Menopause Matters

choille

Well all menos hope things are going not too bad for 2011.

It's been hailing huge marbles this morning & then snowed quite heavily while we were trying to get some old fence posts back down here for fire wood. It's pretty chilly so I'm going to cower indoors & try & work out turbo lister & do some ebay listing - I really don't know what I'm doing but trying to blunder along & get the clutter away & some pennies in.

We won't get the house finished this year but hope to get it wind & water tight & then we can work indoors.

I have put on weight, but that's because of not doing much outdoors so hopefully once the weather picks up I should get more active.
I have eventually been given a physio appointment for next week so that's a good thing as I seem to be stiffer than ever & really painful about the hip - ridculous having to wait 2 & half months & I phoned up & hassled. Turning into a grumpy ole woman & don't feel embarrassed to complain these days.

Hope things go well for all & we have a really wonderful year.

joyfull

Morning menos,

How are you all? Been awake since 3am, but feel ok as i went to sleep v early & have cobbled together sort of enough. I'm staying with boyfriend for the w/e and have forgotten my makeup double eeek!!! Discovered that a little cornflour might do as face powder. In daylight I'll probably look close to death.

choille - good news on physio front. Get your nhs 'moneys worth' & ask loads of questions & get stuff you can do yourself. Looks like you're getting the snow again. Stay on that electric blanket ALL DAY is you have to! Ebay turbo lister? crikey that's sounds awesome, hope it brings in some turbo pennies.

shykins - sorry about the flushing. Aren't they a blurry nightmare. What was mother nature thinking of when she came up with them?

Bronnie - you are our exercise inspiration. no pressure though! I do a self styled balancing thing on one leg and it subtly strengthens my leg muscles. I'm thin and have poor muscle tone so falling (again) is a concern. I also walk each day. Every miniscule amount helps.

Hi dogcat - hope you have a good weekend & all is well in your world.

Blowing a gale here in kent. We're off to the library & supermarket. Will be taking a piping hot coffee in a jam jar all wrapped up in a towel to drink in a car park. Cannot affort to buy coffee out. Now BEAT THAT for [STRIKE]stinginess [/STRIKE]money saving :money:

Hippeechiq

:wave: Happy New Year ladies

I wonder
How little sleep we will have survived on,
How many things we will have forgotten,
How many times our mood will have fluctuated,
How much we'll have perspired,
How much our bones will have thinned,
How far south everything will have drooped and
How much extra facial hair we'll have by this time next year?

Just thought I'd cheer you all up :rotfl:

nappentass

HAPPY NEW YEAR LADIES

Sorry it's belated - we only got online at the weekend! although we managed to get moved before the new year - now surrounded by boxes and can't remember where anything is :rotfl: at least I've got an excuse :rotfl:
Over a week without internet has been quite enlightening - we got so much done with our time - it vanishes so quickly when on a pc :eek:

So I've had plenty of exercise shifting stuff and thankfully have been sleeping like a log - I do suspect stress play quite a part in meno symptoms because mine seem to be lesser since the move and I am feeling loads happier, been getting more activity
Take care all

Rowan9

Hi folks. Haven't posted lately as been a bit zapped but read regularly and thinking of you all. Hope the Christmas and New Year period was good to you and yours. keep warm but not too hot!
W

Hippeechiq

Hello all - just wanted to pick your brains.

I've got mid length hair (couple of inches past my shoulders) and I've been colouring it for quite a few years now as I started going grey in my late 20's.

This past 12 months in particular it's just constantly one big ball of static, and it's driving me mad. If I attempt to brush it, it just sticks to my face.....ARGHHHH

I used to straighten it everytime I washed it, and wondered if the straighteners were the problem, so for the last 6 months I've allowed it to be it's natural wavy/curly state, which isn't a pretty site! lol, and so I have to wear it up all the time.

I only brush it straight after washing it, allow it to try naturally, and then put it up in a pony tail or bun type jobby. The thing is, none of this has made a blind bit of difference to the static, so now I'm wondering if it's all down to hormones?

Anyone else have the same problem?

choille

Hippy - have you changed your footwear, carpets etc over to nylon as that is what creates static in me? I have a pair of boots that actually make me get electric shocks off the car door & the caravan - it's the crepe type soles that does it.

Hope everyone is getting on okay.

Joyful hope you had a nice time at BF & no one thought you were a corpse with your pale & interesting pallour. That's very good idea for the coffee. I'm bad at having a coffee out when we're out - mind you we do have to cover a fair distance & well.....it's a treat but is getting a bit dear.
If I go to Morrissons in Inverness I scan the carpark for the back of parking vouchers as you get the cost off food/coffee/shopping. You always manage to find a couple either for £1 or £2!

nappantass - glad things are easier for you & less stress. It's hard to know sometimes what is connected & what helps & doesn't but I've been stuck with the weather & that hasn't helped as I'm not getting any exercise -that affects me - sleep everything.

Bronnie

Hippeechiq wrote: »

Hello all - just wanted to pick your brains.

I've got mid length hair (couple of inches past my shoulders) and I've been colouring it for quite a few years now as I started going grey in my late 20's.

This past 12 months in particular it's just constantly one big ball of static, and it's driving me mad. If I attempt to brush it, it just sticks to my face.....ARGHHHH

I used to straighten it everytime I washed it, and wondered if the straighteners were the problem, so for the last 6 months I've allowed it to be it's natural wavy/curly state, which isn't a pretty site! lol, and so I have to wear it up all the time.

I only brush it straight after washing it, allow it to try naturally, and then put it up in a pony tail or bun type jobby. The thing is, none of this has made a blind bit of difference to the static, so now I'm wondering if it's all down to hormones?

Anyone else have the same problem?

YES MEEEEEEE!!

It's been driving me crazy!

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My hair is long and coloured too, but straight. I never brush it actually! My static problem only started recently. I am putting it down the having the heating on at home a lot and the heater blasting in the car....don't ask me why or if it's scientifically possible, but that's what I think. I was in Debenhams a few weeks ago and was actually getting static shocks from the clothes rails......must have been really charged up that day!!

I also have been wearing scarves and snoods a lot in the cold weather, mostly soft acrylic knitted ones and this has really been exacerbating things, when I pull them off over my hair. Eventually on Xmas Eve I went in M&S and bought a 100% wool scarf, which has helped. Also smoothing a bit extra conditioner through too.

Curious isn't it!!

ETA Just googled this and it is to do with the drier humidity in colder weather which allows the charge to build up.....which explains my problem, but not why you've been suffering for 12 months hippi!!!

Hippeechiq

Yeah exactly!

When it started happening a year ago, I also g00gled it, and thought, yep, that's it then - all will be well come spring when the heating goes off......but it hasn't happened

Haven't changed my footwear, carpets or anything else choille, and I'm slapping loads of conditioner on to try and add moisture to my hair, but it's making no difference. I can't really use an overnight deep penetrating one, as it would take all the colour out of my hair! (My hair is very fine, and therefore porous, so the more I wash it and condition it, the more the colour comes out, and I don't like to do it more than every 4 weeks, not least because of the cost.

Ohhhh the pleasures of maturing :rotfl:

choille

Like Bronnie I have a New Year surprise - got the painters in.

Felt like going mental the last few days - like PMT to the power of 100. Talk about mood swings - I could swing for anyone the way I'm feeling. Does anyone have this?