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Monday, December 18, 2006

Menopause Symptom Chart

Motherly Menopause for Current over 50's

by Patricia Little

The current collection of over 50�s have been the recipients of an absolute avalanche of new and varied menopausal experiences. It has always been a topic about which no-one talked. Mothers might have attempted to answer questions but didn�t have the cultural permission or in depth knowledge to explain the myriad of content.

With the fulfillment of the God-given life span more and more mothers are around and happily working with every age range. What�s more many are now bold enough to share their experience with a desperate daughter as well as make a fortune from the apparent �unique�� experience.

Current literature may claim a mountain of apparent related issues around the mind, blood sugar, estrogen, anger, obesity, change of husband and a new cat amongst many things.

For this reason every culture and collection of ladies have not only read, interpreted, analysed and dissected the information, they would have discovered something from almost every �new discovery�. Somehow this could always be related to their own personal experience.

Mothers and daughters with little in common have discovered a new bonding process. Even those with nothing in common, and even no victories to share have a unique and special story. This may have had a time base of 7 years or seven minutes.

Copyright 2006 Patricia Little

Patricia Little is a writer and the editor of a re-released classic ebook- it will show you how to get the best of health and wealth out of all your future years. For more go to ==> http://www.Young-at-Sixty.com.

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Cure Menopause Natural Symptom

Isn't it Time to Find a Cure for Hot Flashes?

by Linda J Bruton

Oh, the dreaded "Change." Every woman has to go through it sooner or later, so you might as well attack those menopause symptoms head on. Every woman�s menopause experience is unique. It all starts when your hormone levels begin fluctuating. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but symptoms can begin anywhere from 2 to 8 years before menopause actually sets in. Since you may be experiencing these symptoms for over a decade you need to start finding a "cure" for hot flashes now.

Since hot flashes are often the first sign that menopause is approaching, most women want to understand how to find a cure for hot flashes that works, but doesn't further disrupt their life. Other peri-menopause symptoms include irregular periods and headaches, but they�re usually not as bothersome as the hot flashes. These flashes of fire can create problems when uncontrolled. If you�re in the work force they can cause embarrassment due to the extreme sweating that can occur. They can also cause you unnecessary anxiety. So how can you find that elusive personal cure for hot flashes?

After a little research you will find much information regarding a natural cure for hot flashes. Some women find considerable success with natural options such as increasing vitamin intake, taking time to relax, reducing stress, wearing layered clothing and drinking lots and lots of cool water. However, for many women natural remedies don�t provide significant relief from hot flashes. A common approach from the medical community is hormone therapy.

Hormone therapy, or hormone replacement therapy, can help you achieve the relief you�re longing for. There are risks involved, but even as a short-term treatment you may find that it gives you the most relief.

Progesterone and estrogen are the two hormones utilized in hormone therapy. You may need a little progesterone, or just a little estrogen. You may need a bit of both. The process is one of trial and error, just as any medical treatment option that offers a cure for hot flashes.

Estrogen is the most common hormone prescribed for women during menopause. It is widely considered the most effective cure for hot flashes. Estrogen replacement can be taken in pill or patch form. However, since we are dealing with a hormone, there are significant health risk possibilities. These risks include blood clots, stroke, and cardiovascular disease. Recent studies have shown that it can increase the risk of breast cancer. It is recommended that you take the lowest effective dose that offers relief from hot flashes.

The other hormone, progesterone is offered in pill form, as a cream, or as a vaginal suppository. One study showed that when using natural progesterone cream, 83% of women reported reduced hot flashes.

Whatever treatment you decide upon as a cure for hot flashes will be the one that works best for you. You understand and know your body better than anyone. Listening to your body will help guide you to find the fastest and most effective remedy that is right for you.

Discover how YOU can stop your hot flashes and menopausal symptoms without Hormone Replacement Therapy at Linda Bruton's Survive Menopause site. Pick up your free special report "Coping with Hot Flashes the Natural Way" by clicking here:
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Flashes Insomnia Faq How Long Do Menopause Symptom

Cessation Menopause

by Ryan Fyfe

Menopause refers to the physiological stopping of menstrual cycles that is associated with advancing age in species that experience such cycles. More specifically menopause occurs as the ovaries of the species stop producing estrogen, which in turn causes the entire reproductive system to slowly come to a halt. During this time of shutdown, the body is continually trying to adapt to the changing level of hormones which is the cause of the symptoms we commonly know:

- Increased depression

- Anxiety

- Irritability

- Mood swings

- Lack of concentration

It isn't uncommon for a woman to have increasingly scanty and random menstrual periods along with the above symptoms. The typical time for this cycle is about one year, but can swing to as little as 6 months, and to as great as 5 years in extreme cases. Physiological Menopause is part of a normal aging process, and on average occurs as 50.5 years of age. Some woman experience menopause at a younger age, at it should be noted that it can also be surgically induced by procedures like hysterectomy.

