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10 Ways to know if you or your friends are menopausal. Don't fight it. What is the alternative?

How many times have friends complained about some symptoms and when you mention that it could be menopause you are told, “But I am TOO YOUNG!”???

If you are a good friend you reassure them that it is “Just” menopause. If you are a bad friend you go along with them and stay on the banks of the river Da Nile. Sometimes being a good friend is not well received and it is easier to just be a bad friend, but don’t go to that dark side, stay true to your friends and lead them down the road of menopause.

Here are the top 10 signs that you are in menopause:

1. Night sweats. Clammy, sticky, hot then cold waking night sweats
2. Sleeplessness. You fall asleep but then at 2 AM you are awake, or you don’t fall asleep until 2 AM.
3. IBB. Itty Bitty Bladder. You can not sleep through the night with-out visiting the bathroom around 2 AM. See number 2.
4. Hot Flashes or Hot Surges or Hot Flushes during the day, not just under stress. You haven’t worn a turtle neck in over a year.
5. Irritability. No one can do anything fast enough, slow enough, good enough, or just enough.
6. Mood Swings. Lifetime channel makes you cry and then mad then angry then happy.
7. Trying to Help Everyone. Note that Wonder Woman was young, not in her late 40’s or early to mid 50’s.
8. Menopooch. This is not a dog. This is you tummy that no matter how many kick boxing, Pilates classes you take there is a tiny meno bump.
9. Thinning Hair. Your hair dresser is lying when he/she says everyone looses clumps of hair in the shower, and on their hair brush everyday.
10. Memory Loss. This is a reassuring list. It’s not just you. Too bad you won’t remember to tell your friends, so forward it now before you forget!

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SPIKEY58 said to Haralee
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Oh how funny and true this list is .Must be having a happy day or i would be crying. If i don't write it down then hey forget it and i do mean that.And sleep , they say science does not know why our body needs sleep will any woman going through this can tell you why DA. lOVE  this though and what the hell if we can feel it well where still alive.

grammy 2 4 said to Haralee
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Still laughing...and sooooo true!!!  An older woman where I used to work.  She was 56 and I was 38.  We ran together every morning.  She ran one loop that was 2.5 miles, I ran it twice; then I'd stop back at her home and we'd have a cup of coffee together.  One morning she had a hot flash in front of me and I was in a bit of shock.  She'd been resting, I just finished 5 miles, I wasn't even sweating that much.  After she explained to me what had happened.  I was mortified and asked her how she could handle them so well.  Her answer...."well dear when you get your first one you'll truly think your having a heart attack, then your doctor tells you' nope JUST menopause (I capped just to emphisize a doctor said JUST...yes ladies, he was a man!  how DID you know?)  Anyway he gave her some meds that she threw in the toilet before leaving his building and went home.  That night she and her husband we're having sex and she had one during.  She told me to remember during the one's we have during the day to pray for it to happen again that night....just as your mate is getting into bed....in her own words to a horrified young mother that never wanted to feel like a fire was burning me from the inside out (her words) until she explained it was the best damn sex she'd ever had while experienceing a hot flash smack dab at THE moment.  Now her husband is also praying for them.  True story, I refuse to inject my own personal experience.....the moderator would really cencor me then;)

qnormge said to Haralee
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Screw my menopausal friends. They're on their own! (Mood swing...haha) Actually, after suffering for a couple of years with perimenopausal symptoms (which is menopause that is just teasing) my OB/GYN said it was time to go on HRT as menopause is now actually upon me. Mortified was I! I had looked forward to not having periods. I viewed the lack of monthly blood-letting as a reward - as God saying "job well done" for not sacrificing my children. It meant I got to have sex with my husband (who is 22 yrs. my junior) without fear of pregnancy! And: I didn't have to waste all that precious money on "feminine" products. But, no, Dr. P. said that it would be "healthier" for me to continue to bleed from my nether-regions! Well, after the humiliation of purchasing pregnant mare urine (yes, ladies, that's what Premarin is made from) and the complicated methods of ingesting the various hormonal products prescribed for me I have to say, the Good Doctor got her wish...but she WON'T get a Christmas card!

 

 

 

persimian said to Haralee
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Maaaaannnn!!!  I experience EVERY one of these symptoms.  Truth be told - I'd still rather have them than the monthly bloating, cramping, leaking, etc. from periods.  Menopooch is something I've come to accept and live with. I can't spend my life worrying about a body I had at 25 and will never get back at 50.  Memory loss is something that I worry about - but I've found ways to remind myself about things that are important in my world.  Hot flashes - although they can be annoying - I love the fact that I don't have to bundle up in the winter.  People look at me as if I'm crazy, but I just go about my business.  As a matter of fact, right now I'm buying more blouses for the winter than ever before.  I empty my bladder right before I get into bed - no matter how little water may be in there because it seems that my bladder gets full at night whether I've had something to drink or not.  I actually thought that was me!!!  I sleep in the nude to compat the night sweats.  I sleep alone so I don't have to worry about unwanted groping.  This way I can throw the covers off myself when the sweats start and then recover when they go away.  Most nights I'm sleeping WITHOUT the covers.  I'm still trying to figure out how to deal with the irritability, but try to monitor my moods and attitudes. I don't always succeed, but I'm trying.  My hair came back stronger than ever after chemo for my cancer, so that's not really an issue. 

All in all - as far as menopause is concerned - I'M GOOD!!

dancdiva said to Haralee
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Well, I don't believe it is as terrible as you all say.  My periods stopped all at once and then I have had no symptoms at all.  In fact my hair is growing better than ever and I feel great without the monthly stress of it all.  It seems great to me.

 

Haralee said to dancdiva
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So you're the One! When doctors give statistics I wonder where are these women who say they have no symptoms,now I know it is you. You are a national treasure, but if your friends seem to be giving the cold(or sweaty) shoulder about your menopause symptom free status, best to say little, remain calm and don't look them directly in their eyes.

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