Wall Street Journal

anyone read the article yesterday in the Wall Street Journal about all the other drugs being used by women to get through menopause...??? because women are so shy about taking hormones now, they say other drugs (antidepressants, bone strengthening drugs, etc) are having equally bad long term side effects perhaps.....

no magic bullet.

but doesnt that make sense? i have screwed around with fake sweeteners and had more than my share of wine, when i supplement my diet with real food, away from refined foods, i feel better, we do have people living to 100, they usually are not heavy, they are not smokers or heavy drinkers and they seem to have been able to maintain happiness in their lives.

i am 47, my insomnia has been awful, i found out this is a premenopausal issue, it is so troublesome i would take sleep aids but hormones and bone medicene just seems to iffy to me, some of this stuff does not seem true and tested to me.

menopause although troublesome is natural, i think unless someone is having issues where it truly effects their lives it may be better to just try natural approaches to deal with it.

i am 47, my insomnia has been awful, i found out this is a premenopausal issue, it is so troublesome i would take sleep aids but hormones and bone medicene just seems to iffy to me, some of this stuff does not seem true and tested to me.

menopause although troublesome is natural, i think unless someone is having issues where it truly effects their lives it may be better to just try natural approaches to deal with it.

right, but so many women in this society have quality of life issues. insomnia, as you mention, is one of them, a big one. the "brain fog" is probably the worst and scariest part of menopause I have personally experienced, and it came and went for several years for me. i'd be in the middle of speaking and just completely forget what i was saying, and i'd have to fake it so many times that i felt like a fraud! it caused me to take hormones and leave them just as soon as i felt "normal" again. after 50, it's anybodys guess as to what is good, and after 80, i guess we're just killing time around here anyway, right?

i have had brain fog like that all my life though. so if it happened now, it would not really alarm me, i forget what i was saying midway thru but usually because i have moved to a different thought and my mouth did not catch up with my head.

i have always had symptoms of a.d.d. but not so much it effects my life.

i never thought about living past 80 until adam put pressure on me to assume i was going to. i just kinda looked at my grandparents and assumed i would have their lifespan.

now, i have had a change of attitude, i assume i will live past 80, it took a long while to get to that realization. If it does not work out that way, i am glad i have had such a change in attitude.

looking back i think i was a bit depressed when i was living with the exhusband and after my divorce, i really did not see the point of living past 70, now i do.

maybe my new mental attitude will effect my life, i am not sure but i have certainly had a change of heart.