 years at its peak were horrendous! I honestly thought I was going insane.
Batman's "cure" above is actually very sound, if you can be arsed putting it all together.
Best just to ride it out, if you can and don't want to resort to HRT.
Japanese women are used to soya and the inclusion of soya in their diets is often cited as a reason as to why they rarely suffer from menopausal systems. In fact, some research suggests they suffer as much as anyone else, but the culture they live in means that, in short, they are less likely to complain! However, other evidence suggests that soya can help.
Linseed and Soya bread (Vogel is best) is good. Take care with other soya products, as the can be counter-beneficial if your body is not used to a lifetime of having them.
One thing I would insist that your doctor do and that is to have your bone density checked regularly. If you have switched to soya milk, you may be depriving yourself if calcium.
Night sweats? Linen or cotton sheets on the bed AND NOTHING ELSE. Nothing on you, either. If your partner does not like it, send in to the spare room, if you have one, or tell him tough.
Hot flushes? Keep a fine spray of cold water with a drop of lavender oil in it with you. When you feel a flush comiing on, spray your face. If you can, run your wrists under cold water. If at home, pop an ice pack from the freezer in your cleavage. Many a time I have answered my door with a few ice packs sticking out my top. One cheeky delivery man asked if I was trying to shrink them (I'm rather busty).
Insommnia? Just get up and accept it. Worrying abouut it or trying to get back to sleep will raise your temperature and you'll end up with a hot flush as well.
Nausea? I never did overcome that one fully, being the gannet that I am. I was advised to try an arrowroot biscuit and go for lighter meals. However, the arowroot biscuit usually turned into the whole packet, so I gave that up. Funnily enough, fennel tea was a great help in cooling me down and stopping the worst of that sick feeling. So was hibiscus (karkade).
Hope this helps.
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It hadnt occurred to me that there would be less calcium in Soya milk.
I love Soya and Linseed bread - probably eat too much of it!
I sleep on egyptian cotton bed linen from M&S - they are lovely, no partner but sometimes my son will come in wanting his back scratching!
Have a large bag of Hibiscus from my last trip to Egypt so I can make some kerkade tonight.
someone has just mentioned vitamin D - currently in the UK our skin and bodies cannot produce enough, not enought sunlight - another reason for more holidays in Egypt!!
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You can get vit D and calcium in one tablet, take with it Evening primrose capsules and it should help. Posts: 290 | Registered: Feb 2005
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I was lucky...... I was thrown into instant menopause when I had chemotherapy 10 years ago...... missed the whole horrible experience.... give or take a few hot flushes!!! Posts: 4238 | From: USA | Registered: Jul 2004
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I think it is an personal matter, how you expierence this getting older issue. I shall name it an issue and not a problem. When it is a problem, it is something in the head, and when it is an issue, it is just something that happens to everybody at a certain age. Of course things show up that are not so nice, but it is only temporary. Delivering baby`s is also not a very nice feeling, and we all surive this too! So, just accept and try to live with it. It comes and goes, and it is a part of a woman`s life...
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quote:Originally posted by ?????: So, just accept and try to live with it. It comes and goes, and it is a part of a woman`s life...
I am getting confused, I thought on another post you said you were a man. If you are a man I don't think you should be telling women to just accept and live with something if you don't know how it feels. Posts: 3809 | From: Paradise | Registered: Mar 2003
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First of all, I never said that I`m a man, second, why shouldn`t a man give adivice about this? Should it be okay if a should be a male doctor? Or a psychologist? There are numbers of situations imagionable when somebody is taking advice from a person who never has had the same expierence... Posts: 7202 | From: EU | Registered: Nov 2006
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And don`t be so suspicious, Penny. We all are anonymous persons behind a nick and when you take a look at the way somebody usually is making conversation, you will know soon enough it is meant or not. Reliable or not. Expierenced or not. Just look at it in a wider perspective without getting personal. Then it can be usefull...
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There is nothing useful in advising someone to just live with something. Thankfully this is not the advice a doctor would give whether male or female. Posts: 3809 | From: Paradise | Registered: Mar 2003
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my doctor told me to use 1500mil.of calcium 1 fish oil vitaman and 1 multi vitiam.so i tryed it and it is working so far
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quote:Originally posted by Penny: There is nothing useful in advising someone to just live with something. Thankfully this is not the advice a doctor would give whether male or female.
Well, maybe that`s a cultural difference. My doctor does. He is a development aid-docter and a sports-docter,both specialised in it, and when you`re complaining about something what will disappear by itsselve, he doesn`t give anything. His last advice, when I returned from Egypt with another new infection, he said: Just stay away there. That country obviously has to much vestors for you...
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When a woman reaches menopause, she goes through a variety of complicated emotional, psychological, and biological changes. The nature and degree of the changes varies with the individual.
Menopause in a man provokes a uniform reaction. He buys aviator glasses, a snazzy cap and leather driving gloves, and goes shopping for an expensive foreign sports car.
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* You sell your home heating system at a yard sale. (Hot flashes)
* The person you sleep with complains about snow piling up on the bed. (Nightsweats)
* Your husband jokes that instead of buying a wood stove, he is using you to heat the family room this winter. Rather than just saying you are not amused, you shoot him. (Mood swings)
* You write post-it notes with your kid's names on them. (Memory loss)
* Your husband chirps, "Hi honey, I'm home." and you reply, "Well, if it isn't Ozzie f*cking Nelson". (Irritability)
* The phenobarbital dose that wiped out the Heaven's Gate Cult gives you four hours of decent rest. (Sleeplessness)
* You find Guacamole in your hair after a Mexican dinner. (Fatigue)
* You change your underwear after every sneeze. (Mild incontinence)
* You need Jaws Of Life to help you out of your car after returning home from an Italian restaurant. (Sudden weight gain)
* You ask Jiffy Lube to put you up on a hoist. (Dryness)
* You take a sudden interest in "Wrestlemania". (Female hormone deficiency)
* You're on so much estrogen that you take your Brownie troop on a field trip to Chippendales. (Hormone therapy)
Been there had it done it and still im young but im a man or am i, i dont know any more oh jee help im going through a crises Look ladies its nothing relax and listen to some relax tapes or you can get this new gadget you can take it anywhere and it eases you and relaxes you its pretty cool .Go to some health shops they help .
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Stay sexual active it keeps your hormones kicking and you breeze thru the menopause...honestly it worked for me hahahha take care my friends.....Lucy
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