There is several different factors which can attribute the timeline of menopause. An example of such is: both fraternal and identical twins will on average reach menopause before other women; approximately five percent of twins will reach menopause before they turn forty. There is no way to predict in advance how long, or when menopause will exist, but if you spend some time going over it with your doctor you will be able to have a better idea.

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Ryan Fyfe is the owner and operator of Menopause Area - http://www.menopause-area.com, which is the best site on the internet for all menopause related information.

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Sunday, December 17, 2006

Emotional Menopause Symptom

Menopause and Hypothyroidism

by Cathy Taylor

In the United States, more than 20% of the women in menopause are diagnosed with hypothyroidism - a sluggish thyroid. Women need to understand the consequences of menopause on the thyroid, as with the increase in age, more women are affected by hypothyroidism. Menopause and hypothyroidism have common symptoms, such as depressed mood, decreased energy and decreased memory, among others. Often these symptoms are taken to be due to menopause, leading to delayed diagnosis of hypothyroidism.

Hormones in women's bodies are balanced delicately and hormonal imbalance occurs during pregnancy, perimenopause, and menopause. In the time leading up to menopause, the clockwork menstrual cycles may begin to become erratic. This could be because of highs and lows in estrogen and progesterone.

Hypothyroidism, which is seven times more often associated with women than with men, also occurs because of hormonal imbalance. Certain doctors feel that estrogen dominance - excess of estrogen combined with low progesterone - typically occurs in early perimenopause. They feel restricting estrogen dominance prevents complications in perimenopause, including hypothyroidism. In fact, estrogen is required to be counterbalanced with progesterone to avoid hypothyroidism.

Treatment Options of Hypothyroidism
Hypothyroidism - the under-active thyroid is primarily due to the underproduction of the thyroid's main hormone - Thyroxine (T4). This hormone has to be converted to the active thyroid - the Triiodothyronine (T3), by the liver. Then only it can be effectively utilized by the body. Different practitioners have their own ways of tackling hypothyroidism.

Most prescribe Synthroid, Levoxyl or Levothyroxine - the synthetic T4 - for hypothyroidism. This is fine, if women are capable of converting this T4 into T3. For others, who are poor converters, Cytomel - a synthetic T3 - is prescribed to covert their low T3.

Many women do not believe in synthetic hormones for treating their hypothyroidism, and relieve their symptoms with nutrition, exercise, stress-relieving techniques and such natural treatments. Rich nutrition is the basis of hormonal balance. Rich nutrition should consists of:

� Multivitamins and/or minerals

� Essential fatty acids

� Calcium and/or magnesium

Such essential nutrients, when supplementing a healthy eating plan, support the body's endocrine, immune and other vital systems.

Some doctors recommend using a progesterone cream for treatment of hypothyroidism. Progesterone, which is essential for building many of your body's most important hormones, is also vital in offsetting estrogen dominance, which is one of the most common conditions in perimenopause and hypothyroidism. Application of progesterone cream gives an immediate relief to the symptoms of hypothyroidism.

Women in menopause or perimenopause are required to massage about half a teaspoon of progesterone cream into their hands and body. It is advisable to use twice daily for 21 days, to discontinue for 7 days, and repeat the procedure. The cream is required to be massaged on the thighs, stomach, inner arms, and the buttocks. It is recommended that you increase your water intake to avoid dehydration.

Many doctors recommend against prolonged use of progesterone cream after menopause. Short-term use is recommended after menopause, especially when weaning off Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT).

Cathy writes frequently on mid-life issues for women and men particularly
menopause and andropause. A copy of her book can be found at
http://www.howtoconquermenopause.com

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Nausea A Symptom Of Menopause

Menopause Metamorphosis

by Susun Weed

"Menopause is a metamorphosis, like a caterpillar becoming a butterfly. The caterpillar needs a cocoon, and so do you. One of the most important things you can do during menopause is to take time for you. Go into your cave, go into your cocoon, go into your room and shut the door."

These are words I have said, and sung, over and over. Words whose truth rings in the hearts of so many women who hear me speak. Words that prompted one (famous) female MD to throw her arms around me and exclaim "I thought I hated my patients. Now I know I just need a year off!" But words whose full meaning took some time to get through to me.

The idea of taking time off during menopause is an extension of a moontime mystery teaching: A woman benefits herself and her community if she takes a day off during her menstrual flow, to go within and tend to herself. By taking care of herself, a woman has more to give to others. But even more importantly, when she gives herself this time, she may sense the presence of her "spirit band" (angels) - those who are too faint to be noticed when one is focused on the hubbub of everyday life.

During menstruation, and during the menopausal years, say my Native teachers, the "veil between the worlds" is thin and easily parted. Our abilities and senses are heightened and we are open to guidance, inspiration, illumination - but only if we give ourselves quiet time alone, free of responsibilities.

