I was completely shocked when I learned about this a few years ago. NOBODY tells you. If men’s penises started shriveling up painfully into a gherkin at age 50, there would be screenings starting at age 40. Complete BS for women’s healthcare. I do wonder why an OBGYN would never question however, “ hmmm, why do my older patients look like they change biologically compared to the younger ones?”
Just two months ago I went to see my OB NP and told her it suddenly felt like they’d disappeared overnight. I felt (with my hand) a difference! She said that’s not possible, but luckily she also prescribed estrogen cream. Super frustrating that this 30 yo NP doesn’t even know how to speak to these changes.
Going Mary Claire Haver and her peers, mostly nobody knew these things. Women’s health, especially menopause have been neglected.
But I’ve also had experience in asking for post 60s hormonal support from a younger practitioner and I think she really struggled and had to ask an older peer. She was a lovely young woman and I really liked her but she didn’t meet my needs.
Hopefully in the future all ages will know how to treat menopausal women.
Ive had 2 meno specialists, one with Stanford and who has you tube videos etc and another with kaiser whos NAMS certified and blBOTH in their early 60s i would guess.. BOTH of them refused to give me T despite E and P not woring after almost a year with my symptoms screaming LOW T, but because my T test came back at "low within range", i was refused...so here i sit suffering..
Thank you for this and all the work you’re doing to increase menopause knowledge. I have always considered myself knowledgeable and an expert on my own body. I’m rarely surprised by new information, but this information is news to me and I truly believe it’s because we were never taught about menopause. All the focus is on getting your period and childbearing. It’s almost like we’re considered so close to death when we reach menopause that we’re not worth the trouble to treat. I’ve learned so much from following you. At 54 and 3 yrs post menopausal, I’m now on MHT, protecting all my body systems, preparing for many functional years to come. Thank you for all the information you make available. If it wasn’t for your work, I would have continued to avoid MHT because of my family cancer history and possibly lost my ability to care for myself much earlier.
My friend and I considered starting a podcast called 'Where Did My Clitoris Go?' to answer that and so many, many other questions! Glad the light is finally being shone on The Menopause.
I have a serious question. Obviously this is a serious issue for many women.
Menopause, like puberty, is a natural, innate design for human women. It's a feature, not a bug. I'm always puzzled when I read that the solution for a normal process is an artificial or pharmaceutical intervention.
I am *not* downplaying the significance and impact of this issue on women. Not whatsoever. I'm wondering what more naturally-based solutions might exist. And also wondering if there are aspects of our modern lifestyle that make the symptoms worse than they may otherwise have been.
Sort of the way that natural sunlight has been deemed harmful and requiring chemical sunscreen. For many folks, ditching inflammatory vegetable oils in favor of natural fats (butter, tallow, avocado oil, etc) and eating clean whole foods reduces their propensity to sunburn, obviating the need for screening themselves from the natural sunlight that has sustained human life for millennia.
I appreciate your thoughtful question and the respectful tone you bring to this conversation.
You’re absolutely right that menopause is a natural transition, just like puberty. The issue is not whether it’s natural. It’s whether it’s tolerable and how much it interferes with quality of life, long-term health, and function.
Yes, there are absolutely lifestyle factors that can worsen symptoms. Ultra processed food, poor sleep, stress, lack of muscle, and sedentary habits all play a role. I talk about those all the time because they are real and modifiable. Nutrition, movement, and stress management matter a great deal.
But here’s the part many people miss. The biological fact is that estrogen plays a vital role in our brains, bones, hearts, muscles, and more. And when it declines, especially rapidly during perimenopause and menopause, there are measurable, sometimes debilitating consequences.
When someone is suffering with insomnia, debilitating anxiety, severe joint pain, recurrent UTIs, or bone loss, that is not a character flaw or a failure to eat enough tallow. That is biology asking for support.
Hormone therapy is not about fixing menopause. It is about offering evidence-based tools to protect health and function when symptoms are severe or when long-term risks like osteoporosis are a concern. Just like glasses for aging eyes or insulin for diabetes.
So yes, we can and should optimize our lifestyles. But that does not mean hormones are unnatural or unnecessary. It means they are one of many tools, and for many women, they are life-changing.
