Joint pain, joint swelling, paranoia, depression, anxiety, hair loss, hair growth, flooding, back pain, acne, mood swings, incontinence, weight gain, sore feet, hot feet, night sweats, tinnitus, food intolerances... I could go on. I’ve had symptoms since I hit 40, I’m about to turn 50. No doctor thought my symptoms were hormonal until I was about 48.
Omg … all this :( hugs 🧡 I just went through meds to lower my estrogen because of inflammation, and i got joint aches esp in hands and then month 2, I had rolling hot flashes with anxiety! I told the nurse I don’t know how anyone can do this and Im telling myself I need this to stop 😞
Yes we need to rethink women’s health. Women are constantly not believed and not listened to by doctors at any age. Problems that are not understood are being dismissed or ridiculed, women are being told to get boyfriends or have a baby to help them stop ‘overthinking’. Anxiety and hormonal fluctuations are being shut down and women are told they are hypochondriacs and whiny. How is it possible that a young male doctor tells a 30 something year old woman that the abnormal stuff she is now experiencing but has never before in her entire life, is absolutely normal? Nothing is wrong with her. It’s infuriating to think or believe that a woman doesn’t know her body already at that age and she is talking bs. I don’t personally know a woman that has been treated kindly and professionally by a male doctor when it comes to women’s health problems. And not to bash all men, there are plenty dismissive female doctors as well but not that many and not the same degree.
From my point of view as a man I need to say that living with a woman going through the change of life can be pure torture. My partner slowly turned from being loving to bitter and resentful and all our life goals and ambitions were cast aside. She avoided going to the doctor for nearly 10 years for her gyno health and it severely affected her. I pleaded with her to go get scans because I could tell she was suffering mentally and physically. She went through a bi lateral Laparoscopic oophorectomy the other day to remove a very large cyst on one ovary. She will probably be put on HRT now and hopefully her mood improves. I just want her to be happy.
The LORD is with you and your wife , thank you for loving her and supporting her in this times , thank you for honoring GOD Jesus by loving her , and I’m very sure she sees and appreciates it all you do for her , GOD sees your heart as well , and loves you so much for it ! , menopause is very hard for all women, some are bless enough to not to feel much and others is just hard , and only the ones whom goes through all the symptoms not just hot flashes and dryness , but so many others symptoms like anxiety , depression , and so much more other symptoms will understanding, whatever she is going to be on , weather is Bio HRT or regular HRT or nothing at all , Have hope and much at all faith , you both are not alone GOD is with you .
I'm 45 years old but I've been menopause. Around 2 or 3 years ago, I had a hysterectomy due to miom. In my country, there're some women who have done it. However, it's a bit hard for us to share it to each other. Several of us, including me have honestly been forbidden by our family to talk bout' it, publicly. For, it's still considered a kind of sensitive topic. Furthermore, there're still some who believe that woman must be a mother and the main purposes of married are having children and making a family. I'm so glad I could find the video bout' it and share my menopause experience here. So far, I'm honestly joyful. I never regretted of deciding to do hysterectomy coz' well honestly, being a mom is never been one of my goals. I'm still single but completely happy. Nice greeting from Indonesia.
No one tells you that the symptoms can last forever even if you’re over with the perimenopause!! An aunt is 86 and she still has horrible hot flashes and I’ve had them for 6 years nonstop. To me, it feels like an illness.
@@Roses-lilacmy doctor refuses bc I MIGHT get breast cancer. No one in my family has had breast cancer. CNET's, all the skin cancers, leukemia, etc. No cervical or breast cancer. And I started menopause at 34.
My mother didn’t start menopause until her 50s and had symptoms for at least 10 years. There are SO many things doctors/medical people don’t tell you & many younger women don’t want to talk about it either. 😒
As a midwife in Thailand, this topic is so important to talk to all women and prepare them about healthcare. Especially in my country people didn’t prepare for the menopausal period that much. Thank you for excellent topic.
I appreciate the discussion of different cultures, but I'm from China, where there is still severe gender discrimination, and 'old woman' is a bad name and is never associated with wisdom.
