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RE: Peri-Menopause and Menopause Support - 9/4/2007 1:54:26 PM   
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RE: Peri-Menopause and Menopause Support - 9/4/2007 2:10:21 PM   
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ORIGINAL: wareaglekd
I truly feel this is an important time in a woman's life & you have to be close to the Lord during these years. W/o Him, you are bound to have severe issues afterwards. I feel my mother has gone completely bonkers since menopause & doesn't have a very good relationship w/ the Lord. I had a panic attack last fall that taught me to always be in close relationship w/ Him at all times.

Take care ladies! kd


Amen to that!
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RE: Peri-Menopause and Menopause Support - 9/4/2007 3:17:47 PM   
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Got room for another car on this train?


Sure!


I still have not had a period. Went to Wal-Mart and picked up a preg test...NEGATIVE.

I am not liking this one bit, because now I know I will start sooner or later, but don't know when to be prepared.
I just know I am going to be somewhere and start...EEK... it's High School all over again!!

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RE: Peri-Menopause and Menopause Support - 9/4/2007 3:25:31 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Memaw.
I just know I am going to be somewhere and start...EEK... it's High School all over again!!


High school with maturity! LOL!
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RE: Peri-Menopause and Menopause Support - 9/4/2007 6:39:32 PM   
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I think that I am at the start of some changes going on. I am 38, soon to be 39 next month. I have experienced bad PMS (mood swings, feeling overall yuck). My period is still pretty regular, but I have had EXTREMELY bad cramps and heavy bleeding. I missed a day of week a couple months ago because I couldn't get off the heating pad. Also, for about 6 months or so I have experienced night sweats. They come about a week before my period comes and they last until my period is over. I get the sweats every night during that time. I wake up dranched, it's gross. I'm due to see my gyno soon and I will discuss these things with him.

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RE: Peri-Menopause and Menopause Support - 9/4/2007 8:09:09 PM   
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I sure am glad I am not the only one who is having these issues. Speaking of hot flashes, or flushes (depending where you live), today I got all makeuped up, hair all fixed and ready to go, then sweat it all off and frizzed my hair just going from the back door to the car (15 feet).

I had to have the air conditioner on full blast in the car, all 4 of the vents turned on my face for about half an hour before I cooled down.

On top of all this other junk, I woke up this morning with a huge honkin zit right below my lip.

I am sooo attractive.

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RE: Peri-Menopause and Menopause Support - 9/4/2007 9:03:25 PM   
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Status: offline 		Kim, you're cracking me up!! I had one last week - middle of my nose, just below where my glasses hit. What is THAT about?

I switched to powder foundation - it stays on better in the heat, which we're at like 40 days of above 110 (nice record, I didn't really want to know about it, but there ya have it) - anyway, sidetracked there - the powder foundation stays on better. Might give it a try. Covers these post-teen blemishes pretty good too.

And I keep my place pretty cool too - especially at night or I can't sleep. AND I have a fan blowing on me.

Good thing I'm single, I don't think I could handle anyone else's body heat near me. LOLOL

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RE: Peri-Menopause and Menopause Support - 9/4/2007 10:18:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		Couple more questions...do your periods stop for good? Or are they just very irregular? I remember my mother buying feminine hygiene products for my grandmother who would have been well past the menopausal stage... ???? Someone said that they were taking meds to make sure that they had their cylces approx every three weeks or so... why? Do you have to do this? Isn't this SUPPOSED to happen? I don't understand why she's having to take meds to have a period if she's in menopause.

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RE: Peri-Menopause and Menopause Support - 9/4/2007 10:21:26 PM   
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RE: Peri-Menopause and Menopause Support - 9/4/2007 10:27:47 PM   
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ORIGINAL: VisitorinWaiting

Couple more questions...do your periods stop for good? Or are they just very irregular? ....


Someone said that they were taking meds to make sure that they had their cylces approx every three weeks or so... why? Do you have to do this? Isn't this SUPPOSED to happen? I don't understand why she's having to take meds to have a period if she's in menopause.