Thank you for engaging so respectfully. This is exactly the kind of conversation we should be having.
There are bioidentical estrogen, creams (in the forms of estradiol and/or estriol) and bioidentical progesterone creams. They’ve been available for decades.
Of course there’s certain things you can do nutritionally, but the fact is, the adrenal glands take over in producing smaller amounts of estrogen and progesterone in menopause.
And distresses the body. Not only do women have discomfort of hot flashes, dry vagina, the labia… They also start having thyroid problems and blood pressure problems.
Along with increased nervousness and anxiety
And that’s because the adrenals are also responsible for hormones like DHEA and pregnanalone (which are both mother hormones because they are the building blocks for progesterone, estrogen, and testisterone) aldosterone and cortisol.
Estrogen helps regulate the thyroid. Low estrogen means low thyroid, of which around 70% of women have underactive thyroid, which cannot be test in a lab. It’s sub clinical so it won’t show up in the blood work. But their hair is falling out, they’re cold, tired, gaining weight, have headaches, breast pain that’s incredible. So first line is supplementing with iodine, but estrogen is needed.
And then, obviously, after years of lots of stress, more than likely, the adrenal glands are tired, which means they’ve had cortisol burn out. So if they have a stressful moment, cortisol cannot respond. And with the body does is, if there’s not enough cortisol, it will then Take the progesterone and convert it into cortisol. So if a woman in menopause, who already is low on progesterone and is stressed out, she will not get relief because already she has too low of progesterone. And too low of the mother hormones to even create the progesterone needed.
Women also have high blood pressure in menopause. And that’s because aldosterone increases and can be erratic, because estrogen not present. Because estrogen suppresses aldosterone. And women end up having high blood pressure, rapid heart rate, heart palpitations.
And lastly, estrogen is linked to cardiovascular health. The lower the estrogen, the worst cardiovascular outcomes
So there is no way to get around having to use hormone replacement therapy, and ideally, it should be bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, using physiologic approach. Where are you modify the levels of estrogen throughout the month and the progesterone to mimic a proper menstrual cycle.
As a sidenote: estrogen, there are three – – estradiol, estriol and estrone. Estrone is the naughty one, that can make you estrogen dominant and have painful breasts, water, weight gain, weight gain, and increases your risk of breast cancer.
So hence, using bioidentical estriol, estradiol or combination of the two is preferred.
Also note that bioidentical estrogen should never be unopposed… women must take progesterone 14 days out of the month, ideally from days 12 to 27, when using bioidentical estrogen
And lastly, my biggest scrape all about the medical community… Is that they’ve been telling us we just need progesterone and take it for 25 days a month. That is just ridiculous! Our bodies need estrogen.
Yes, it may be a natural phase, but it puts us at risk for so many diseases, and makes us so uncomfortable. And personally, I’m sick and tired of the medical community telling us to just go in the corner, put up and shut up, and please just become invisible And less vibrant.
Good points about adrenal and thyroid matters. With so many people (women AND men) experiencing chronic stress (emotional, mental, physical) in our modern milieu, many women have adrenal stress even pre-menopause. There are good nutritional (supplements) supports for adrenal and thyroid function. My dr uses these frequently. While these supports don't replace estrogen, they help the adrenals function well which allows them to do their job better. Ditto for thyroid.
I’m so glad I read this I am going through this at this moment I got my hormone levels and it showed no estrogen I and have all the symptoms and I do have fibroids I was prescribed iodine and progesterone and will not be taking estrone but I will most likely take either of the other two mentioned
I do resistance training 4 times a week but also fasted once a month fasting sent my hormones into a tail spin had a cycle for 2 and a half months I’m moving forward and this article and your response gave me so much insight thank you thank you yeah I heavy periods because of the fibroids but 2 scared to let them cut me open and spit me out the hospital so I kept them
Oh my goodness I’m so sorry to hear that you’ve been suffering.
I had the same thing to when fasting… I used to fast for 36 hours once a week, and then would do a 72 hour fast once every six months. And did IF. And the first 72 hour I did, I went into a tailspin as well. My blood pressure which was perfectly controlled went ballistic. I think that’s because my bioidentical hormones were not optimized.
