annie7
05-16-2003, 08:27 PM
I'm 51 and post menapausal i presume. I haven't taken anything, haven't 'done' anything, just have gotten on with life. (I did, however, go through some major mid life stuff and went to counceling which was wonderful!)I do exercise at least 4 times a week, have been a vegetarian (oops..i eat fish and eggs and cheese) for over 10 years and love soy products. I have been through some major trauma though in the last two years, but other than that, no symptoms...I guess I'm fortunate!
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Mary49
05-17-2003, 02:08 AM
You are very lucky . I am 49 and the last 12 months have not been very good. Have a migraine headache every day of my period . Have flooding. Also mid cycle I also get a migraine. I have been very irritable and just dont feel like myself anymore. I will be glad when I go through menopause, will go out and celebrate!
MrsKramden
05-17-2003, 02:25 PM
Annie ! That's terrific. I am so glad to know how insignificant (without symptomatic changes) your menopause was ! :D
I do think that you should go to a gynecologist, though, just to check everything out. From what I understand, losing one's period can mean many other things, too . That's why I was a bit freaked out when I started to skip, I thought the worst and ran to a doctor.Especially in my early 40s when I didn't really think it'd be peri-menopause.It was, though.
I was really worried that he'd want me to take HRT because, you know, the way it's advertised , you tend to think that everyone who menopauses has to take it. Well, I didn't have to. I also am a vegetarian (I eat cheese too ! :)). I don't think it's the soy products so much that helps as the not consuming the meat which has hormones in it. I think that by not eating meat, we may prevent our hormones from being further imbalanced.
I have a friend just like you who NEVER went to a doctor when she changed over and she said she didn't have any symptoms except stopped menstruating !
Best wishes ! :)
I do think that you should go to a gynecologist, though, just to check everything out. From what I understand, losing one's period can mean many other things, too . That's why I was a bit freaked out when I started to skip, I thought the worst and ran to a doctor.Especially in my early 40s when I didn't really think it'd be peri-menopause.It was, though.
I was really worried that he'd want me to take HRT because, you know, the way it's advertised , you tend to think that everyone who menopauses has to take it. Well, I didn't have to. I also am a vegetarian (I eat cheese too ! :)). I don't think it's the soy products so much that helps as the not consuming the meat which has hormones in it. I think that by not eating meat, we may prevent our hormones from being further imbalanced.
I have a friend just like you who NEVER went to a doctor when she changed over and she said she didn't have any symptoms except stopped menstruating !
Best wishes ! :)
MrsKramden
05-17-2003, 02:30 PM
Originally posted by Mary49:
You are very lucky . I am 49 and the last 12 months have not been very good. Have a migraine headache every day of my period . Have flooding. Also mid cycle I also get a migraine. I have been very irritable and just dont feel like myself anymore. I will be glad when I go through menopause, will go out and celebrate!
Oh Mary, I pray your symptoms go away this instant. Hang in there, though. The day my gyne told me I was in Menopause was one of the happiest days of my life ! It almost felt like that time when I first got my first period - something was milestone about it. I am so glad, I know you will be happy. It's a different feeling all together.
You are very lucky . I am 49 and the last 12 months have not been very good. Have a migraine headache every day of my period . Have flooding. Also mid cycle I also get a migraine. I have been very irritable and just dont feel like myself anymore. I will be glad when I go through menopause, will go out and celebrate!
Oh Mary, I pray your symptoms go away this instant. Hang in there, though. The day my gyne told me I was in Menopause was one of the happiest days of my life ! It almost felt like that time when I first got my first period - something was milestone about it. I am so glad, I know you will be happy. It's a different feeling all together.
annie7
05-17-2003, 08:52 PM
Mary, I'm sorry you're have such a bad go of it. I was a bit hesitant to say how easy it was with me because honestly, when I'm having a difficult time with something,and someone nonchanlantly says.."Oh really? I haven't had a problem!" it makes me want to slap them. I'm just very fortunate in that area but I also think what MrsKramden said makes sense about the meat and hormone thing. I hadn't though of that before. I dont' like giving advice, but I will suggest exercise. Maybe that will help. I know that when I was pregnant for the first time I started getting headaches really badly. At my period it would be the same thing, horrible ones..now, I dont' get them so much except when the weather causes my sinuses to act up.
MrsKramden..thanks so much for your reply and what you said about the hormones in meat. It really does make sense. I know that I should go to the doc, but I have this thing about doctors. That's another post though. Again, thanks for your reply!
MrsKramden..thanks so much for your reply and what you said about the hormones in meat. It really does make sense. I know that I should go to the doc, but I have this thing about doctors. That's another post though. Again, thanks for your reply!
MrsKramden
05-18-2003, 09:55 PM
Originally posted by annie7:
MrsKramden..thanks so much for your reply and what you said about the hormones in meat. It really does make sense. I know that I should go to the doc, but I have this thing about doctors. That's another post though. Again, thanks for your reply!
I am going to be perfectly honest with you and maybe you won't feel so bad.
I had gone to a gynecologist in 1985.Thereafter - NONE until 2001 (actually the day before 9/11).I had been like you . I was afraid , not of doctors, but of the possible findings. When I started getting used to going for mammograms and they were normal, it broke some of my fear of "diagnosis", but I still wasn't going for PAP smears regulary, even being sexully active.It was way too many years to not go to a gynechologist.
When I got a very painful period in August of 2001, I knew I had to get it checked out. She was not a good doc-refused to test me for peri-men. Went to another doc nine months later because the horrible symptom of nausea hit and I knew I had to do something . Really, that's the only reason I went. I just had to know what made me so nauseas and I felt it was connected to my cycle and it was.(It is considered a rare symptom but it exists). I turned up Peri-Menopause and in March of this year- full blown menopause. You will go to the doc when you are ready. I understand your need to be psychologically ready.
MrsKramden..thanks so much for your reply and what you said about the hormones in meat. It really does make sense. I know that I should go to the doc, but I have this thing about doctors. That's another post though. Again, thanks for your reply!
I am going to be perfectly honest with you and maybe you won't feel so bad.
I had gone to a gynecologist in 1985.Thereafter - NONE until 2001 (actually the day before 9/11).I had been like you . I was afraid , not of doctors, but of the possible findings. When I started getting used to going for mammograms and they were normal, it broke some of my fear of "diagnosis", but I still wasn't going for PAP smears regulary, even being sexully active.It was way too many years to not go to a gynechologist.
When I got a very painful period in August of 2001, I knew I had to get it checked out. She was not a good doc-refused to test me for peri-men. Went to another doc nine months later because the horrible symptom of nausea hit and I knew I had to do something . Really, that's the only reason I went. I just had to know what made me so nauseas and I felt it was connected to my cycle and it was.(It is considered a rare symptom but it exists). I turned up Peri-Menopause and in March of this year- full blown menopause. You will go to the doc when you are ready. I understand your need to be psychologically ready.