Sue Richards, regular Canadian gal, heats up as her reproductive Best Before Date expires.
Tuesday, 13 March 2007
My in-box offered up a menopause news story from the The Post-Bulletin today that I thought I’d share.
“The first thing that one must acknowledge about menopause is that the term technically applies to only one day in a woman’s life; the day she has lived one year without menstruating.
It’s the years that follow when symptoms become an issue.
“Menopause truly does last one day,” said June LaValleur, a gynecologist with the University of Minnesota. “Postmenopause lasts for the rest of your life.”
“Every woman’s an individual and they experience menopause differently,” said Dr. Melanie Johnson, a family medicine physician at Olmsted Medical Center in Rochester. That means her postmenopausal symptoms are defined by what she experiences, not by what a list of typical symptoms might suggest.”
Read the full story here.
Technically speaking, I’m not menopausal just yet. No - my day of menopause glory has yet to arrive - and in fact is officially 11 months away at the earliest thanks to a recent visit by my petulant punctuation formerly known as •.
So as I linger in the peri-pool and read this news story, I’m struck by one sentence. “It’s the years that follow when symptoms become an issue.”
Sooooo what, I wonder, have I been experiencing this past 20 odd months if not ’symptoms that I have issues with’?
Sue Richards
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March 14th, 2007 at 12:40 am
Hi - I just found your blog tonite, and I confess I haven’t read all of your previous posts. But from your question, it sounds like you’ve been having those perimenopausal symptoms that we’ve all at least heard about, if not experienced. It’s quite amazing what a teeny tiny amount of hormonal fluctuation can do to a body!
There are a number of over-the-counter remedies which, for the most part are safe. Unless, of course, you have a family or personal history of breast cancer. I’ve known women who have used Remifen with great success. For others, it does nothing. For myself, I found Chinese medicine was enormously helpful. In fact, it was my irregular menstruation followed by menopause which led me to become an acupuncturist. It was so effective that I chose to change careers.
Love “The Sleeveless Turtleneck”!