The Mad, Bad Menopause Thread

summerof0763

Torry_Quine wrote: »

I have to wonder what Healthspan must think with all these orders for Sage. :rotfl:

funny I was thinking the same thing when I ordered lol.
but I know for sure I will praise them to everyone as although the difference is small just now it's an improvement on how I was.
think we need to make more people aware about sage tablets, because until I started my thread on the menopause, I had never heard of them, x

marmitepotato

They work! They really work! I only found them after googling the menopause . They are a godsend

Artytarty

Yay Summer! We started them at about the same time.
I'm still getting them but not so frequently and I'm hoping they will become less bothersome.at least in this heat, if you do get them at the festival, you can always blame the weather!

CH27

I've been having the most awful hot flushes for the past few days.

ERICS_MUM

Torry_Quine wrote: »

I can totally understand you here. Sadly I've never had children and this means that the tiny hope I had has finally gone and I'm just old and shrivelled.

my EX sister in law threw that very description at me the last time she phoned me, just months before my brother filed for divorce. Sorry to digress, but just to say you are not alone.

At the start of my menopause 12 years ago I developed quite serious and long-running depression (under control nowadays) which I have always assumed was somehow due to the hormonal changes.

I also have hot flushes BUT only when I'm in hot or confined spaces - e.g. busy stores that aren't air-conditioned, at a supermarket check-out when I'm struggling to pack my shopping and theres a queue behind me. My scalp is soaked and I can feel perspiration run down my neck and face and drip onto the counter :eek: :rotfl: I've also gone from a very confident and competent senior manager in the city of London to someone who has given up work and has to make lists in order to get through daily life !

Otherwise I've been symptom free. My sister however has night sweats but not daytime hot flushes, and palpitations which she has eliminated by switching to decaffeinated coffee.

red_devil

can anyone advise. I am on the combined pill and periods have ceased been a while. The doctor has suggested a blood test to see if i am at the menopause She says if it comes back as I have then i dont need to take the pill anymore? is this right would you have the test. I have no other symptoms?

bunbun2

I am going to the GP tomorrow so will see what she says. Over the last week I have been feeling worse, aching joints and a general foginess.

System

Can I join you please?

Well i'm not sure i'm in the menopause. At the age of 51 I ought to be but i'm not so sure.

I thought i'd gone through it without a question 18 months ago after an absence of periods that lasted 13 months. Then out of the blue I had two periods in February and March of this year. Ive had nothing since.

I remember my Mother going through hot flushes but ive not experienced anything like them as yet. My memory is pretty shocking but I think that's down to the medication I take.

Apart from that I am symptom free. Im going to ask the doctor to test my hormones when I am due my next blood test. I might know where I stand.

swampduck

Can I join too please? :wave:
At 52 I am officially working my way through the menopause - I know that - because a couple of years ago I was feeling so tired, drained, pooped and however you want to describe it - falling asleep on a washing line at a moments' notice would not have been impossible!! that I went to the Doctors' and he did a range of blood tests which all came back normal but did reveal that all the little symptoms that I had been experiencing that didn't add up to anything specific could be tagged under the menopause!!
He also told me that it is possible to buy/have a test which will reveal near enough how many periods/months/years before it's all over. But I didn't follow up on it - mainly because I'm not sure how I'd feel knowing that I had still had 5 years of periods still to go or whether I'd be depressed that life and age was creeping up on me!!
The hot flushes come and go - loads in one day or none at all for weeks. Funnily enough with all the hot weather we had been having I had even forgotten about having hot flushes until it dramatically cooled down weather wise and I was still rather flushed and warm!! It was just a timely reminder that all was not over yet!!
I need to read up more about HRT and the menopause so that I'm a little more informed - at the moment I'm just taking things as they happen where as a colleague of mine has been on HRT for years - she came off it around a year ago and everything has kicked in big style!! Memory loss,tears,hot flushes you name it, it's happening - she's kicking herself for not trying to see it out without HRT because in her eyes it just put off the evil moment!!

Because I was sterilised 20 years ago - the issues of not having babies or coming the end of a fertile time isn't something that had occurred to me but I can quite see how other women may be affected now. My mum had an enforced hysterectomy in her forties and I remember my Dad saying she was hell on earth to live with - so I'm unable to find out any more family history regarding her and my aunties. But this thread has opened my eyes to the fact that the menopause can start when women are still really young.

Swampy

DUKE

I was absolutely thrilled when my first dose of chemo stopped my periods dead in 2009. Since then my behavior has became rather odd I've turned into a raging lunatic! :eek: I'll just check the rest of the thread before I admit to anything more