Why so keen to avoid HRT? I didn’t even know what was happening to me. My body aches were so bad I couldn’t climb a flight if stairs, I thought I had dementia because my brain fog was so bad. It was the first thing to help in my case. And then I was able to do the exercise, lifestyle & dietary improvements. The thinking & research has thankfully moved on from the study 20 odd years ago. I was totally unprepared for it. Glad to see people talking about it but surprised by the attitude of some women about it.
for those of us in chemo induced menopause, or any of us post-breast cancer, it's contraindicated. we're even excluded from a lot of the non-hormonal trials, so we need options, too
It’s my understanding that research was conducted about 20 years ago and the conclusion, which is just now being challenged, was that HRT causes breast cancer. Most doctors are reluctant to prescribe HRT, yet HRT is a game changer for women. Because of the established standard of care, lack of knowledge, and in the USA the insurance companies, you are hard pressed to find a Ob-gyn practitioner who is willing to work with you to attain the quality of life you want and deserve
I'm good with the menopause but did suffer insomnia with perimenopause and felt very vulnerable. When I was younger I used to joke with older women about the hot flushes that I had them to look forward too because i was always cold. I don't mind the flushes and agree that exercise and moderating alcohol is key. Great talk WS.
My doctor didn't raise an eye brow when I simply stopped having a period at 47... No warning, no perimenopause. So I trusted that was no big deal since we're not given any guidance or information. Within 2 years, I began a decade battle with constant and crippling anxiety. Sleeplessness and then, insult to injury... The massive night sweats. Long waits to speak to social worker, then therapist, then a psychiatrist. Given up to 4 antidepressants at a time= weight gain. Nothing helped the hardest to cope with, anxiety until I was watching a British comedy and the main character was going through all this. It took seeing how a fictional character in a different country was being cared for to give me enough information to ask "could it be my hormones?" How bad is that!! Within 3 months, that miserable existence I felt so ashamed to admit to, the anxiety had lifted like magic. I was so angry I spent 10 years certain the world could see an expression of "I'm about to cry" look on my face. That gripping fear that kept me housebound and alienated by doctors when it didn't respond to all the mind altering drugs. The withdrawal from antidepressants is worse than you're ever told. At any rate, though I only have a nurse practitioner he did concede that he would be looking much differently at 50 year old women when they came to his practice. Thank F for that!! Women don't deserve to literally have their life span shortened because of incorrect information about HRT. Nor lose our cognitive function sooner due the brain shrinkage. Any illness that puts the body under such stress obviously isn't going to end well for us. Years of basically living in a fight or flight state. Now... How am I going to get back down to the 140lbs I was just 8 months ago, from my now, 185lb body. I thought I hurt before. Carrying an extra 45lbs suddenly (thank you Lyrica) is painful
As a woman of the 21st century and sadly, I didn’t know much about menopause until it hit me like a truck when I turned 54 years old.😢 I wish my doctor had given me a heads-up. I feel like there is a lack of resource for women to go to.
Between 1989 and 1993, inclusion of women in clinical research was NIH policy, but it was not law. In 1993 it was made mandatory. so I’m pretty certain the masses know very little about that right now.
My period stop back in December, 2023 and the only change I experienced during the 1st and 2nd month when my period stop was I feel hot/warm (I think that’s what they call hot flashes) in my office even though the AC is on the right setting so I bought a desk fan and that resolved the issue. I feel humble until now I could say I am really fine living the menopausal life.
I am 45 years old and have been menopause. It started when I was 38 years old and all the symptoms such as hot flashes started actually 5 years ago. It has been a roller coaster, I have a small fan that I carry with me, many people have no idea why I feel so hot all of sudden but I explain it.
women around the world really need to know that hormonal changes affect every part of a woman’s body head to toe including mental and emotional health and personality
There are 3 stages of menopause. Perimenopause which can start in the mid 30s. Menopause, which last ONE DAY! (Exactly one year to the day of your last period.). And Postmenopause, which lasts THE REST OF YOUR LIFE! So you will be post menopausal for 40 years!
I had early menopause due to celiac disease and a few other autoimmune diseases that messed with everything. I was 44 when I was 1 full year without a period, but up to then since my 20s I would sometimes not have a period for 6 months, and then have 6 in a row, every 2 weeks! I was SO HAPPY to be done with that s#*! 😂 that was 13 years ago. I love it! I have a friend who is 47 and is having a very difficult time with peri-menopause. She was very used to "normal" periods, now theyre all over the place. As are her moods! It sucks. And she's got twin boys who will be starting puberty soon, if they haven't already 🤪 I can't even imagine that part of it.