Eventually they stop for good. However, sometimes they can become very irregular for several years before stopping. Some women choose HRT or something like that to make their periods regular, lighter and to control the hormones so that they aren't dealing with the other menopause symptoms.

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I remember my mother buying feminine hygiene products for my grandmother who would have been well past the menopausal stage... ????


Sometimes femine hygiene products are used to help with a leaky bladder.
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RE: Peri-Menopause and Menopause Support - 9/4/2007 10:29:23 PM   
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ORIGINAL: VisitorinWaiting

Couple more questions...do your periods stop for good? Or are they just very irregular? I remember my mother buying feminine hygiene products for my grandmother who would have been well past the menopausal stage... ???? Someone said that they were taking meds to make sure that they had their cycles approx every three weeks or so... why? Do you have to do this? Isn't this SUPPOSED to happen? I don't understand why she's having to take meds to have a period if she's in menopause.


They will stop for good eventually. Sometimes though the peri-menopause stage can last many years before it does stop.
My mother still had a couple of cycles a year at the age of 66.
The meds were probably hormone replacement, which I don't know if I would want to go that route or not.

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RE: Peri-Menopause and Menopause Support - 9/4/2007 10:31:45 PM   
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Kim, you're cracking me up!! I had one last week - middle of my nose, just below where my glasses hit. What is THAT about?

I switched to powder foundation - it stays on better in the heat, which we're at like 40 days of above 110 (nice record, I didn't really want to know about it, but there ya have it) - anyway, sidetracked there - the powder foundation stays on better. Might give it a try. Covers these post-teen blemishes pretty good too.

And I keep my place pretty cool too - especially at night or I can't sleep. AND I have a fan blowing on me.

Good thing I'm single, I don't think I could handle anyone else's body heat near me. LOLOL


I have the temp set at 70 day and night...I am freezing everyone else out of the house but...hey, I'm comfortable!
You know the saying, if Mama ain't happy, nobody's happy.

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RE: Peri-Menopause and Menopause Support - 9/5/2007 12:21:42 AM   
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And I keep my place pretty cool too - especially at night or I can't sleep. AND I have a fan blowing on me


me too, I have the a/c set to about 73 and then blow the fan right on me. I'm glad Larry works nights or I'd be freezing the poor guy out.

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The meds were probably hormone replacement, which I don't know if I would want to go that route or not.

I never say never, but I'm pretty sure I will not use any hormone replacement. I just don't like ingesting hormones, but that' just me. I don't judge anyone else who does it. Whatever works I guess. =) I didn't use bcp either.


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I have the temp set at 70 day and night...I am freezing everyone else out of the house but...hey, I'm comfortable!


our electric bill was 410. last month so I don't set the a/c way down like that. We all have window units in our bedrooms so everyone just sets it where they need it and the one down here in the main part of the house is set for 73.

as to the Endometrial ablation I'm not really sure what the point is other than getting rid of the period. I mean wouldn't we still have hot flashes and all the other stuff? From what was said about it I don't see it as a cure for menopause.


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I still have not had a period. Went to Wal-Mart and picked up a preg test...NEGATIVE.

Kim, you have no idea how many pg tests I took, 'cept I'd go to the dr because insurance covered it. And Larry's been snipped, so I really didn't have a reason to check. It was just paranoia. one time I told him I thought I was because I was so late and he got really upset, saying it couldn't be his. So I never mentioned it to him again. I told him he ought to know I don't like sex enough to do it with someone else anyway. (let alone I'd just not do something like that anyway but it just isnt' a temptation)

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ORIGINAL: Ps103
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I just thank God for air-conditioning

welcome aboard!
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RE: Peri-Menopause and Menopause Support - 9/5/2007 10:00:28 AM   
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as to the Endometrial ablation I'm not really sure what the point is other than getting rid of the period. I mean wouldn't we still have hot flashes and all the other stuff? From what was said about it I don't see it as a cure for menopause.

I don't understand it either.

I have an 18 yr old tubal ligation so I shouldn't worry about being pregnant, but knowing me, if the percentage of probability is 00.1%, I'm that one!

Yea, Rick said the same thing, who do you think the dad is?

