Menopause and Your Risk for a Heart Attack

Menopause and Your Risk for a Heart Attack

How are your menopause symptoms affecting YOUR heart?

Every single one of you, reading this, and in menopause with symptoms similar to mine, should have your heart checked and your cholesterol tested. And make the doctor listen to you.

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Introducing (finally)The Menopause Support Line

Introducing (finally)The Menopause Support Line

We all need support during menopause.

Sometimes it can come from friends and family.

Others have no one to talk to.

Do you need to talk or vent about your menopause? Any part of it?

I am here to listen.

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Menopause and the #3BHF (Three minutes Before a Hot Flash)

Menopause and the #3BHF (Three minutes Before a Hot Flash)

Menopause makes you think of things that, BEFORE menopause, you would have never thought about or considered. But for a fleeting few minutes, you do. You think about the extreme. You are the extreme.

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Menopause – A discussion between Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Dr. Lisa Mosconi-The Good, the Bad and the Unknown of the Menopausal Brain

Menopause – A discussion between Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Dr. Lisa Mosconi-The Good, the Bad and the Unknown of the Menopausal Brain

Menopause – A discussion between Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Dr. Lisa Mosconi.

The Good, the Bad and the Unknown of the Menopausal Brain

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Menopause and the Clear Blue Hormone Test

Menopause and the Clear Blue Hormone Test

First, why would I pay for this test when my doctor will do it for free? Second, all you are showing is a “moment in time”. Same as the test my doctor can give me. It means nothing and is a waste of women’s money. How dare you.

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Menopause and The EMBR Wave 2

Menopause and The EMBR Wave 2

Hot flashes are the main symptom of my Menopause. No other symptom affects my life nearly as much, so I am willing to try just about anything for hot flash relief.

There was a commercial for this product on TV. I thought it was worth investigating.

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Menopause and Exhaustion

Menopause and Exhaustion

When this happens on the weekend, at least I know I can just putter around if I want to but when it happens on a workday, it is almost impossible to handle. My eyes are just trying to shut and then if I try and lie down, I feel guilty that I am resting whilst I should be working. It’s not right to have this guilt. I need sleep.

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Menopause and Clothes & Weather
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Menopause and Clothes & Weather

One of the necessities during menopause is to only wear clothes that I can get out of in a heartbeat when a hot flash hits. And I do mean a heartbeat. I think it is more because when a hot flash starts, my skin burns and becomes super sensitive to anything.

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Menopause and Sleep
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Menopause and Sleep

What are the reasons we don’t sleep?

• Brain Racing

• Hot Flashes/Night Sweats (Same thing)

• Itchy Skin

• Trying to get comfortable.

• Noise

• For some of us, spouses, kids, grandkids, pets, etc.

How do we cope with all of this and survive each day?

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Menopause in History
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Menopause in History

Menopause in History

We’ve talked about the History of Menopause now what about Menopause IN History?

Very little exists on the subject and by now, we should all know why.

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