14:28 Yes, this hits the nail on the head. I am a professional returning to a male-dominated corporate world after a career detour, and I am very concerned about having perimenopause "too early" in the workplace. It will show my age and be an excuse for superior male (or self-hating female) coworkers to discriminate against my results or my presence. Also, we need to talk about early menopause. There isn't evidence that it's getting earlier (I think we're just seeing more talk about menopause in general so we see incidence of early/premature more often), but it's more common than you might think.
From my own experience, I can say "stay active". Cycling, running, yoga, dancing and whatever else you might enjoy will continue to be fun ❤ lucky me, I had been doing all that before I went into menopause. I believe this mitigated the negative impact on my health. I am now 59 and still going strong.
Kudos to all those working women who are raising this concern because they have to keep up with the younger generation. When women were stay at home everyone around them just said “mom is getting old, that’s all.” Now it’s time to raise awareness and help for this. We all get old but now we have to work to support us and the health expense. We need help.
I think the reason we do t talk about it, is because abuse patriarchy has told us that our primary value as women is becoming a mother, being fertile. For those of us who were unable to have children, or those who don’t want children, it’s already seen as ‘problematic’ that we didn’t complete our womanly ‘duty’, menopause is another example of that. If we can stop seeing women’s primary value as mothers and view them as a whole person, with our own desires, goals and aspirations, I think this will get better. And, in the US we need to stop conservative men from taking away our rights to bodily autonomy. No man should be determining g a woman’s future!
Started perimeno at 47 ...horrible... the full blown at 52...I'm 54 now and thats7 years of hell. Afraid of HRT because of breast cancer history in my family ...so I will continue to suffer ...while the young moms at work go home whenever their sick kid gets sent home from school and not a blink of an eye
Please, get more information. Even women with the breast cancer gene, 2 gynecologists said they can use the suppository. It helps with dryness and for many, bladder control. Mood and energy, magnolia which is an adaptogen. It’s in health food stores. Please don’t suffer!
I had a blood clot due to a tubal ligation when in my thirties. I’m now 78 and have used bio identical hormones since my early fifties during menopause. I had good doctors who allowed me to stay on through the years of the NH studies and scares of HRT. No clot recurrence and no osteoarthritis, even though I have small bones and haven’t had dairy for 30 years.
That’s our household with twin 13 year old girls going through puberty and me going through perimenopause. My girls and and I have an open conversations and they I go off the rails as they call it, they say oh yes that’s mommy’s menopause though I am not there yet.
@@mauragonzalez3190agree. For the majority of women this is difficult. It's impossible to generalize from your personal experience, each women is different. Estrogen receptors are everywhere and the most bothersome symptoms vary from person to person.
Ive always eat healthy, i remember going to birthday parties and not wanting to eat double chocolate cake because i hate sweets i was laughed at and almost bullied in my husband's British family. I am 52 never had any symptoms, can see my periods aren't regular anymore but i don't suffer any scary effects people talk about. When you have a healthy body menopause is a natural transition and should be smooth in most cases. I remember hearing: Go on have a cake, life is too short😂. I always thought the cake not only shortens your life but makes it miserable too😊
Stop gaslighting. Just because you had it all good does not mean most other women are. Many women lead a healthy life yet have terrible periods pms pmdd etc. the same with menopause. You are an exception not the standard so please stop and read a bit and look at data.
I never ate sweet food and ate very healthy never changing weight. Menopause was a nightmare of 5 years of hot flashes, headaches and joint pain. Currently 62 and on HRT for two years. My osteoporosis is receding to ostoponia and I feel better and healthier than when I was 45.
Yes the first place to begin is with language, menopause is not an illness, we can stop using the word ‘SYMPTOMS’, menopause is not a choice AND our attitude is a choice!
@@yolandalechugabaranda6748 many things occurred for me during menopause both physical and emotional. I chose to overcome rather than see myself as broken!
@@divineceotvit’s high time people are made aware of what’s to come. Especially many women are working at this time. Things go downwards all of a sudden and you are caught out of the blue.
I dont understand as i zero symptoms. 53 still on the mini pill so no periods anyway on this for yrs . I know im in the minority and v lucky . Im slim fit exercise a lot eat well mostly. Never had one symptom .. . Yet ! ❤ i plan on staying on mini pill because i feel well so why not
Okay. Have it your way. I didn’t have one hot flash. I know I went through menopause because slowly but surely I stopped having periods. That. Was. It. And I’m happy too!