A really great book about how women really should not fast all the time and where they should fast is “fasting like a girl. “ by Mindy Peilz. We actually need more carbs, for example, than what we’re told with ketogenic diets. And I found that once I got myself back to 100 g per day I was feeling better. And we should do IF only during certain times of the month.
It could very well be once you have your hormones optimize the fibroids will disappear. As for the iodine, it depends on how much is taken. I took 12.5 mg per day. Also be sure to that you were taking the companion nutrients, like 200 µg millennium, 1 g C, 10 mg zinc per day as those are needed to convert the iodine
there was a month where I just didn’t take the iodine. And the breast pain came back. I was swollen. My blood pressure loss control.
I’m not sure if you’re on telegram, but there’s a great channel called alternative meds. And they are really helpful in helping women.
There is also an organization in the United States that have doctors who are trained in physiologic bioidentical hormone therapy: https://womenshormonenetwork.org/
They also have pharmacist that make the correct dosages of the hormones. And throughout the month, the levels of the estradiol and progesterone to mimic the hormone cycle.
They have a video, and they basically teach you how much you take each day. I use that video of the basis to create my physiologic protocol, because I live outside the United States so I don’t have access to the healthcare providers or pharmacies.
Sending you hugs, and I wish you the best of luck in finding the right physiologic, bi identical, hormone replacement replacement that will work for you. :-)
Asking two questions for a friend. Will atrophied inner labia grow back to any extent with the use of vaginal estradiol cream? Will flattened ruggae grow back? Thank you!
This starts in peri not just after meno starts...its the worst. Was wondering why i couldnt tolerate shaving as the hair was creating friction that never existed before, and if i shaved, the short hairs growing back was like clsandpaper, constantly rubbing and burning..hell, the skin burns even when gheres nithing going on! Even underwear that by any normal standards is NOT tight irritates it...im so done with my whole life revolving around my crotch, including my new issue of vulvodynia. Mo wonder aome people *ff themselves. This SUCKS!
Hi! Yes I looked into this and have tried so many different things over the last year and a half. I even had a cystoscopy done and a bladder installation which went horribly South and I ended up in the ER after the bladder installation. But it doesn't appear that this is at all related to my diet as it never makes a difference what I eat. I'm pretty sure that this is a neuropathy involving the pudendal nerve at this point because I've done so much reading and studying and trial and error with stuff and nothing's helped. Also, the way it comes and goes and what types of things seem to help the pain is all starting to point to a neuralgia, the only thing is I can't take the medications typically prescribed for neuralgia because I have bad side effects so nerve block is the closest I can get and if that doesn't help me at all or isn't long-term enough I don't know what I will do. There arent a lot of options past medication or nerve block. And the idea of a surgery does it fit well with me either because of how often surgeries fail.
I had a complete hysterectomy 2 years ago and am so mad at my dr for not telling me this could happen during menopause. I read about this and then I checked and my inner labia are completely gone! I will be asking for estrogen cream stat.
All of these symptoms happened to me long before menopause. The incontinence, atrophy with pain during intercourse, dryness, deflated labia, and finally after several laser sessions opted for surgery for my anterior and posterior prolapse. Could estogen have saved me from all of that?!
I would like to add that crunches, kegals and sex help keep everything strong too…I kept having the horrible urge to make it to the bathroom or 2 drops when I sneeze…after starting exercise it has completely gone away…these are muscles that need to be exercised too
I went through menopause at about 43 and now at 65 I get my period or bleed a few time a year. It started when I was 62. I go and get these test done and everything(no cancer) is ok so far. But c’mon!
Did you happen to get the covid shot? The LNPs (lipid envelopes in which the modified mRNA is carried) in the shot concentrated in ovaries of rats in a Japanese study. Lots and lots of post-menopausal women getting new bleeding after getting the shots. Naomi Wolf here on Substack has written about this. James Thorpe MD is a physician also talking about these effects.
I never got the V but every time my elderly parents got their boosters i would bleed immediately after my exposure to them for 2 to 3 days on between my periods. Im in peri but dont have any spotting or abnormal bleeding otherwise, just 48+day cycles..
If you are interested in exploring options for addressing covid shot effects on your body, you can check out this: https://imahealth.org/providers/
You also can look locally for functional medicine or naturopathic physicians who treat "long covid," as much of what is called long covid is actually injury due to the shots. So that verbiage may indicate an openness to considering the shot as the cause of your menstrual concerns.
