I started having the menopausal syndrome when I was 32 years old after my hysterectomy
I am a 38-year old female. I started having the menopausal syndrome when I was 32 years old after my hysterectomy.
Three months after the surgery, symptoms of hot flushes, insomnia and irritability started. Another thing was the easy fatigability. These symptoms were frequent during the first two years.
Sometimes, I felt ashamed of the hot flushes because even if I was in an air-conditioned room I was fanning myself due to excessive sweating while during the warm weather, I was shivering.
It was good people around me understood my condition so I don’t have to make excuses. My insomnia was another thing. Every two o’clock in the morning, I can’t help but wake up either because of too much perspiration or it’s just that I had to wake up.
I lose weight because of these. These symptoms had gradually diminished during the third year. Hot flushes became infrequent and the insomnia was manageable though there were times that I stayed awake almost the whole early morning from 2 to 5 in the morning.
Since I had undergone operation, I had a regular check up. In one of the check- ups , I was advised by my doctor to take hormone replacement therapy but I refused. I opted not to have the HRT, but modified my diet and lifestyle of which it had positive results.
I shifted to vegetarian diet and fish only, no fatty and oily foods. These had helped me a lot because my temperament was also under control.
I think the most that had really helped me in coping with the symptoms was the acceptance of the changes and daily exercise of walking.
Another was doing the things I love to do to keep me occupied.
These had helped me very much. Now, it is almost five years, and I don’t feel anything unusual.
I seldom experience hot flushes and insomnia but the easy fatigability is still there. Irritability is very manageable because the situations and instances that can provoke it were recognized.