@@dreamlife808... lnteresting comment. I am all for positivity and life being fun, at any stage in life. How wonderful for you that BHRT has helped you so much. Unfortunately, there is a large group of women who cannot take any BHRT/HT, sometimes due to having cancer history in the family or having had cancer themselves, etc. They don't have the "luxury" of a choice. They want the quality of life that you have listed. They don't want to suffer. They want to be joyful too, just like you. I suppose that group will just have to work harder on their positive attitude.
SYMPTOMS please Joyce readdress this languaging, this is the patriarchal mindset that has kept women disempowered. Why are women continuing to play along with this languaging and attitude?
We need to change our ideas on this subject because it is more common than we thougt nut less of an issue... . men can have them now, yet still carry on as normal. 😅
Conventional medicine should change the mentality from "fixing" us to "optimising" us. Doctors say peri/menopause is normal and there is nothing they can treat, and therefore send you home. Yet, optimising would look beyond medication strictly, but at the human as a whole - lifestyle, nutrition etc. Looking through the lenses of menopause, the "modern" medicine is pretty retarded, very sorry (and dissapointed) to say. And frankly we're paying far too much for what we get. Personally I'd only like to pay for the resolved issues, not when the doctor shrugs their shoulders.
@@Zlata1Z Yes, there is a particular kind of grief in that. There are those who have chosen not to have children, but this is less discussed, yet I think it has a particular effect/character too. Although menopause is the end of fertility, fertility is not necessarily the be all and end all of a woman's life.
@@jessaabraham How is it not different? Symptoms aren't different, no, but the lack of representation is. The emotional effect can also be different if one is grieving for the lack of a child at menopause, or when having a child is perceived as the only purpose of a woman's life.
You don't go through menopause ,your in it for the rest of your life😢 Maybe GPS shouldn't brush it under the CARPET! TO THIS LADY DARK HAIR FLOWERY DRESS, MENOPAUSE DOSRNT LAST FOR 5TRS! SGE HASNT GOT A CLUE 😮
Joint pain, joint swelling, paranoia, depression, anxiety, hair loss, hair growth, flooding, back pain, acne, mood swings, incontinence, weight gain, sore feet, hot feet, night sweats, tinnitus, food intolerances...
I could go on.
I’ve had symptoms since I hit 40, I’m about to turn 50. No doctor thought my symptoms were hormonal until I was about 48.
Yes, there seems to be a profound ignorance around hormones and how they function in the female body.
Same here, doctors even told me fibromyalgia and suggested anti depressants!
Omg … all this :( hugs 🧡 I just went through meds to lower my estrogen because of inflammation, and i got joint aches esp in hands and then month 2, I had rolling hot flashes with anxiety! I told the nurse I don’t know how anyone can do this and Im telling myself I need this to stop 😞
Yes we need to rethink women’s health. Women are constantly not believed and not listened to by doctors at any age. Problems that are not understood are being dismissed or ridiculed, women are being told to get boyfriends or have a baby to help them stop ‘overthinking’. Anxiety and hormonal fluctuations are being shut down and women are told they are hypochondriacs and whiny. How is it possible that a young male doctor tells a 30 something year old woman that the abnormal stuff she is now experiencing but has never before in her entire life, is absolutely normal? Nothing is wrong with her. It’s infuriating to think or believe that a woman doesn’t know her body already at that age and she is talking bs. I don’t personally know a woman that has been treated kindly and professionally by a male doctor when it comes to women’s health problems. And not to bash all men, there are plenty dismissive female doctors as well but not that many and not the same degree.
From my point of view as a man I need to say that living with a woman going through the change of life can be pure torture. My partner slowly turned from being loving to bitter and resentful and all our life goals and ambitions were cast aside. She avoided going to the doctor for nearly 10 years for her gyno health and it severely affected her. I pleaded with her to go get scans because I could tell she was suffering mentally and physically.
She went through a bi lateral Laparoscopic oophorectomy the other day to remove a very large cyst on one ovary. She will probably be put on HRT now and hopefully her mood improves.
