Fellow GLP women…..menopause - hormones discussion

I only took conctraceptive pills for 3 mos - 58 yrs old now and been nearly 10 yrs since it began and SOME symptoms have begun to let up - there's something to look forward to!

I actually do everything I can for anyone at any given moment, so um, what’s your beef with me asking?

Hi ladies,

I tried something different all together, and to my amazement it’s actually freaking working.

But it’s torture….take Cold showers!
I of course got the idea from a thread on GLP.
I tried it, I suffer through it, and I literally have not had a hot flash or night sweats since. It’s been at least a month now. I feel AMAZING!

You don’t have to freeze the entire shower. Alternating btwn hot/warm and cold. I can only take hot showers. When I get my hair washed, it has to be hot, so yea this is extremely torturous to me. The video says to do 15 seconds, but that’s impossible for me. I’m probably at 4 secs extremely cold, but I’m getting surprisingly better with coldish. Even with the 4 secs intervals, the effect is working.

To me, as much as I LOVE my hot water, this torture is TOTALLY worth it.
I’m sleeping like a baby, not to mention I’m mellow and calm throughout the day.

I have not tried anything else, just cold showers.
:)

Man question here....so does menopause increase or decrease a womans sexual drive?

Great suggestion, the cold shower.
Splashing your face with cold water and having a cool water mister is important too. Not only does it cool you down, it helps keep your pores refined giving you firmer younger looking tighter skin and helps reduce wrinkles. Hot flashes and sweating all the time does a number on your pores adding to the signs of aging.

Alcohol on the skin a few times a day also helps shrink the pores, I mean the 100 proof kind, but you might smell like a lush and be tempted to indulge a bit more often. Rubbing alcohol irritates my skin but not the hard booze, it is like a face lift in a bottle LOL.

Who cares, not everything men ask has to be about sex. This is about menopause.

Not what stages of a woman's development men can exploit, and benefit from at her expense.

By the time menopause comes we are sick of that game.

so much hatred in one post.


to answer the perfectly acceptable question, there is no one answer.


Post-menopausal zest is real - and for some, includes libido.

Ok sisters- hot flashes:


Had them last winter... they vanished over the spring & summer, now it's getting cold again and they're back! WTF is this shit?

Ok sisters- hot flashes:


Had them last winter... they vanished over the spring & summer, now it's getting cold again and they're back! WTF is this shit?

Ok sisters- hot flashes:


Had them last winter... they vanished over the spring & summer, now it's getting cold again and they're back! WTF is this shit?

It's hard to wrap your head around the radical changes, no one ever gives us the menopause talk, but we get the period talk.

3 biggest things for me are: mental/emotional changes, body shape changes, and body chemistry changes.

Fortunately I've mostly gotten a handle on the first.

The body chemistry changes for me meant my formerly robust sex drive has tanked hard. TMI WARNING: The intensity of the sensation has dulled as well. What a cruel thing, for orgasms to go from "fireworks " to "well that felt ok but a back rub does too and feels about the same " . I'll get a good one every once in a while but overall the intensity is definitely not what it once was. And yes I've tried all the methods. Also tried several supplements... nope. HRT... didn't work. Just have some wine, they say... weed.. ? no and no.

I still am intimate with my wonderful husband because part of my love for him is meeting his needs, and guys need sex. I also love the act of physical bonding even though it's not as intense for me as it once was. It's still awesome but in different ways.

Body shape changes...

I remember being in my 30s and seeing women over 45, marveling how they could all have let themselves go. That won't be me, I'd say to myself. Look at the fat stomachs!

Surprise, you can be healthy and not change your good habits and still get the menopause middle! I was horrified to now be in the shape of a potato. Just diet, right? I fought to lose 10lbs and that middle part didn't budge an inch. The thing is, the menopause middle appeared overnight, and I didn't gain any weight but my body had apparently rearranged itself. It's a serious mind fuck.

I was explaining how distraught I was to my husband and he said, it's a natural aging process, he is getting old too and he's grateful we're doing it together. He also told me the best thing ever: "I am in love with a person, not a body" That statement made me feel SO much better!

Husbands if you're reading this I hope you're paying attention, especially the last part!

Anyway I hope my ramblings help someone.

I'm a 47 yr old female using estrogen patches after a radical hysterectomy.

Completely agree that this forum is not the place for this thread. I recommend hystersisters.com and their public forum.

sounds like your over 38 or something. please if that is the case, stop farting... its absolutely DISGUSTING for a woman of that age

decent people all over the world thank you in advance

I'm getting hot flashes only in the evenings and through the night, not during daytime

And only during cold weather

???? anyone else or is it just my abnormal brain chemistry???

How to kill a menopause thread ——-> talk about farting.

It is good advice, thanks for covering our a$$es. Body chemistry changes during this time leading to digestive troubles aka more gas. This topic has come up in our other menopause threads and the consensus was digestive enzymes help and pineapple juice.