Can we all agree that doctors, menopause “experts”, etc., do not know squat about your menopause. Why you ask? Because we are all different.

Unless you are my exact twin, you do not know my menopause and I do not know yours.

I love being told by doctors “I’ve never heard of that symptom before”. Mostly referring to the fact that I have an elevated pregnancy hormone as part of my menopause. The HCG hormone.

Instead of focusing on our actual symptoms, doctors and researchers spend their time coming up with new names for our problems. Who was so opposed to the words Hot Flashes and Night Sweats that they had to give it a clinical name: Vasomotor symptoms. Huh.

We pay for this stuff.

Vasomotor symptoms include hot flashes, night sweats, heart palpitations, and changes in blood pressure. The television commercial for Veozah does not mention anything about heart palpitations or blood pressure but one of the side effects of the drug itself IS hot flashes.

Big sigh.

What is the point then?

Just about everything I have tried (I gave up BTW) for my hot flashes was experimental, therefore, I was using my body as my own clinical trial.

So, I decided to look up clinical trials for menopause and was taken to an article on the Controversial History of HRT Check this out from The National Library of Medicine (Full article if you follow the link): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6780820/

In 1993, the 16,600 women studied were aged 50-79. Only 16,600 women. A tiny, minuscule sampling.

By the year 2025, 1.1 billion women will be menopausal, experiencing menopausal symptoms yet there are only FIVE current open clinical trials for the study of hot flashes.

Five. 5. Five. 5.

There are 46 open erectile dysfunction clinical trials for men.

This also appeared in my search, so I followed the link and read it all. It’s quite interesting. Follow the link to read the whole article. It’s just a bit of history.

Link to article here: https://www.womens-health-concern.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/10-WHC-FACTSHEET-HRT-The-history-NOV22-A.pdf

WOMEN’S HEALTH CONCERN FACT SHEET

HRT timeline

1965: HRT becomes available to women in the UK. 

1993: A clinical trial starts in the USA – the Women’s Health Initiative – looking at the health effects on women taking either estrogen-only HRT or combined HRT, compared to women taking an identical placebo.

Full stop.

Now more on men and their ED:

From: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5675239/

“In the 19th century, with the realization of testosterone’s role in erectile function, French neurologist Dr. Charles Edouard Brown-Séquard began injecting himself with extract from the testicles of dogs and guinea pigs. This progressed to Russian surgeon Dr. Serge Voronoff performing testicular graft transplantations from apes into human testes. While these were unsuccessful at increasing testosterone levels, the transplantations were a step toward the artificial synthesis of testosterone from cholesterol by Adolf Butenandt in 1935. Butenandt was ultimately awarded the Nobel Prize, shared with Leopold Ruzica, for this work in 1939.”  Poor animals. 

And back to us women:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6780820/ 

“The first clinical trials on HRT and chronic postmenopausal conditions were started in the USA in the late 1990s. After the announcement of the first results of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) in 2002, which showed that HRT had more detrimental than beneficial effects, HRT use dropped.” 

So, men’s penis clinical trials started WAY, WAY back, even before the article I posted. It actually goes back to the 8th century.  

Women’s clinical studies started in 1990. 

Men won Nobel Prizes for making the penis hard again. Whoopdy fucking do. 

Try winning a Nobel prize for vaginal dryness due to menopause. Go for that prize with a study on mood swings and menopause. 

Here’s the deal to men, this is directed right at them: 

Hey, want to keep having sex until you die? All of your ED studies say that is what you want, so make women more comfortable during menopause and you might get laid more. 

BTW: This is in NO way a reflection of my husband. HE is a saint regarding my menopause.

I rarely use the Life Isn’t Fair quote, but here, it truly is, not fair. 

If men, in general, only realized making us comfortable would increase the happiness in their lives ten-fold, maybe they would do more for us.  ED, while a problem, is NOTHING compared to menopause.  

ED has work-arounds, pills, pumps...solutions. 

What do we have? Really? What have the professionals done for us besides shame us, dismiss our symptoms and prescribe drugs they know little about and have barely tested? 

We need to push for more clinical studies that are based in reality and that is what I hope these blogs will do...make people pay more attention. 

So, wake up doctors and scientists. We need more from you. We want natural solutions for our symptoms without the same side effects we are trying to rid ourselves of, and without killing us. 

Please pay attention.