2006-09-25 01:01:21 · 14 answers · asked by ? 1 in Health ➔ Women's Health
The combined stress of all that going on makes me have lots of hot-flashes. If I stay at home and do nothing I still get flashes and anxiety. I think working makes me concentrate less on the symptoms.
2006-09-25 01:04:44 · answer #1 · answered by Gone fishin' 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We don't have a choice really. Can you imagine if men had to go through a similar thing, the world would come to end. They can't even sneeze without thinking they are at deaths door. We are able to cope with anything life throws at us - and we always manage to fight through. Whoever said that women were the weaker sex are definitely wrong.
2006-09-25 01:17:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I decided to answer this question because I believed I had advice to offer and started reading the answers to see what sort of tips others had to offer. I was apalled at some of the responses.
Would it kill women to be supportive of each other?! Suck it up and get on with it are not very helpful responses.
Menopause may not be an illness or a disease, but it's no picnic either! If men had to go through it to the same degree as women, you can bet your last dollar someone whould have come up with something to alleviate the symptoms besides hormones that could potentially cause even more problems! Men get a "mid-life crisis" and run out and buy a sports car or cheat on their wives and we get hot flashes and mood swings! So NOT fair! *L*
As for supplements and hormones, many of us can't take them. Myself, because I had breast cancer at age 36 with an estrogen positve tumor. Subsequently, I had my ovaries removed to shut down estrogen production and rather than a natural, gradual progression into menopause I awakened from the surgery with my first hot flash.
I have found that yoga breathing helps when a hot flash hits. Exercise of any variety helps with the mood swings. Still haven't found anything to alleviate the night sweats.
I say we start looking at menopause as our bodies telling us to start taking care of ourselves FIRST! Women are well known for being multi-taskers, but I don't mind telling you that dealing with cancer, menopause, work, family, etc. was just TOO MUCH!
I had to learn to delegate tasks and I learned to say no. I learned to take care of me first... body, mind and soul... so that I'd have the energy to help others when they really needed me.
I sat down and made a list of people I could call on for specific things and broke that down even further to people I could contact when I just needed to talk... when I was mad, sad, overwhelmed, happy, whatever. Know whom you can count on for support and use those resources.
C'mon ladies! Support each other! Be there for each other! We have no hope of surviving all of the stuff the rest of the world throws at us if we don't take care of each other. That's who we turn to when the bosses and the boyfriends and the husbands and the kids and the coworkers are driving us crazy. If you want to have good friends you have to be one and you don't have to wait until menopause to start! Blessings on us all.
2006-09-25 05:53:10 · answer #3 · answered by nimbleminx 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not very well generally. Go to your local health food shop, get some supplements and let your family start helping with the household chores. If you are financially able treat yourself to spa days, take mini breaks, enjoy evenings out with friends where you feel comfortable to discuss symptoms comfortably. It can be very therapeutic and extremely refreshing when you find out that you are not the only one who wee's when they sneeze, constantly forgets names etc, gets emotional over 'soaps' and has secret crushes on some young pop or film star.
Try not to be superwoman and make sure you put yourself first for a change.
2006-09-25 02:18:40 · answer #4 · answered by feebee 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Once a month, I take a night out. I leave the kids and hubby and just go out for supper and maybe a movie or play bingo, it helps to clear the mind......and mounting frustrations that go along with menopause, but there's nothing you can do about it, women all over the world have been going through it for years and I've never heard a woman dying of menopause.....
2006-09-25 02:53:57 · answer #5 · answered by natdufour4030 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They're tougher than men, sorry guys, but I could never work like a woman does in everyday life.
2006-09-25 01:05:12 · answer #6 · answered by fed up with stupid questions 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Damn hard, but women just cope. they have to. It is as simple as that. We just go and get on with it.
Good luck.
2006-09-25 01:07:25 · answer #7 · answered by London Girl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are women my dear we cope purely because we have to.
2006-09-27 09:37:38 · answer #8 · answered by Candy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same way they always cope. They just get on with it.
2006-09-25 01:02:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They do what I'm doing..... Just keep on doing what they have to do.... It's not that big of a deal, just a fact of life.
2006-09-25 01:06:34 · answer #10 · answered by S G 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