Nearing menopausal stage

I am female and yes, I have lived through menopause. I was suddenly thrown into menopause with a hysterectomy in order to deal with persistent fibroids in my uterus that defied several kinds of treatment to get rid of them.

I was 42 years of age. The doctors strongly recommend removing the ovaries because you then do not have to worry about ovarian cancer. It seemed like a logical recommendation.

However, getting thrown into sudden menopause caused very severe and constant hot flashes and dryness. My doctor prescribed estrogen patches, which did alleviate symptoms.

But it took about six months to arrive at the optimal dosage and for the symptoms to more or less disappear. I also experienced “foggy memory” and complete lack of desire for sex. Read the rest of this entry »

I am a female who turned forty three last year. I only thought older women that are women who were in there sixty’s or older went through menopause.

I never thought someone who was forty one could start going through menopause. Most women aren’t getting pregnant till their forty now days. I started just feeling bad.

I ached all over, so naturally I thought I had a cold or the flu. I began to sweat all the time. It was like I had stepped out of sauna. Sweat would just start running out every pore in my body and it would be 20 degrees outside.

I had headaches all the times. My nerves were shot, and I felt awful. I would get the shakes and get dizzy spells. I wasn’t sleeping hardly any. I would just lay awake all night. Read the rest of this entry »

I am a female and I went through menopause at 45.

I had hot flashes.

I would wake up sweating and I would have to change clothes.

I was moody and I found that exercises helped me a lot to get rid of that added emotional state.

I also drank chamomile tea and that calmed me down a lot.

I also took up reading a relaxing self-help book at night.

Menopause was one of the biggest physical challenges of my life. I am female, began experiencing menopausal symptoms of missing periods and hot flashes at age 54. The periods became sporadic. Menstruation was normal, except for the very few months I would miss.

The hot flashes were severe, and lasted from 30 to 90 seconds. I would soak through tee-shirts with sweat several times per night. My physician wanted to recommend estrogen but I did not want to take it due to potential cancer risk.

Menopause is a natural part of life, even if it is uncomfortable. The symptoms stayed with me for almost two years. Finally, late in my 56th year, I quit having periods. I could hardly believe it.

The hot flashes and night sweats were extreme, but I took some natural substances which did help: black cohosh (Cimicufuga racemosa), and valerian root to calm my nerves.

Black Cohosh has been used by more than 1.7 million women in Europe and Australia to treat menopausal symptoms according to the Life Extension Disease and Prevention book, my main guide to herbals. Read the rest of this entry »

I am a 50 year old woman, who is going through menopause. About 3 years ago, I started to have irregular periods and went to my dr, after some tests, he informed me I was “almost” thru the menopause process.

I really didn’t have any symptoms at that time, just the irregular periods, but the dr put me on prescription medicine which totally made symptoms appear.

I was getting hot flashes, irritable, craving chocolate one minute, then something salty the next, just nasty.

I refused to take the prescription as it just made things worse, so after some discussion. Read the rest of this entry »

I am a 45 year old female and have been having menopause symptoms for the last year and a half.

When I first noticed these symptoms, I did not recognize them for what they were. I honestly thought I was getting the flu.

My face and neck would break out in beads of sweat for no apparent reason. Several times throughout the course of a day, and my face and neck felt hot and flushed.

My body would follow with bursts of extreme heat radiating from the inside out. These “bursts of fever” would occur several times a day, for several weeks at a time, and would then subside for a month or two, only to be followed by weeks and weeks of the feverish, flushing bursts of heat and discomfort, and profuse and random sweating.

I do not think I am finished with these symptoms, although they have subsided for the time being.

My menstrual cycles are extremely irregular, when before the cycles were like clockwork. I am not taking any medications for these symptoms, nor have I sought medical attention. I did, however, look online to find out what was causing these bursts of feverish sweating, and the only explanation that was reasonable was menopause! Read the rest of this entry »

I am a female, 49 years old. I started having hot flashes about 2 years ago, when I was 47.

My periods were horrible, very heavy and I was miserable. My periods lasted 2 weeks.

I did not go to the doctor because I wanted to try and deal with it naturally. I started taking Estroven Extra Strength at that time to deal with the hot flashes and it worked okay.

It lessoned the sweats and it also has ingredients that are healthy, like B vitamins, calcium, and cranberry extract.

In the summer of my 48th year, I stopped having my period and didn’t have it for 4 months. I started again, but my periods didn’t seem as bad, even though they still lasted 10 days.

This past summer I stopped again and haven’t started back. It’s FANTASTIC!!! I hope this time it doesn’t return. Read the rest of this entry »

I am female 53 years old.

Yes I have met menopause.

I started losing my hair around 5 years ago and have been having Hot Flashes for the past 3 years.

The hot flashes started during the day and I did not think anything about it at first.

Then I started having the hot flashes at night.

Two years ago I stopped having any period.

I still have the hot flashes.

I have talked to friends and have looked stuff up about menopause on the internet. Read the rest of this entry »

I am a female and I began menopause when I was 49 years of age. My menstrual cycle just ceased and never began again.

I did have, what I believe, was peri menopause for about 10 years prior to this. With that came, extreme mood swings, tiredness, and heavy menstrual flow with cramping.

Menopause brought me relief from these things, however, my hormones did go wacky and I became involved in an extramarital affair.

I do believe these raging hormones were mostly responsible for this as an affair was totally out of character for me. I was like a girl having sex for the first time.

I had some hot flashes but, they were not enough to make me too uncomfortable. I was probably bothered more with night sweats, but the mood swings were gone. Read the rest of this entry »

I am a female who experienced menopausal symptoms at the age of 25.

I started noticing changes and my period and went to the doctor.

He laughs and said sometimes there are just changes in your cycle and it was nothing to worry about.

I started having headaches and at the time did not connect the headaches to anything but I developed a rare illness and at the age of 32 started having hot flashes that made me very ill.

Again I went to the doctor and he said that it was nothing and I was too young for menopause. This time it was decided that it was female related and I was treated. Read the rest of this entry »