A Passing Phase?

I’m back from a Thanksgiving vacation and 5-days of saliva testing, which I shipped to the lab today.  As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, I am working with Shaila Schwartz, a Naturopathic doctor at the Noe Clinic here in San Francisco. Once she sees what’s going on with my hormones and melantonin levels, she’ll prescribe a [...]

What to Expect

The Mayo Clinic website offers a 10-question, true/false quiz about menopause. After you submit your answers, you’re provided with explanations for each response. With all the reading I’ve done on the topic and consultations with doctors, I still got one wrong.  There’s lots of good information here and worth a read.

Is this Menopause?

My younger sister, who has yet to hit menopause, but clearly approaching this time of her life, told me that she recently left the keys in the car…and the motor running…for two hours while she shopped. “Is this menopause?” she asked.  Perhaps as a stand-alone occurrence, you could chalk it up to being pre-occupied or [...]

RECOMMENDED READING: “Sex, Lies & Menopause”

Sex, Lies & Menopause – The shocking Truth about Hormone Replacement Therapy, is the full title of this book by T.S.Wiley, first published in 2003.  A friend of mine suggested it to me. She knew I was nearing the point of throwing in the towel and taking hormones to relieve my menopausal symptoms. There seem [...]

43 Million Hot Flashes

There are 43 million women of menopausal age (45-54) in this country alone and if my conversations with friends on both coasts are any indication, the collective hot flashes of this demographic group must be contributing to global warming.  Now that I’m one of them, I’m noticing other “members” of this tribe wherever I go. 

At a movie [...]