I just want her to be happy.
doesn't matter if she goes there or not, doctors can't stop menopause
The LORD is with you and your wife , thank you for loving her and supporting her in this times , thank you for honoring GOD Jesus by loving her , and I’m very sure she sees and appreciates it all you do for her , GOD sees your heart as well , and loves you so much for it ! , menopause is very hard for all women, some are bless enough to not to feel much and others is just hard , and only the ones whom goes through all the symptoms not just hot flashes and dryness , but so many others symptoms like anxiety , depression , and so much more other symptoms will understanding, whatever she is going to be on , weather is Bio HRT or regular HRT or nothing at all , Have hope and much at all faith , you both are not alone GOD is with you .
You are a truly loving partner. Keep calm and may life improve for both of you.
@@sonyasever7625 Of course menopause cannot be stopped, but there's treatment for the negative side effects.
Why ALL female judges should not be judges. Bitter? No. All out hateful
I'm 45 years old but I've been menopause. Around 2 or 3 years ago, I had a hysterectomy due to miom. In my country, there're some women who have done it. However, it's a bit hard for us to share it to each other. Several of us, including me have honestly been forbidden by our family to talk bout' it, publicly. For, it's still considered a kind of sensitive topic. Furthermore, there're still some who believe that woman must be a mother and the main purposes of married are having children and making a family. I'm so glad I could find the video bout' it and share my menopause experience here. So far, I'm honestly joyful. I never regretted of deciding to do hysterectomy coz' well honestly, being a mom is never been one of my goals. I'm still single but completely happy. Nice greeting from Indonesia.
♥🇬🇧 love your comment. Best wishes.
Good for you 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
No one tells you that the symptoms can last forever even if you’re over with the perimenopause!! An aunt is 86 and she still has horrible hot flashes and I’ve had them for 6 years nonstop. To me, it feels like an illness.
And all you need is a bit of oestrogen!
@@Roses-lilacmy doctor refuses bc I MIGHT get breast cancer.
No one in my family has had breast cancer. CNET's, all the skin cancers, leukemia, etc. No cervical or breast cancer.
And I started menopause at 34.
@@aelwynwitch9460 get another doctor
Asian women suffer less... eat more tofu and soy sauce! 😅
My mother didn’t start menopause until her 50s and had symptoms for at least 10 years.
There are SO many things doctors/medical people don’t tell you & many younger women don’t want to talk about it either.
😒
If it affected us men (negatively in any way) then, as they say, there'd be a cure for it by now.
As a midwife in Thailand, this topic is so important to talk to all women and prepare them about healthcare. Especially in my country people didn’t prepare for the menopausal period that much. Thank you for excellent topic.
I appreciate the discussion of different cultures, but I'm from China, where there is still severe gender discrimination, and 'old woman' is a bad name and is never associated with wisdom.
Why so keen to avoid HRT? I didn’t even know what was happening to me. My body aches were so bad I couldn’t climb a flight if stairs, I thought I had dementia because my brain fog was so bad. It was the first thing to help in my case. And then I was able to do the exercise, lifestyle & dietary improvements. The thinking & research has thankfully moved on from the study 20 odd years ago. I was totally unprepared for it. Glad to see people talking about it but surprised by the attitude of some women about it.
for those of us in chemo induced menopause, or any of us post-breast cancer, it's contraindicated. we're even excluded from a lot of the non-hormonal trials, so we need options, too
@@jessicastevens5782... great comment. 😊
@@jessicastevens5782but they can use the suppository and use homeopathy.
@@jessicastevens5782 you should be happy that you are alive.
It’s my understanding that research was conducted about 20 years ago and the conclusion, which is just now being challenged, was that HRT causes breast cancer. Most doctors are reluctant to prescribe HRT, yet HRT is a game changer for women. Because of the established standard of care, lack of knowledge, and in the USA the insurance companies, you are hard pressed to find a Ob-gyn practitioner who is willing to work with you to attain the quality of life you want and deserve
I'm good with the menopause but did suffer insomnia with perimenopause and felt very vulnerable. When I was younger I used to joke with older women about the hot flushes that I had them to look forward too because i was always cold. I don't mind the flushes and agree that exercise and moderating alcohol is key. Great talk WS.
