My Menopause Blog

Here’s some good news.

It is generally understood that your breast tissue density can affect incidence of breast cancer. Besides masking the cancer in routine breast examines and mammograms, dense breasts simply increase our risk of getting the disease.

Enter menopause.

Apparently, and despite feeling quite the opposite, we the menopausal get less dense. Rather, our breasts get less dense. Our brains as we know, get densely foggy.

At least we think we know. We’re not really sure except to say we’re pretty sure that our breasts aren’t getting denser. And if we could just remember what we were thinking, we’d likely say something pretty smart about a related, interesting topic that we used to feel confident about.

When it comes to breast cancer, more dense is not the best direction to go and by the look of things around here, isn’t the direction my breasts are heading. This makes me happy. I think.

As you can imagine, foggy breasts would be another problem. Misdirected, densely foggy breasts pose yet another. I could go on with all manner of dense observations but that would not help our breasts or our minds.

Of course being dense is rewarded in some camps. And denseness is scorned in others. Particularly when the density is found both in the mind and the breasts. Depending on whom you talk to, double dense can be the butt of many jokes and the trophy of many men.

Sounds dense I know.

Sue Richards

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