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Menopause is a time of assessment. That feeling of well being that protected your pregnancy and nesting years has now depleted because your hormone levels have dropped. Now your feelings are unfiltered and you are left with assessing your life. Menopause is not a disease, but a passageway. Use this time to assess what you need and gain control over your changes.

How to use the website: This website offers you a compilation of leading sources on the symptoms of menopause that you may be experiencing. Hopefully, this will give you some background and information on how to deal with your symptoms and improve your life. By understanding what your choices are and what they mean to your health, you can seek out advice and assistance with some knowledge applied to your own personal experience. Just click on the symptom and you will find a definition of your problem and a solution.

For many of us it means hot flashes, night sweats, loss of sleep, weight gain, bloating, mood swings, and lack of libido. For some it can mean depression and anxiety. Whatever is going on in your body is also going on in your mind. The hormonal roller coaster ride may take you on a personal journey to face issues about how you really feel about just about everything that shapes who you are and what you have in your life.

This is the best time to be an educated consumer. The more you know and understand what is going in your body the better able you will be to make the right choices. If you are going to be on hormones, and for some of us, for the rest of our lives, you should be aware of your alternatives.

Choices for treatment

It is likely that you will be around for a very long time as this post menopausal woman. We baby boomers are considered the pioneers in this new way through menopause. What options are open to us via medication? Like everything else we did, we are not going down without a fight. We are too smart and too well educated to be herded through this phase of our lives. Many of us will live well into our 80’s and 90’s. You have a future. It is likely not to be the same as your past.  The opportunities of dispensing your love and wisdom on your children and having it all reflect on you diminish. Now you must apply that wisdom to yourself. Whether you are partnered or alone, the single most important relationship that faces you now is you with yourself.

Depending upon what health issues have surfaced for you, you need to reflect on your life and your choices. As you age, your hormone levels deplete, and the aging process accelerates. You can replace the depleted hormones and restore balance through Hormone Replacement Therapy. HRT helps ease the symptoms of menopause. Once you get an assessment of your hormone levels through blood work, you can begin to evaluate your alternatives.

HRT: Hormone Replacement Therapy as prescribed by your doctor, will address these symptoms. The great news about getting help is that for many women it works quickly. The depression eases, the night sweats diminish, and the hot flashes are controlled. HRT has been known to aid in mental agility, a healthier heart, and assist in aiding osteoporosis. Estrogen turns out to be an elixir to an aging body and even to the mind.

BHRT: Bioidentical Hormones are made in a compound pharmacy to your doctor’s prescription. Proponents of bioidentical hormones say that this homone replacment therapy most closely resembles how your body processes its own homone of estrogen. Premarin, for instance, is made from the estrogen of a pregnant mare. This means that if your body can process the hormone, there is less build up of unused estrogen in your body. At the very least, it means your weight should get under control. At the most, it would appear to be safer. Whether or not you need one or more should be determined through blood work analyzed by your doctor. An endocrinologist, or a gynocologist with training in menopause would be useful to research at this time.

Whether you choose HRT or BHRT, The Hormone Replacement Therapy route should begin with a close analysis of your hormone levels. It is a good idea to get a read on your testosterone, progesterone and estrogen levels. You may need to supplement all three. Some doctors use both HRT and BHRT in their recommendations. We women are as different as our bodies suggest on the outside as well as on the inside. What works for one may not work for another.                                                                                                     

Attitude about ageing is really important. Picture what you believe to be a woman of your age. Now picture your mother at that age. Lay the two pictures over each other and that’s your vision of yourself at this age. You can break through that mental picture by replacing that vision with new role models. Look around you at the women who have redefined their age. What do they share in common? Often they are slim and see themselves as sexual beings. These are achievable goals. A passion for life will create an aura of positive energy around you that other people will find attractive. People can sense your inner glow and it can be magnetic.

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This is a time of change and opportunity. Menopause is synonymous with the getting of wisdom. Envision this stage of your life as a time to be real with yourself, your feelings, and your inner truths. This is a time of looking in the mirror and shaping who you want to become.  Now is the time to plan how to get the best of the rest of your life.

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