|
Post by preraph on Feb 19, 2009 14:32:15 GMT -5
I think HGB was probably just trying to champion her cause. But there are lots of reasons to take hormones post-menopause, which may make you continue to have periods. Many good reasons.
|
|
|
Post by happy2bchildfree on Feb 19, 2009 14:37:32 GMT -5
I was reading how Helen Gurley Brown took hormones just so she could have periods. She always struck me as being rather odd, so that doesn't surprise me.
|
|
|
Post by happy2bchildfree on Feb 19, 2009 14:48:56 GMT -5
But there are lots of reasons to take hormones post-menopause, which may make you continue to have periods. I took HT for a short time, and at the time it was prescribed I was told the hormones could be manipulated to either make me have a period each month or stop them altogether. Needless to say, that was an easy choice. I was so glad to be rid of that monthly stuff.
|
|
|
Post by preraph on Feb 19, 2009 19:37:23 GMT -5
Yeah, I wouldn't miss them, but no one has offered me any alternative. I need them.
|
|
|
Post by cnu5000 on Feb 23, 2009 7:36:09 GMT -5
I have another friend who was going through peri-menopause who said she wanted to enjoy her periods while they lasted which I do not understand.
|
|
mar
Full Member
Posts: 237
|
Post by mar on Feb 23, 2009 10:09:11 GMT -5
I have another friend who was going through peri-menopause who said she wanted to enjoy her periods while they lasted which I do not understand. WHAT ?? Is she serious ? ENJOY? Wow, all I can say is Wow!
|
|
|
Post by limeygirl on Feb 23, 2009 12:37:00 GMT -5
Maybe its a youth thing. I'm looking forward to them stopping but not all the changes that happen after that.
|
|
|
Post by happy2bchildfree on Feb 23, 2009 14:47:20 GMT -5
Maybe its a youth thing. I'm looking forward to them stopping but not all the changes that happen after that. I think it is the youth thing, the feeling that they are still "young" because they are still having periods. I can't imagine what anyone could possibly find enjoyable about the period itself--unless they enjoy cramps, sore breasts and the like. It surprises me how so many younger women are under the impression is that their bodies will be the same after menopause as they were before, just without the periods. They are in for a rude awakening.
|
|
|
Post by preraph on Feb 23, 2009 21:30:30 GMT -5
Um, well, there are some down sides to postmenopause that can definitely make you feel "not young" anymore. They're too personal for most women to share. I had to quit hormones once and I decided it was worth the risk to resume hormones so I was still fully functioning and enjoying myself.
|
|
|
Post by happy2bchildfree on Feb 24, 2009 13:12:15 GMT -5
Um, well, there are some down sides to postmenopause that can definitely make you feel "not young" anymore. They're too personal for most women to share. Well,yeah, there are the very "personal" downsides and I won't go there, but the things I had in mind are things like weight gain, changes in body shape, difficulty losing weight, and just not getting the results of exercise like we got when we were younger. Those seem to be almost universal complaints among women my age.
|
|
|
Post by cnu5000 on Mar 5, 2009 7:26:45 GMT -5
I am definately have more trouble keeping my weight down. One sign of age I don't like is that I am starting to need glasses to read-a more noticible sign of age.
|
|
Nyx
New Member
Posts: 13
|
Post by Nyx on Jun 6, 2010 14:25:35 GMT -5
menopause varies from lady to lady on how you react to it ... I had one major hot flash a week after my hyster and that was the first and last of it ... I can't tell the differance from being as I am now to how I was before I hit menopause like a brick wall (I use to go months to years with out a cycle - got to love PCOS).
Only thing I can say is that some women say that going on to HRT can help with menopause, I can't say since I've not dun that myself - though I did start a few months ago some herbal stuff for it and the side effect is that sex doesn't hurt as it did before the hyster (till hyster I never new sex without pain).
|
|
|
Post by preraph on Jun 6, 2010 16:41:35 GMT -5
I've always been on HRT as mine are naturally low, and couldn't do well without it at all, physically anyway. Wouldn't be functional. I went off for a short time in the 80s after cryosurgery and had immediate bad effects, pain, etc.
|
|
|
Post by Miss Night Owl on Jun 9, 2010 8:42:13 GMT -5
I'll definitely be looking into HRT when I need to. I know a great doctor who uses bioidentical hormones so I'll consult with her, if she's still around.
A friend of mine had breast cancer at an early age and was put on tamoxifen. That puts you into menopause pretty much right away, and it was hell for her - she was depressed and had all kinds of awful physical problems. Plus that drug increases the risk for uterine cancer by a whopping degree. She went off tamoxifen and is doing her best to prevent possible recurrence by taking care of her health overall. Hard choices to make, but she's doing well thankfully, and it has been about 10 years.
|
|
|
Post by cnu5000 on Jun 15, 2010 15:41:33 GMT -5
I have a friend who has breast cancer where the treatments pushed menopause. She is very upset about it even though she was in her late forties when it happened. She is also upset that she can not have HRT even though I think most women now don't take it.
I am fifty and some of my female friends have stopped having periods and they say they are happy about it. I am on the low dose birth control pill so they can't tell where I am in menopause and may take me off them to see where I am.
|
|
Nyx
New Member
Posts: 13
|
Post by Nyx on Jun 19, 2010 2:53:28 GMT -5
I can understand a woman wonting to keep her cycles, as a woman who can count on her fingers and still have a few left over as to how many cycles I had in my young life before hitting menopause I know I would have like to have had a regular cycle instead of going months or years between them till nature stopped them for me, and medical science make it a perm deal.
Only thing I can say is that for some its a wild ride that nothing short of HRT will help for others you don't even notice a change.
|
|
|
Post by preraph on Jun 19, 2010 18:13:47 GMT -5
I could do w/o the periods but not the hormones!
|
|
|
Post by cnu5000 on Jun 29, 2010 7:20:47 GMT -5
I think it makes a difference if women stop having their periods over 40. Younger women I think may find it more unsual that they don't have periods but over 40 it becomes more normal for women not to have them.
|
|