Unfortunately most mainstream physicians are not being taught how to recognize, let alone treat, harms from the shots. You also can look around on Substack for folks discussing solutions. Do your research and make sure what you find makes sense and is understandable to you. Best wishes!
Long Covid is not a vaccine injury. The first cases occurred in 2020, LONG before vaccines were available. And it continues to occur, with higher rates in UNvaccinated people.
You are correct absolutely that long covid occurred prior to the shots and that it occurs in people who haven't taken the shots.
However, many people with vaccine injury are being labeled as long covid because drs have no other diagnosis. (They also get labeled as mentally ill in some cases, but I digress.).
The covid vaccines do not prevent covid infections. Cleveland Clinic studies have demonstrated that the more doses of the vaccine one has received, the more likely one is to get sick with covid. They also have demonstrated immune dysfunction with multiple covid shots, leading to altered immunoglobulin levels such that the body becomes more tolerant of the virus.
Spike protein is a very pathogenic protein. This is the protein produced by the mod-mRNA shots. The protein has been found to be present in people up to two years post-jab, suggesting that at least for some people, the mRNA is still present and producing spike. It may persist longer - those studies have not yet been done.
I was completely shocked when I learned about this a few years ago. NOBODY tells you. If men’s penises started shriveling up painfully into a gherkin at age 50, there would be screenings starting at age 40. Complete BS for women’s healthcare. I do wonder why an OBGYN would never question however, “ hmmm, why do my older patients look like they change biologically compared to the younger ones?”
Just two months ago I went to see my OB NP and told her it suddenly felt like they’d disappeared overnight. I felt (with my hand) a difference! She said that’s not possible, but luckily she also prescribed estrogen cream. Super frustrating that this 30 yo NP doesn’t even know how to speak to these changes.
I hope you will get a new, older NP!
How disappointing. And here I would think a younger NP would be more up-to-date with such things.
Going Mary Claire Haver and her peers, mostly nobody knew these things. Women’s health, especially menopause have been neglected.
But I’ve also had experience in asking for post 60s hormonal support from a younger practitioner and I think she really struggled and had to ask an older peer. She was a lovely young woman and I really liked her but she didn’t meet my needs.
Hopefully in the future all ages will know how to treat menopausal women.
I'm sorry, I didn't proofread my comment and now I can't make sense of what I was trying to say in the first sentence.
Ive had 2 meno specialists, one with Stanford and who has you tube videos etc and another with kaiser whos NAMS certified and blBOTH in their early 60s i would guess.. BOTH of them refused to give me T despite E and P not woring after almost a year with my symptoms screaming LOW T, but because my T test came back at "low within range", i was refused...so here i sit suffering..
That’s why only places are taking place. I have an appointment at midi health. Hopefully for some testerone cream.
Thank you for this and all the work you’re doing to increase menopause knowledge. I have always considered myself knowledgeable and an expert on my own body. I’m rarely surprised by new information, but this information is news to me and I truly believe it’s because we were never taught about menopause. All the focus is on getting your period and childbearing. It’s almost like we’re considered so close to death when we reach menopause that we’re not worth the trouble to treat. I’ve learned so much from following you. At 54 and 3 yrs post menopausal, I’m now on MHT, protecting all my body systems, preparing for many functional years to come. Thank you for all the information you make available. If it wasn’t for your work, I would have continued to avoid MHT because of my family cancer history and possibly lost my ability to care for myself much earlier.
Thank YOU for your beautiful words.
My god, the gaslighting of women.
My friend and I considered starting a podcast called 'Where Did My Clitoris Go?' to answer that and so many, many other questions! Glad the light is finally being shone on The Menopause.
I have a serious question. Obviously this is a serious issue for many women.
Menopause, like puberty, is a natural, innate design for human women. It's a feature, not a bug. I'm always puzzled when I read that the solution for a normal process is an artificial or pharmaceutical intervention.
I am *not* downplaying the significance and impact of this issue on women. Not whatsoever. I'm wondering what more naturally-based solutions might exist. And also wondering if there are aspects of our modern lifestyle that make the symptoms worse than they may otherwise have been.