I am post menopause and have tried HRT and found i had the emotions of a teenager. Happy to unemotional after a life time of very strong emotions 😊😊😊
My doctor didn't raise an eye brow when I simply stopped having a period at 47... No warning, no perimenopause. So I trusted that was no big deal since we're not given any guidance or information. Within 2 years, I began a decade battle with constant and crippling anxiety. Sleeplessness and then, insult to injury... The massive night sweats. Long waits to speak to social worker, then therapist, then a psychiatrist. Given up to 4 antidepressants at a time= weight gain. Nothing helped the hardest to cope with, anxiety until I was watching a British comedy and the main character was going through all this. It took seeing how a fictional character in a different country was being cared for to give me enough information to ask "could it be my hormones?"
How bad is that!! Within 3 months, that miserable existence I felt so ashamed to admit to, the anxiety had lifted like magic. I was so angry I spent 10 years certain the world could see an expression of "I'm about to cry" look on my face. That gripping fear that kept me housebound and alienated by doctors when it didn't respond to all the mind altering drugs. The withdrawal from antidepressants is worse than you're ever told.
At any rate, though I only have a nurse practitioner he did concede that he would be looking much differently at 50 year old women when they came to his practice. Thank F for that!! Women don't deserve to literally have their life span shortened because of incorrect information about HRT. Nor lose our cognitive function sooner due the brain shrinkage. Any illness that puts the body under such stress obviously isn't going to end well for us. Years of basically living in a fight or flight state.
Now... How am I going to get back down to the 140lbs I was just 8 months ago, from my now, 185lb body. I thought I hurt before. Carrying an extra 45lbs suddenly (thank you Lyrica) is painful
As a woman of the 21st century and sadly, I didn’t know much about menopause until it hit me like a truck when I turned 54 years old.😢 I wish my doctor had given me a heads-up. I feel like there is a lack of resource for women to go to.
Between 1989 and 1993, inclusion of women in clinical research was NIH policy, but it was not law. In 1993 it was made mandatory. so I’m pretty certain the masses know very little about that right now.
My period stop back in December, 2023 and the only change I experienced during the 1st and 2nd month when my period stop was I feel hot/warm (I think that’s what they call hot flashes) in my office even though the AC is on the right setting so I bought a desk fan and that resolved the issue.
I feel humble until now I could say I am really fine living the menopausal life.
I’m perimenopausal and exercise is helping. Fighting to carve out those 30 mins in your day for exercise is a solid me time and has great benefits.
Thank you for bringing up the topic. It needed not only to be recognised but also openly addressed.
Psst I'm 44 perimenopausal since my late thirties & I never stop banging on about it.
I am 45 years old and have been menopause. It started when I was 38 years old and all the symptoms such as hot flashes started actually 5 years ago. It has been a roller coaster, I have a small fan that I carry with me, many people have no idea why I feel so hot all of sudden but I explain it.
women around the world really need to know that hormonal changes affect every part of a woman’s body head to toe including mental and emotional health and personality
There are 3 stages of menopause. Perimenopause which can start in the mid 30s. Menopause, which last ONE DAY! (Exactly one year to the day of your last period.). And Postmenopause, which lasts THE REST OF YOUR LIFE! So you will be post menopausal for 40 years!
I had early menopause due to celiac disease and a few other autoimmune diseases that messed with everything. I was 44 when I was 1 full year without a period, but up to then since my 20s I would sometimes not have a period for 6 months, and then have 6 in a row, every 2 weeks! I was SO HAPPY to be done with that s#*! 😂 that was 13 years ago. I love it!
I have a friend who is 47 and is having a very difficult time with peri-menopause. She was very used to "normal" periods, now theyre all over the place. As are her moods! It sucks. And she's got twin boys who will be starting puberty soon, if they haven't already 🤪 I can't even imagine that part of it.
14:28 Yes, this hits the nail on the head. I am a professional returning to a male-dominated corporate world after a career detour, and I am very concerned about having perimenopause "too early" in the workplace. It will show my age and be an excuse for superior male (or self-hating female) coworkers to discriminate against my results or my presence.
Also, we need to talk about early menopause. There isn't evidence that it's getting earlier (I think we're just seeing more talk about menopause in general so we see incidence of early/premature more often), but it's more common than you might think.
From my own experience, I can say "stay active". Cycling, running, yoga, dancing and whatever else you might enjoy will continue to be fun ❤ lucky me, I had been doing all that before I went into menopause. I believe this mitigated the negative impact on my health. I am now 59 and still going strong.
