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Re: Menopause was Re: Weight Loss Discussion Thread
« Reply #25 on: 18 September, 2020, 04:22:09 pm »
I have a mesh hernia repair. So far, so good, 16 years later...

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« Reply #26 on: 18 September, 2020, 04:47:10 pm »
My mother carried on bleeding until she had a hysterectomy in her late 50s. She had fibroids. I've got fibroids, and so has one sister. The youngest hasn't had such problems - yet... I'm grateful that (so far) I've not had the same level of grimness that mum and sister had/have. I think the fact that I had a mirena coil anyway probably helps.
Yeah. Well, when you take that coil out, just see it flow...

(That coil did not stop my periods, and I've been surgically improved in the fallopian department so in every aspect was completely rubbish.)

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« Reply #27 on: 07 October, 2020, 12:02:35 pm »
My mother carried on bleeding until she had a hysterectomy in her late 50s. She had fibroids. I've got fibroids, and so has one sister. The youngest hasn't had such problems - yet... I'm grateful that (so far) I've not had the same level of grimness that mum and sister had/have. I think the fact that I had a mirena coil anyway probably helps.
Yeah. Well, when you take that coil out, just see it flow...

(That coil did not stop my periods, and I've been surgically improved in the fallopian department so in every aspect was completely rubbish.)
That coil is NOT coming out without being replaced...
(I've been to the genecology place and had ultrasound scans and chat so for the moment I'm OK with things as they are. The complete erraticness is more of a PITA than the quantities, at the moment.)

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« Reply #28 on: 10 November, 2020, 04:29:34 pm »
Going to talk to the GP that copes with lady things on Thursday. The GP that was looking at my knees was rather horrified that I might want to talk to him about it all. Not His Department. I'm beginning to think that "Female patients want to talk to a female dr about woman stuff" is a myth put about by male GPs so they don't have to venture into the yucky bits of ladyness.
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« Reply #29 on: 10 November, 2020, 05:01:28 pm »
Going to talk to the GP that copes with lady things on Thursday. The GP that was looking at my knees was rather horrified that I might want to talk to him about it all. Not His Department. I'm beginning to think that "Female patients want to talk to a female dr about woman stuff" is a myth put about by male GPs so they don't have to venture into the yucky bits of ladyness.

...And perpetuated by the female patients who want to avoid a specific arsehole GP who just happens to be male.

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« Reply #30 on: 11 November, 2020, 11:09:02 am »
Going to talk to the GP that copes with lady things on Thursday. The GP that was looking at my knees was rather horrified that I might want to talk to him about it all. Not His Department. I'm beginning to think that "Female patients want to talk to a female dr about woman stuff" is a myth put about by male GPs so they don't have to venture into the yucky bits of ladyness.

...And perpetuated by the female patients who want to avoid specific arsehole GP who just happens to be male.

Yes, there is that too. The ones who hear "I'm exhausted", decide you are anaemic (I'm not) and stop listening etc

My niephew has suffered from a lot of those - the cancer was only caught because they went private about the endometriosis that wasn't being properly treated...
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« Reply #31 on: 13 November, 2020, 08:59:34 pm »
the lady dr for lady things has given me some HRT to try to see if that helps everything. Having some energy might help me to get some exercise to help with the osteoarthritis in my knees, anyway.
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Re: Menopause was Re: Weight Loss Discussion Thread
« Reply #32 on: 02 August, 2021, 10:58:06 am »
thread resurrection.

there's a call for evidence about menopause and the workplace: https://committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evidence/548/
I will be going through the questions shortly.

meanwhile I am on a waiting list of unknown length to see the menopause specialist at the GP surgery. 
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« Reply #33 on: 02 August, 2021, 11:41:22 am »
Some lucky people don't have Big Menopause Issues.  :smug:

I can't imagine wasting my GP's time with mine- losing sleep random sweat fests and gaining weight isn't really affecting my life enough to justify it. It would be like complaining about getting old.

This isn't to diminish any one else's experience, but like childbirth, it's important to remember it's been happening for generations without interventions and lots of women get through it without any issues whatsoever.

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« Reply #34 on: 02 August, 2021, 01:05:06 pm »
I am still getting hot flushes.
Helen, age 63.

I am fortunate in having had few other issues.

I menstruated until I was nearly 57...

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« Reply #35 on: 02 August, 2021, 05:05:00 pm »
This isn't to diminish any one else's experience, but like childbirth, it's important to remember it's been happening for generations without interventions and lots of women get through it without any issues whatsoever.

Wonders idly a)what proportion of women born actually made it to menopause and b) whether women spent much time needing to use their brains for long division, or operating dangerous machinery or other stuff that requires sufficient bandwidth at menopausal age, much before the relatively recent past.
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« Reply #36 on: 02 August, 2021, 06:07:24 pm »
Yes. And women and babies died in childbirth but enough of us survived, fortunately.

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Re: Menopause was Re: Weight Loss Discussion Thread
« Reply #37 on: 03 August, 2021, 10:49:41 am »
I went through early menopause at 35. I finally got a doctor to accept that had happened about 3 years ago (10 years later). I have been told weight gain with menopause "isn't a thing -- we all find it harder to maintain weight as we get older" and my concerns about osteoporosis have been dismissed. I've had absolutely no support in making a decision as to whether HRT would be a good idea or not.

Other than an exacerbation of my insomnia, sudden weight gain and the intensification of hair in places heteronormative standards suggest someone with a chest as large as mine should not have, the only thing I've noticed has been adult onset asthma that coincided with menopause.

Is this a thing? Given my doctor dismisses fairly normal effects such as weight gain, I'm reluctant to pose the question.

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« Reply #38 on: 03 August, 2021, 11:51:26 am »
The other thing to think about is hypothyroidism.

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Re: Menopause was Re: Weight Loss Discussion Thread
« Reply #39 on: 03 August, 2021, 12:24:06 pm »
I have had blood tests, and the other (female) doctor I saw seemed surprised I should have been offered the test. Her only comment was that it all seemed normal. I presume they checked thyroid activity.

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« Reply #40 on: 03 August, 2021, 07:58:54 pm »
Increasing evidence of hypothyroidism in perimenopausal women but very under recognised and probably not in the middle of rural Scotland!

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Re: Menopause was Re: Weight Loss Discussion Thread
« Reply #41 on: 03 August, 2021, 08:49:00 pm »
Some lucky people don't have Big Menopause Issues.  :smug:

I can't imagine wasting my GP's time with mine- losing sleep random sweat fests and gaining weight isn't really affecting my life enough to justify it. It would be like complaining about getting old.

This isn't to diminish any one else's experience, but like childbirth, it's important to remember it's been happening for generations without interventions and lots of women get through it without any issues whatsoever.

My lovely GP, now sadly retired, had a Special Interest in women’s health. It was her opinion that the menorrhagia experienced by menopausal women most likely caused the mortality spike you used to see around that age. At the time my anaemia was causing me horrendous problems. Mirena coil sorted me out, thank goodness.

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