Sort of the way that natural sunlight has been deemed harmful and requiring chemical sunscreen. For many folks, ditching inflammatory vegetable oils in favor of natural fats (butter, tallow, avocado oil, etc) and eating clean whole foods reduces their propensity to sunburn, obviating the need for screening themselves from the natural sunlight that has sustained human life for millennia.
Thanks.
I appreciate your thoughtful question and the respectful tone you bring to this conversation.
You’re absolutely right that menopause is a natural transition, just like puberty. The issue is not whether it’s natural. It’s whether it’s tolerable and how much it interferes with quality of life, long-term health, and function.
Yes, there are absolutely lifestyle factors that can worsen symptoms. Ultra processed food, poor sleep, stress, lack of muscle, and sedentary habits all play a role. I talk about those all the time because they are real and modifiable. Nutrition, movement, and stress management matter a great deal.
But here’s the part many people miss. The biological fact is that estrogen plays a vital role in our brains, bones, hearts, muscles, and more. And when it declines, especially rapidly during perimenopause and menopause, there are measurable, sometimes debilitating consequences.
When someone is suffering with insomnia, debilitating anxiety, severe joint pain, recurrent UTIs, or bone loss, that is not a character flaw or a failure to eat enough tallow. That is biology asking for support.
Hormone therapy is not about fixing menopause. It is about offering evidence-based tools to protect health and function when symptoms are severe or when long-term risks like osteoporosis are a concern. Just like glasses for aging eyes or insulin for diabetes.
So yes, we can and should optimize our lifestyles. But that does not mean hormones are unnatural or unnecessary. It means they are one of many tools, and for many women, they are life-changing.
Thank you for engaging so respectfully. This is exactly the kind of conversation we should be having.
Thanks for your thoughtful response as well.
There are bioidentical estrogen, creams (in the forms of estradiol and/or estriol) and bioidentical progesterone creams. They’ve been available for decades.
Of course there’s certain things you can do nutritionally, but the fact is, the adrenal glands take over in producing smaller amounts of estrogen and progesterone in menopause.
And distresses the body. Not only do women have discomfort of hot flashes, dry vagina, the labia… They also start having thyroid problems and blood pressure problems.
Along with increased nervousness and anxiety
And that’s because the adrenals are also responsible for hormones like DHEA and pregnanalone (which are both mother hormones because they are the building blocks for progesterone, estrogen, and testisterone) aldosterone and cortisol.
Estrogen helps regulate the thyroid. Low estrogen means low thyroid, of which around 70% of women have underactive thyroid, which cannot be test in a lab. It’s sub clinical so it won’t show up in the blood work. But their hair is falling out, they’re cold, tired, gaining weight, have headaches, breast pain that’s incredible. So first line is supplementing with iodine, but estrogen is needed.
And then, obviously, after years of lots of stress, more than likely, the adrenal glands are tired, which means they’ve had cortisol burn out. So if they have a stressful moment, cortisol cannot respond. And with the body does is, if there’s not enough cortisol, it will then Take the progesterone and convert it into cortisol. So if a woman in menopause, who already is low on progesterone and is stressed out, she will not get relief because already she has too low of progesterone. And too low of the mother hormones to even create the progesterone needed.
Women also have high blood pressure in menopause. And that’s because aldosterone increases and can be erratic, because estrogen not present. Because estrogen suppresses aldosterone. And women end up having high blood pressure, rapid heart rate, heart palpitations.
And lastly, estrogen is linked to cardiovascular health. The lower the estrogen, the worst cardiovascular outcomes
So there is no way to get around having to use hormone replacement therapy, and ideally, it should be bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, using physiologic approach. Where are you modify the levels of estrogen throughout the month and the progesterone to mimic a proper menstrual cycle.
As a sidenote: estrogen, there are three – – estradiol, estriol and estrone. Estrone is the naughty one, that can make you estrogen dominant and have painful breasts, water, weight gain, weight gain, and increases your risk of breast cancer.
So hence, using bioidentical estriol, estradiol or combination of the two is preferred.
Also note that bioidentical estrogen should never be unopposed… women must take progesterone 14 days out of the month, ideally from days 12 to 27, when using bioidentical estrogen
And lastly, my biggest scrape all about the medical community… Is that they’ve been telling us we just need progesterone and take it for 25 days a month. That is just ridiculous! Our bodies need estrogen.