We should be more open about it and don't be afraid to talk to your doctor and your family.
Old age and menopause being seen as positive in Asia? How out of touch from reality is this person?
How ageist are you? Western brainwashing has really done its job on you.🙄
Nothing to do with attitude. Very real.😊
That was a conversation I needed to hear, thank you ❤
I have menopause on my 47. And it's been torturing. But nobody gets me😢
Kudos to all those working women who are raising this concern because they have to keep up with the younger generation. When women were stay at home everyone around them just said “mom is getting old, that’s all.” Now it’s time to raise awareness and help for this. We all get old but now we have to work to support us and the health expense. We need help.
I wish there had been a deep dive at some point expressing fully the experience and ways to seek support and where to go and what to do going forward.
it’s about WAY MORE THAN JUST YOUR REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
I think the reason we do t talk about it, is because abuse patriarchy has told us that our primary value as women is becoming a mother, being fertile. For those of us who were unable to have children, or those who don’t want children, it’s already seen as ‘problematic’ that we didn’t complete our womanly ‘duty’, menopause is another example of that. If we can stop seeing women’s primary value as mothers and view them as a whole person, with our own desires, goals and aspirations, I think this will get better. And, in the US we need to stop conservative men from taking away our rights to bodily autonomy. No man should be determining g a woman’s future!
An inevitable thing for me but i wish to overcome it without any suffering.
You might. Me, for example didn't suffer at all
Started perimeno at 47 ...horrible... the full blown at 52...I'm 54 now and thats7 years of hell. Afraid of HRT because of breast cancer history in my family ...so I will continue to suffer ...while the young moms at work go home whenever their sick kid gets sent home from school and not a blink of an eye
Please, get more information. Even women with the breast cancer gene, 2 gynecologists said they can use the suppository. It helps with dryness and for many, bladder control. Mood and energy, magnolia which is an adaptogen. It’s in health food stores. Please don’t suffer!
Bioidentical hormones will not cause cancer and cleaning up your diet also works!
Hemp (Vitex) drops are wonderful 100%
I had a blood clot due to a tubal ligation when in my thirties. I’m now 78 and have used bio identical hormones since my early fifties during menopause. I had good doctors who allowed me to stay on through the years of the NH studies and scares of HRT. No clot recurrence and no osteoarthritis, even though I have small bones and haven’t had dairy for 30 years.
That’s our household with twin 13 year old girls going through puberty and me going through perimenopause. My girls and and I have an open conversations and they I go off the rails as they call it, they say oh yes that’s mommy’s menopause though I am not there yet.
We are the Wisdom Keepers
Very useful thanks 🙏
I’m 44 and the anxiety hits me..😢
For most women it’s a natural uncomplicated stage in life that provides much more freedom and joy than ever!!
I disagree with you...these phase in life is very hard.....I am 53 years old
@@mauragonzalez3190agree. For the majority of women this is difficult. It's impossible to generalize from your personal experience, each women is different. Estrogen receptors are everywhere and the most bothersome symptoms vary from person to person.
Thank god we are finally talking about it ❤
Excellent discussion 👏
Why cant we have progesterone hrt after a hysterectomy? Im so estrogen dominant on hrt.
I cant wait to reach my "authentic self"!
Thank you! Could you provide the title of the book alluded to? Thank you!
Not sure about that one, but a good one I found is called, "Screaming to be Heard."
Ive always eat healthy, i remember going to birthday parties and not wanting to eat double chocolate cake because i hate sweets i was laughed at and almost bullied in my husband's British family. I am 52 never had any symptoms, can see my periods aren't regular anymore but i don't suffer any scary effects people talk about. When you have a healthy body menopause is a natural transition and should be smooth in most cases. I remember hearing: Go on have a cake, life is too short😂. I always thought the cake not only shortens your life but makes it miserable too😊
Stop gaslighting. Just because you had it all good does not mean most other women are. Many women lead a healthy life yet have terrible periods pms pmdd etc. the same with menopause. You are an exception not the standard so please stop and read a bit and look at data.
I never ate sweet food and ate very healthy never changing weight. Menopause was a nightmare of 5 years of hot flashes, headaches and joint pain. Currently 62 and on HRT for two years. My osteoporosis is receding to ostoponia and I feel better and healthier than when I was 45.