I believe in this idea so strongly that I actually pay my apprentices to take one day off during their monthly flow. But it was exceptionally difficult for me to give myself the same time off. After all, I had to keep appointments that had been made months in advance and involved dozens to hundreds of people. I can't agree to be the keynote presenter at the National Institutes of Health conference on Women and Botanical Medicine and then tell them after I get there that I have to have the day off because I'm bleeding, can I?

So, even though I knew that my menopause would be more severe if I remained in the public eye, I again found myself unable to say "No." And for once I was sorry to be right.

The first summer of my menopause was exceptionally hot, and it seemed to trigger hot flash after hot flash. At one big conference, I was so hot they finally put me to bed on a cot in the climate-controlled (air-conditioned!) herb storage building while everyone else braved it in tents. I awoke not totally refreshed (I woke those days four and five times a night), but not melted either, and smelling decidedly fragrant.

And then there was the class that walked off and left me. It was another hot summer day. My memory of most of those insufferably hot menopausal summer days is mercifully blank - or, perhaps more to the point, welded into a recollection of one ongoing unrestrained surge of molten energy blanketing me from belly to crown. But this particular day is vivid in my mind's eye.

It was a staggeringly hot day. It was so hot that I decided after lunch to take my class of about twenty women to the river which runs through the back of my land. First, everyone had time for a little break to tend to necessities; then we were to meet at a certain place at a certain time to stroll to the river and look at plants along the way.

At the appointed hour, I showed up at the appointed place. By ones and twos, the students gathered. One asked me if I had a remedy for her headache. I asked her to get a glass of water and went into the house to get the herb she needed: skullcap. (How aptly named it is!) When I returned, in moments it seemed, no one was there except for the woman with the headache. I put ten drops of skullcap tincture in her glass of water, and asked where everyone was. "On their way to the river," she replied, much to my surprise, chagrin, and dismay. They had walked off and left me with no students to teach.

It took me some minutes to work through my feelings of abandonment, and more still to work through my sense of loss. But when I did, I could see that my students had given me the gift of the afternoon off. They somehow understood - I finally understood - that I needed time alone, time away from responsibility and leadership. And if I didn't have the sense to go into my cocoon, the Universe was willing to see to it that I was placed there by circumstance.

Ten years later, I look back and smile: remembering those sultry menopausal nights and steamy hot flash days. If I had it to do over again, I would squash my qualms about global warming and buy an air-conditioner as soon as those first strong hot flashes hit. And I would pull every string I could so that I could take as much time as possible off during my menopause metamorphosis.

Legal Disclaimer: This content is not intended to replace conventional medical treatment. Any suggestions made and all herbs listed are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease, condition or symptom. Personal directions and use should be provided by a clinical herbalist or other qualified healthcare practitioner with a specific formula for you. All material contained herein is provided for general information purposes only and should not be considered medical advice or consultation. Contact a reputable healthcare practitioner if you are in need of medical care. Exercise self-empowerment by seeking a second opinion.

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Susun is one of America's best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to women's health. Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world. Learn more at http://www.susunweed.com

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Women's Hormone Replacement Therapy - Are You In Balance?

by Jackie L. Harvey

It has been two years since the Women's Health Initiative Estrogen plus Progestin (WHI) arm of this large trial was stopped early because it caused harm. The WHI showed the opposite of what was expected--Estrogen (Premarin) plus Progestin (Provera) caused heart disease and breast cancer as well as blood clots and strokes. WHI results show that estrogen does not improve the quality of life for women. WHI estrogen plus progestin results are "evidence-based."

We now have evidence-based proof that "HRT" is harmful to women. But people are still taking Hormone Replacement Therapy and are concerned about estrogen deficiency. Why? "Little has changed because the fundamental, negative ideas about women and about menopause have not changed. Universal menopausal hormone therapy ... (is) based on a cultural belief that women are inferior and need fixing. For over twenty years I have been saying that menopause is a natural part of women's life cycle, the low estrogen levels after menopause are healthy and not abnormal. This made me unpopular--I have been labeled as "way-out" or worse. Therefore the WHI results for me were a vindication", says Jerilynn C. Prior BA, MD, FRCPC Professor of Endocrinology, Scientific Director, Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research, University of British Columbia. And, she is correct.

Two years after the WHI study little has changed. If you go to your doctor today and request HRT most will prescribe it for you. Despite the fact that The Women's Health Initiative, the largest controlled trial of ovarian hormone therapy ever performed, provided the strongest proof that Medicine (which has been strongly influenced by the Pharmaceutical Industry) causes harm for women. The website for the WHI study said, "Women should stop their study drugs immediately." Following that order led to hot flushes in many women who were on hormone therapy because their body had adjusted to that higher level of estrogen. Women who heard the news of the study in the media also often stopped their therapy abruptly. That led to severe hot flushes in hundreds of thousands of women and in virtually all women who had previously experienced them. "Because it is well known that rapid withdrawal from estrogen causes night sweats and hot flushes, all physicians should have been ready with advice for women wanting to stop estrogen." Says Dr. Prior.

