My Menopause Blog

It’s time for a weeks worth of seriousness dear blog readers.
Besides being a natural stage of a woman’s reproductive life cycle, menopause is a major cash cow for the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry. The latest pill to ‘win’ FDA approval is Wyeth’s new antidepressant Pristiq.
I say ‘win’ with great intention. Getting a new drug […]

There’s a new way of framing our forgetfulness that I would like to encourage all menopausal women to consider and perhaps embrace.
Miss Remembering recently got her 15 minutes of glory during the ‘did the pro baseball dudes pump themselves full of steroids or not’ congressional hearings in the states. According to both sides, there was […]

It’s minus 10C with a wind chill that makes it feel like a jaunty minus 20C.
While everyone else is wrapped up beyond recognition, my menopause let’s me get away with a vest and stylish hat.
Sure, the frozen people think I’m nuts but so what. At least I’m a comfortable nut.
Sue Richards
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About 10 days ago, my brother told me that he’d just started talking 5,000 units of Vitamin D a day. It’s been a year since he completed cancer treatment and even though he’s back to work - his tail has been dragging behind him ever since.
According to bro - within two weeks of popping the […]

Today was our first 30C day of the season. There I was, sitting in my doctors office, a stuffy rather rustic space with no central air, discussing something non-menopause related when a hot flash from hell decided to BBQ me right on the spot.
I quickly did a clothing adjustment followed by a hair tie trick […]

Yesterday I described the newly named but not new menopausal symptom ‘The Stupid’s’. Now - I will describe an example of a recent outing involving me - a two year veteran of ‘The Stupid’s’ and the inventor of ‘The Stupid’s’, a fresh, brand spanking new merry peri-pausal gal.
The plan seemed simple enough. I would […]

I have been kind in my previous posts about the distinct loss of memory that seizes the early days of the peri-menopausal. Sure - I have expressed indignation, shock and horror at my limited ability to walk from one room to the next holding the same thought. And I have been embarrassed by the distinct […]

I no longer have hot flashes. Hot flashes have me.
Sue Richards
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