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RE: Peri-Menopause and Menopause Support - 9/7/2007 12:08:05 PM   
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Our A/C is set to 64 at night.

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RE: Peri-Menopause and Menopause Support - 9/7/2007 12:18:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		I had an endometrial ablation at the end of January.

I have had no return of menses.

However, the hot flashes, intermittent irritability and forgetfulness continue.

I hope I never see the return of AF. I'm done making babies.

41 and menses free....... works for me.

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RE: Peri-Menopause and Menopause Support - 9/7/2007 12:29:37 PM   
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I bought my ticket 5 years and refused to use it. But now...I guess I just can't deny it anymore.

Dadgummit!

I don't have night sweats - I just sweat ALL THE TIME! It's really quite annoying.

My periods are still on a 28 day cycle - but they have niagara falls proportions and then just as suddenly, cut off - it's just weird.

and very, very, very painful...I mean seriously...painful and way clotty - disgustingly so.

and PMS???? oh puhleaze... we'll talk more later
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RE: Peri-Menopause and Menopause Support - 9/7/2007 12:29:53 PM   
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forgetfulness continue


Forgetfulness???
I get embarrassed sometimes because I know exactly what I am wanting to say and for the life of me I can't remember the word.

I stopped to talk with a lady at Wal-Mart the other day and the entire conversation went like this,

Her: Is your granddaughter going to the same preschool this year?
Me: No, umm, she is going to.....o crud, what is the name of that place? It's just across from the...o the place you mail letters...
Her: The Post Office?
Me:Yea! It's that one church, you know, the big one, has the...things that make music on the hour?
Her: Bells?
Me: Yea! The bells, o, what is the name of that place? It's right in front of the elementary school that my kids went to...sits on Lincoln Street.
Her: Lincoln Elementary?
Me: Yea! It's the church right in front of that.
Her: Methodist Church?
Me: Yea! THAT

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RE: Peri-Menopause and Menopause Support - 9/7/2007 12:45:10 PM   
Memaw.


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Status: offline 		I am sooo glad to see this train filling up!!
And ladies, the air conditioning is cranked up all the way!

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RE: Peri-Menopause and Menopause Support - 9/7/2007 12:48:44 PM   
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Status: offline 		My gynecologist says I'm in perimenopause, and she put me on Yasmin (birth control pills) so I don't have a period every two weeks. The meds really help a lot, but the week I take the blanks (so I have a period, oh joy) is the pits. It just so happens that I'm in that week right now, and the fatigue, cramps and backaches have been worse than usual. And does anybody here have COLD flashes as well as hot flashes? I'll be sitting watching TV or something, and all of a sudden I'm just goosebumps all over.

I have a friend who had an endometrial ablation for extremely heavy bleeding, and she was very pleased with the results. A few years later she had a total hysterectomy, and she delights in telling me how wonderful it is not to have periods anymore.

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RE: Peri-Menopause and Menopause Support - 9/7/2007 2:27:11 PM   
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and difficulty focusing on anything for too long

and being really forgetful about things that used to be important to me

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what was I saying

oh yeah...having your emotions runneth over is such a joy to my husband as well
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RE: Peri-Menopause and Menopause Support - 9/7/2007 2:51:11 PM   
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And does anybody here have COLD flashes as well as hot flashes?


I went to bed the other night, and put my feet on Rick, he yelped saying they were like ice, but I couldn't tell.


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having your emotions runneth over is such a joy to my husband as well


Oh yea, I can go from bawling like a baby to being rather ticked off in about a .5 second span.
Rick just walks around not knowing what to do...hehe, keeps him on his toes.

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RE: Peri-Menopause and Menopause Support - 9/7/2007 8:41:40 PM   
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RE: Peri-Menopause and Menopause Support - 9/7/2007 9:15:37 PM   
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RE: Peri-Menopause and Menopause Support - 9/7/2007 9:18:04 PM   
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I only wear a jacket no matter how cold it is, I never feel cold. I actually had a lady at church stopped me outside telling me what a bad example I am for my children because I don't wear a proper coat.


My husband did that to me all winter last year.

I told him that if I wear a coat I start sweating and then I could get really sick and I didn't think that would be a good example either.