My Menopause Blog

Sudden menopause can be brought about a number of ways but surgery is the most common reason. Here are two very familiar surgeries that lead to an instant and dramatic drop in your hormone levels.
Oophorectomy: you have both of your ovaries removed.
Full Hysterectomy: you have your ovaries, uterus and both fallopian tubes removed.
Even if you […]

Menopause does not always arrive on the life stage coach at the appointed time. Just like everything else in life, menopause has it’s own variation on the reproductive ‘best before date’ expiry theme. This week I’m going to touch down again on a couple of these variations. To see previous posts on this topic, click […]

Breast of Canada Calendar customer and author Karin Banerd, contacted me with news of her book, Menopause Before 40: Coping with Premature Ovarian Failure
Given my posts about Sudden and Premature Menopause over the last few weeks, and the fact that My Menopause is not Sudden or Premature, I thought the title would make a good […]

I hope I didn’t put anyone off with my graphic description of Sudden Menopause this week. (please check previous posts) I’m not one to sport rose coloured glasses. Yet my nature is to see the glass as half full. Still, when a spade is a spade it’s unlikely I’ll call it a shovel.
If you get […]

So you’ve been hit broadside by a speeding menopause bullet train to hell and you’re up to your eyeballs with symptoms that make whacking yourself over the head with a 2×4 seem like a fun idea.
What now?
Alas, there is no special treatment for you my friend. You get BIG symptoms, but no quick fix.
And….yes there’s […]

I’m on a roll here.
My own experience with “the Pause” is rather tame and easily paced. I’m 47. My biological clock is ticking as it should. I moan about my missing mane and spend to much time trying to find things that I’ve forgotten the name of. My period comes, goes, goes, goes, pops […]

Not everyone comes to menopause naturally and in their own time.
Sudden or early menopause is common and usually very traumatic for the woman and her family. Sudden menopause can be brought on by or be due to an autoimmune disorder, a hysterectomy, anorexia, chemotherapy, a reaction to medication or radiation.
Women younger than 45, who experience […]