What's up with my skin?
06-11-2009, 08:39 PM
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Man-oh-man am I enjoying this thread :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Try sage tea for hot flashes - worked for me. You can get it in tea bags at a health food store. I made it from REAL sage, chopped 20 leaves up real fine, steeped in boiling water for 4 minutes. Great as ice tea, too.
Can't remember who said she had a hysterectomy and gets to miss menopause. WRONG :twisted: had MY H at 42; Had M at 48. It's just waiting for you to get REALLY smug :cry: :cry: Reread previous paragraph. :cry: :cry:
And as for the DH's, Doc's, and other males who try to blame every little thing you do that they don't like on MENOPAUSE, start blaming everything they do on 'the seven year itch' and see how they like it. :evil: :evil: :evil:
We notice our flaws more than anybody else does - try not to obsess too much :? And if you're saying, 'Easy for her to say' - I was bald for several months from chemo, and I DID NOT WEAR A WIG :!: :P Life's too short to worry about what's not really important. Go with what you've got. You may find out that it's better than you thought :wink: :wink:
Try sage tea for hot flashes - worked for me. You can get it in tea bags at a health food store. I made it from REAL sage, chopped 20 leaves up real fine, steeped in boiling water for 4 minutes. Great as ice tea, too.
Can't remember who said she had a hysterectomy and gets to miss menopause. WRONG :twisted: had MY H at 42; Had M at 48. It's just waiting for you to get REALLY smug :cry: :cry: Reread previous paragraph. :cry: :cry:
And as for the DH's, Doc's, and other males who try to blame every little thing you do that they don't like on MENOPAUSE, start blaming everything they do on 'the seven year itch' and see how they like it. :evil: :evil: :evil:
We notice our flaws more than anybody else does - try not to obsess too much :? And if you're saying, 'Easy for her to say' - I was bald for several months from chemo, and I DID NOT WEAR A WIG :!: :P Life's too short to worry about what's not really important. Go with what you've got. You may find out that it's better than you thought :wink: :wink:
06-12-2009, 01:23 PM
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Originally Posted by kwhite
In August I am going to see "Menopause the Musical" I can't wait.
06-12-2009, 05:53 PM
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I missed menopause by having a complete hysterectomy. I was started on hormones immediately after surgery so I have never experienced menopause. If I stop taking my estrogen, I'll go immediately into menopause. I have no ovaries to produce the slight amount needed to get through menopause. I have been to many specialist and they all said I have to take the estrogen or shrivel up and be one mean old lady. My ex GYN said I didn't have to take estrogen, my body would adapt. He was so wrong and told me that was why there was specialist to go to. :evil: I know several of his patients that did not take estrogen and they look twenty years older than they should. I don't take progestin or equine estrogen. Women who undergo menopause as the result of a hysterectomy can take estrogen alone. It's a personal decision but I would definitely get a specialist opinion.
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