Sigh, this seemed to barely touch on the subject. I wish I had known this 20 years ago.
Yes the first place to begin is with language, menopause is not an illness, we can stop using the word ‘SYMPTOMS’, menopause is not a choice AND our attitude is a choice!
I guess you’re not having the worst of menopause manifestations, because having pain and lack of sleep it does affect your health
@@yolandalechugabaranda6748 many things occurred for me during menopause both physical and emotional. I chose to overcome rather than see myself as broken!
@@divineceotvit’s high time people are made aware of what’s to come. Especially many women are working at this time. Things go downwards all of a sudden and you are caught out of the blue.
I dont understand as i zero symptoms. 53 still on the mini pill so no periods anyway on this for yrs . I know im in the minority and v lucky . Im slim fit exercise a lot eat well mostly. Never had one symptom .. . Yet ! ❤ i plan on staying on mini pill because i feel well so why not
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Is estrogen safe?
Okay. Have it your way. I didn’t have one hot flash. I know I went through menopause because slowly but surely I stopped having periods. That. Was. It. And I’m happy too!
Hagitude is an amazing book!
Longevity is researching a healthy aging treatment where one of the outcomes would be eradicating menopause?
I think diet might help with that
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I started to sweat as a hourse like a year ago... it is awful!!
working out regularly, eating well and lots of natural stuff, pelvic physiotherapy and coconut oil to hydrate vagina
HA! Night sweats - I was afraid I had AIDS since I didn't know if I'd got blood during my C-sections.
Our suffering can make us stronger and more empathetic
@@dreamlife808... lnteresting comment. I am all for positivity and life being fun, at any stage in life. How wonderful for you that BHRT has helped you so much. Unfortunately, there is a large group of women who cannot take any BHRT/HT, sometimes due to having cancer history in the family or having had cancer themselves, etc. They don't have the "luxury" of a choice. They want the quality of life that you have listed. They don't want to suffer. They want to be joyful too, just like you. I suppose that group will just have to work harder on their positive attitude.
SYMPTOMS please Joyce readdress this languaging, this is the patriarchal mindset that has kept women disempowered. Why are women continuing to play along with this languaging and attitude?
We need to change our ideas on this subject because it is more common than we thougt nut less of an issue...
. men can have them now, yet still carry on as normal. 😅
Conventional medicine should change the mentality from "fixing" us to "optimising" us. Doctors say peri/menopause is normal and there is nothing they can treat, and therefore send you home. Yet, optimising would look beyond medication strictly, but at the human as a whole - lifestyle, nutrition etc. Looking through the lenses of menopause, the "modern" medicine is pretty retarded, very sorry (and dissapointed) to say. And frankly we're paying far too much for what we get. Personally I'd only like to pay for the resolved issues, not when the doctor shrugs their shoulders.
No comments about hormones...
Great woman are talking about menopause however there are far better videos and up to date information out there than this one!!
Coming soon for me.. oh, well. Part of a woman's life.
I went to the Newsome Clinic they helped me lot.. I’m feeling great…You would have benefited with having Dr Louise Newsome..
What about women without children? There are many issues associated but this video only talks about women with children.
Are you referring to challenging mental/emotional states of women who reached the menopause prior to an opportunity to experience motherhood?
@@Zlata1Z Yes, there is a particular kind of grief in that.
There are those who have chosen not to have children, but this is less discussed, yet I think it has a particular effect/character too. Although menopause is the end of fertility, fertility is not necessarily the be all and end all of a woman's life.
How is it any different?
@@jessaabraham How is it not different? Symptoms aren't different, no, but the lack of representation is. The emotional effect can also be different if one is grieving for the lack of a child at menopause, or when having a child is perceived as the only purpose of a woman's life.
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You don't go through menopause ,your in it for the rest of your life😢
Maybe GPS shouldn't brush it under the CARPET!
TO THIS LADY DARK HAIR FLOWERY DRESS, MENOPAUSE DOSRNT LAST FOR 5TRS!
SGE HASNT GOT A CLUE 😮
Women romanticize motherhood. When they're 60, they'll still have teenagers to help them grow up.
Some women just need to change thier attitude
India? By 35 you are old. Thanks to USA women in 60 are still considered young.
Generalization at its zenith ! 😂
Better move to USA ...
You are loosing to much time with introduction, so I lost interest in following
Shockingly useless
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