For Lack of helpful information, and because the resulting symptoms of night sweats/hot flushes were so miserable, many women, in desperation, reluctantly restarted unwanted HRT treatment. It seems logical to now say that the WHI results require re-thinking of the concepts on which menopausal "replacement" and "estrogen deficiency" were based. The primary assumption that all women needed estrogen because they were deficient still needs to be addressed. I like what Dr. Susan Love said, "If estrogen deficiency is a disease, all men have it!" Destroying the concept of estrogen deficiency will be hard and may take many years to achieve. In the mean time where does that leave you and I?

Estrogen Dominance not estrogen deficiency, according to Dr. John Lee is at the crux of our dilemma and bringing our hormones back into balance will be the key to hormonal health.

STEP 1. Become informed. The "Let's Talk About Hormones" video provides valuable information on hormone balancing. Dr. Lee's "What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause" has just been updated. Information is the key to your power!

STEP 2. Evaluate your own hormones with a saliva test whether you are on hormones currently or not. Find out if you have adequate hormone levels or are truly deficient.

STEP 3. Work with someone who understands the issues. Dr. Lee felt that most women can themselves oversee their hormonal challenges. If you must select a healthcare provider choose one who like Dr. Prior says, "I will never again prescribe estrogen as a pill. There is now overwhelming controlled trial evidence that pill forms of estrogen cause unacceptably high rates of clots and perhaps, through clotting, also increased strokes and heart disease. There are not yet strong data but it is likely that estrogen given through the skin (as a gel, cr�me or patch) will be less likely to activate liver clotting factors and thus safer. To me it means "bio-identical" or "natural" kinds of estrogen and progesterone both given in physiological doses."

STEP 4. Just know that balancing hormones is not just about taking additional hormones but about diet and lifestyle changes. I believe that we have a unique opportunity, right now, as women on this second anniversary of the initial WHI results. We can become pro-active about our own hormone health and share with those women around us who are struggling with their hormone challenges. Women reaching out to other women will have a greater effect than waiting for the research to catch up. Each of us must practice living with these important ideas. Then hormonal health will be ours.

This Article Is Copyright 2006 Jackie L. Harvey & Saliva Testing com

Jackie Harvey is a nutritional speaker who shares her interest and information on hormone health and hormone saliva testing throughout North America in her popular "Let's Talk About Hormones" seminar. Visit her website SalivaTesting.com for a schedule of events in your area and for more information about her Best Selling 1-hour DVD "Let's Talk About Hormones with Jackie Harvey". Click For More information on Women's Hormone Saliva Testing and Saliva Test Kits.

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Female Pattern Hair loss

by Arturo Ronzon

Androgenetic alopecia is the most common form of hair loss found in women. Androgenetic Alopecia is also known as female pattern alopecia, or female pattern baldness. Alopecia does not have to mean complete hair loss, it may also mean hair thinning generally over the top and front of the head. This condition is most commonly seen after menopause, but affects nearly one third of all women who are susceptible to it.

Some excess hair loss may be noticed, but generally female pattern hair loss has more to do with gradual thinning. Normal hair shedding is between 100 and 125 hairs per day; so many women initially visit a dermatologist when their hair loss exceeds that number. When the affected hair is shed, generally the root grows a much shorter hair in its place, so eventually it becomes impossible to see, like peach-fuzz.

This condition may begin as early as puberty, and there are often hormonal imbalances involved. Many women do not realize that hair loss can also occur following pregnancy, or after discontinuing birth control. Physical and psychological stress to the body may also cause hair loss. These types of hair loss are known as Telogen Effluvium, and tend to be temporary more often than not. Hair loss from one of these events may be delayed up to several months, and it can take up to eight months to re-grow the lost hair.

Typically, treatment will begin with Rogaine, the only currently FDA approved medication that is available for female hair loss. The other popular medication for hair loss, Propecia, does not work in women at all. Aldactone pills may also help women, but the treatment tends to take many months before any improvement can be seen. Women may have luck with Hormone replacement pills like Prempro, but they tend to work better post-menopause. Hair transplant surgeons may also be able to achieve great results with their follicular unit, and minigraft techniques, but they require you to be a qualified candidate, and to have realistic expectations at all time.

Many treatments fail, or do not produce the desired effect. In this case, you may consider using perms, dyes and other cosmetic options to temporarily give a fuller appearance to the hair, until you can try another treatment. Some salons actually do specialize in hair additions, so it may be worth consulting with a skilled hair specialist.

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