I cannot understand why the menopause is still shrouded in secrecy. Everyone I know thought that it was simply the end of your potential childbearing life and that some people sailed through it while others had vague problems such as hot flushes.
We should shout from the rooftops that menopause is a time where your body reacts to the lack of oestrogen with mega changes.
Suddenly you may get debilitating hot flushes, night sweats, mood swings, vaginal dryness, reduced sex drive, fatigue, poor concentration, low moods, anxiety, incontinence, vulval atrophy, atropic vaginitis, palpitations, muscle pains, osteoporosis etc., etc.
But do we hear of these things? NO
Menopause is only natural when we live approximately to the age of fifty. But now we are living almost twice as long. We have almost half a lifetime to “exist” after our oestrogen supplies are used up.
Post menopause is a time of deterioration for women but today we have a solution for the great majority of women. If you have no medical contraindications you can replace the oestrogen your body no longer supplies. It is a game changer!
If you suffer from diabetes you are deficient in insulin and you supplement it.
If you suffer from thyroid problems you supplement thyroxine.
If you are deficient in oestrogen you supplement it with hormone replacement therapy.
The benefits of HRT are overwhelming. It protects your heart and blood vessels, it protects your bones from osteoporosis, it protects your brain from Alzheimer’s, your colon from cancer, your eyes from cataracts, your skin stays younger looking, your vagina does not atrophy, you don’t have mood swings, the palpitations, anxiety, macular degeneration, difficult sleep and hot flushes.........
I could go on and on.
You have a choice OP. Take the medically proven route and replace the oestrogen your body needs or spend a fortune buying quack “over the counter” snake oil remedies.