Yes, it may be a natural phase, but it puts us at risk for so many diseases, and makes us so uncomfortable. And personally, I’m sick and tired of the medical community telling us to just go in the corner, put up and shut up, and please just become invisible And less vibrant.
Good points about adrenal and thyroid matters. With so many people (women AND men) experiencing chronic stress (emotional, mental, physical) in our modern milieu, many women have adrenal stress even pre-menopause. There are good nutritional (supplements) supports for adrenal and thyroid function. My dr uses these frequently. While these supports don't replace estrogen, they help the adrenals function well which allows them to do their job better. Ditto for thyroid.
Thanks for such a detailed response.
I’m so glad I read this I am going through this at this moment I got my hormone levels and it showed no estrogen I and have all the symptoms and I do have fibroids I was prescribed iodine and progesterone and will not be taking estrone but I will most likely take either of the other two mentioned
I do resistance training 4 times a week but also fasted once a month fasting sent my hormones into a tail spin had a cycle for 2 and a half months I’m moving forward and this article and your response gave me so much insight thank you thank you yeah I heavy periods because of the fibroids but 2 scared to let them cut me open and spit me out the hospital so I kept them
Oh my goodness I’m so sorry to hear that you’ve been suffering.
I had the same thing to when fasting… I used to fast for 36 hours once a week, and then would do a 72 hour fast once every six months. And did IF. And the first 72 hour I did, I went into a tailspin as well. My blood pressure which was perfectly controlled went ballistic. I think that’s because my bioidentical hormones were not optimized.
A really great book about how women really should not fast all the time and where they should fast is “fasting like a girl. “ by Mindy Peilz. We actually need more carbs, for example, than what we’re told with ketogenic diets. And I found that once I got myself back to 100 g per day I was feeling better. And we should do IF only during certain times of the month.
It could very well be once you have your hormones optimize the fibroids will disappear. As for the iodine, it depends on how much is taken. I took 12.5 mg per day. Also be sure to that you were taking the companion nutrients, like 200 µg millennium, 1 g C, 10 mg zinc per day as those are needed to convert the iodine
there was a month where I just didn’t take the iodine. And the breast pain came back. I was swollen. My blood pressure loss control.
I’m not sure if you’re on telegram, but there’s a great channel called alternative meds. And they are really helpful in helping women.
There is also an organization in the United States that have doctors who are trained in physiologic bioidentical hormone therapy: https://womenshormonenetwork.org/
They also have pharmacist that make the correct dosages of the hormones. And throughout the month, the levels of the estradiol and progesterone to mimic the hormone cycle.
They have a video, and they basically teach you how much you take each day. I use that video of the basis to create my physiologic protocol, because I live outside the United States so I don’t have access to the healthcare providers or pharmacies.
Sending you hugs, and I wish you the best of luck in finding the right physiologic, bi identical, hormone replacement replacement that will work for you. :-)
Asking two questions for a friend. Will atrophied inner labia grow back to any extent with the use of vaginal estradiol cream? Will flattened ruggae grow back? Thank you!
Yes to both. Results may vary
This starts in peri not just after meno starts...its the worst. Was wondering why i couldnt tolerate shaving as the hair was creating friction that never existed before, and if i shaved, the short hairs growing back was like clsandpaper, constantly rubbing and burning..hell, the skin burns even when gheres nithing going on! Even underwear that by any normal standards is NOT tight irritates it...im so done with my whole life revolving around my crotch, including my new issue of vulvodynia. Mo wonder aome people *ff themselves. This SUCKS!
Have you looking into the low oxalate diet for vulvodynia? It’s a miracle cure for some.
Trying Low Oxalates Facebook health group is great source of info but I’m sure there’s probably a vulvodynia Facebook health group as well.
