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#31
[quote=watterstide]
You are supposed to be helpful and tell me that this s..t will go away! At almost 54 the hot flashes and night sweats are more than just a bother.
Oh no...my surgeon told me that menopause can run from 5-13 years, depending on the woman and family history. My mother died at 42 and my Gram at 54 so I never found out how long their menopause would've lasted.
Originally Posted by Buckeye Rose
Originally Posted by Honchey
Hi, Surgical menopause 41 yrs ago and have been on Premarin since then. started with the highest dose ..currently on the lowest. I have tried to stop using the meds altogether but the nightsweats and mood swings are just too much for me at 71.
You are supposed to be helpful and tell me that this s..t will go away! At almost 54 the hot flashes and night sweats are more than just a bother.
#32
Originally Posted by DogHouseMom
I'm on the cusp, no symptoms except lack of regularity. I'm going to avoid HRT like the plague if I can, have heard too many nasty bad things about it, including the treatment of the horses for some of them.
After a year on HRT I weaned myself off of them because of all those bad possible side effects
#33
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Baileys Prairie, Texas
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Get off Premarin if at all possible. My totally unscientific test dealth with me and 5 other women in my office who all were taking Premarin. All 6 of six came down with breast cancer (of different kinds). That was in 2002. All had surgery and various types of chemo or radiation. In 2010 I came down with a second bout of it. The only common deminator was the Premarin. None of us had a history of breast cancer in the family. It was not proven, but you would have a hard time getting our group to not believe Premarin had something to do with it. We had all been on Premarin from 5 to 10 years.
#34
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Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 324
I must be lucky in a lot of ways. I was never able to get pregnant, and suffered from horrible entrometriosis, resulting in a hysterectomy when I was 42 years old. I believe my total menopause symptoms lasted all of 3 days, and since that time, never had any. also, i do not take estrogent replacement becuase of all the bad things I hear about it. I am now 64 years old, have been happily married for 17 years and have an active life with my husband. AS I said, I was lucky, except for never being able to have children.
#36
I've just toughed it out. Night sweats started at 42. Went through the change in menstrual cycles and hot flashes and celebrated more than one year without one back in May, and not yet 50. (October, yea ;-| ) I had heard of natural stuff like St Johns Wort etc but didn't know about giving up sugar or uping the vitamin E.
Still have the occasional hot flash but not like before. My sister the advanced practice nurse tells me they continue with decreased frequency until death. That we lose the ability to cool quickly after becoming over-heated. She is better educated on this than I and at 13 years my senior, more personally experienced as well (lucky me!!). Told me it would take ten years but I started early (relatively, for someone with no medical issues) and finished quickly (8 years instead of 10).
Still have the occasional hot flash but not like before. My sister the advanced practice nurse tells me they continue with decreased frequency until death. That we lose the ability to cool quickly after becoming over-heated. She is better educated on this than I and at 13 years my senior, more personally experienced as well (lucky me!!). Told me it would take ten years but I started early (relatively, for someone with no medical issues) and finished quickly (8 years instead of 10).
#37
I have been taking Flaxseed Oil and black Cohosh. Eating a mainly vegetarian diet. Still had "power surges" especially bothersome at night.
Added one 400IU vitamin E a day and started adding soy (milk and flour) to my diet, HOT FLASHES WENT AWAY COMPLETELY!!
Fingers are crossed, it has been a couple of months, but it is SO nice not to have the hot flashes. I am 55 and still having irregular periods.(one every 3months or so).
Added one 400IU vitamin E a day and started adding soy (milk and flour) to my diet, HOT FLASHES WENT AWAY COMPLETELY!!
Fingers are crossed, it has been a couple of months, but it is SO nice not to have the hot flashes. I am 55 and still having irregular periods.(one every 3months or so).
#38
Originally Posted by TanyaL
Took a low dose of estregen prescribed by my doctor, sometimes changed nightgowns in the middle of the night, sometimes blessed out the family, put weight on around my middle, DIDN'T get cancer from the drug, didn't get wrinkles as long as I took the drug, didn't get depressed as long as I took the drug. Hated to give it up but got worried about taking it more than 20 years. When I quit taking it my face wrinkled, my weight bloomed and my spine curved!
#39
Originally Posted by Nona
Get off Premarin if at all possible. My totally unscientific test dealth with me and 5 other women in my office who all were taking Premarin. All 6 of six came down with breast cancer (of different kinds). That was in 2002. All had surgery and various types of chemo or radiation. In 2010 I came down with a second bout of it. The only common deminator was the Premarin. None of us had a history of breast cancer in the family. It was not proven, but you would have a hard time getting our group to not believe Premarin had something to do with it. We had all been on Premarin from 5 to 10 years.
#40
Originally Posted by fratcat
I must be lucky in a lot of ways. I was never able to get pregnant, and suffered from horrible entrometriosis, resulting in a hysterectomy when I was 42 years old. I believe my total menopause symptoms lasted all of 3 days, and since that time, never had any. also, i do not take estrogent replacement becuase of all the bad things I hear about it. I am now 64 years old, have been happily married for 17 years and have an active life with my husband. AS I said, I was lucky, except for never being able to have children.
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