Hi! Yes I looked into this and have tried so many different things over the last year and a half. I even had a cystoscopy done and a bladder installation which went horribly South and I ended up in the ER after the bladder installation. But it doesn't appear that this is at all related to my diet as it never makes a difference what I eat. I'm pretty sure that this is a neuropathy involving the pudendal nerve at this point because I've done so much reading and studying and trial and error with stuff and nothing's helped. Also, the way it comes and goes and what types of things seem to help the pain is all starting to point to a neuralgia, the only thing is I can't take the medications typically prescribed for neuralgia because I have bad side effects so nerve block is the closest I can get and if that doesn't help me at all or isn't long-term enough I don't know what I will do. There arent a lot of options past medication or nerve block. And the idea of a surgery does it fit well with me either because of how often surgeries fail.
Sorry to hear the low oxalate diet didn’t work!
I know it took me a really long time to get mine down so it can be a long-term commitment.
In two years, my oxalate tests were 98, 100, and then finally 80.
Wishing you a solution somehow!
Thanks so much for the suggestion, and I'm so glad it works for you! Every person that finds it ray of light in this hell I am so very happy for!🥰
I had a complete hysterectomy 2 years ago and am so mad at my dr for not telling me this could happen during menopause. I read about this and then I checked and my inner labia are completely gone! I will be asking for estrogen cream stat.
great choice of visual… even before I saw the title I was like “That’s O’Keefe if she did fruit”
All of these symptoms happened to me long before menopause. The incontinence, atrophy with pain during intercourse, dryness, deflated labia, and finally after several laser sessions opted for surgery for my anterior and posterior prolapse. Could estogen have saved me from all of that?!
Yes.
I would like to add that crunches, kegals and sex help keep everything strong too…I kept having the horrible urge to make it to the bathroom or 2 drops when I sneeze…after starting exercise it has completely gone away…these are muscles that need to be exercised too
I went through menopause at about 43 and now at 65 I get my period or bleed a few time a year. It started when I was 62. I go and get these test done and everything(no cancer) is ok so far. But c’mon!
Did you happen to get the covid shot? The LNPs (lipid envelopes in which the modified mRNA is carried) in the shot concentrated in ovaries of rats in a Japanese study. Lots and lots of post-menopausal women getting new bleeding after getting the shots. Naomi Wolf here on Substack has written about this. James Thorpe MD is a physician also talking about these effects.
I never got the V but every time my elderly parents got their boosters i would bleed immediately after my exposure to them for 2 to 3 days on between my periods. Im in peri but dont have any spotting or abnormal bleeding otherwise, just 48+day cycles..
I had a similar experience being around my recently boosted inlaws.
Yes I did.
If you are interested in exploring options for addressing covid shot effects on your body, you can check out this: https://imahealth.org/providers/
You also can look locally for functional medicine or naturopathic physicians who treat "long covid," as much of what is called long covid is actually injury due to the shots. So that verbiage may indicate an openness to considering the shot as the cause of your menstrual concerns.
Unfortunately most mainstream physicians are not being taught how to recognize, let alone treat, harms from the shots. You also can look around on Substack for folks discussing solutions. Do your research and make sure what you find makes sense and is understandable to you. Best wishes!
Long Covid is not a vaccine injury. The first cases occurred in 2020, LONG before vaccines were available. And it continues to occur, with higher rates in UNvaccinated people.
You are correct absolutely that long covid occurred prior to the shots and that it occurs in people who haven't taken the shots.
However, many people with vaccine injury are being labeled as long covid because drs have no other diagnosis. (They also get labeled as mentally ill in some cases, but I digress.).
The covid vaccines do not prevent covid infections. Cleveland Clinic studies have demonstrated that the more doses of the vaccine one has received, the more likely one is to get sick with covid. They also have demonstrated immune dysfunction with multiple covid shots, leading to altered immunoglobulin levels such that the body becomes more tolerant of the virus.
Spike protein is a very pathogenic protein. This is the protein produced by the mod-mRNA shots. The protein has been found to be present in people up to two years post-jab, suggesting that at least for some people, the mRNA is still present and producing spike. It may persist longer - those studies have not yet been done.
Not many doctors understand post menopausal and I feel like they don’t care
I thank you very much for your knowledge and support
We need more doctors like you in this field
Like puberty, menopause is not an illness so in itself not a medical issue.
I not only have GSM but also lichen sclerosis. The changes were unexpectedly emotional. Treatment has shown positive improvements.
Ok. Now hear me out.. it gets old along with the rest of you. Shocking I know!