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Breast cancer, Breast cancer policy, Breast cancer survivor, Breast health, healthy aging, Menopause, Perimenopause
What You Need to Know About Menopause and Breast Cancer
Read More: What You Need to Know About Menopause and Breast CancerFive years ago, I felt a lump in my right breast and was later diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer. The cancer was hormone positive, so along with chemotherapy, radiation and double mastectomy, I took drugs to block the production of estrogen in my body — and went into early menopause at the age of…
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Perimenopause Is Like the Weather: It Can Be Terrible, but It Will Pass
Read More: Perimenopause Is Like the Weather: It Can Be Terrible, but It Will PassThe trickle arrives at 11 a.m. A plum-colored stain on the toilet paper. A scarlet plume that heralds the end of my melancholic misery. “It came! It came!” I rush to the door and call down the hall to my husband, who is doing the dishes. “Congratulations!” he calls back, and I feel a surge…
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How to Get Ready for Menopause
Read More: How to Get Ready for MenopauseAs Molly struggled to get rid of the extra weight around her midsection, she began to wish she had prepared better for menopause. “I didn’t realize how much my metabolism would slow down, and I would have to watch my weight more. It really stressed me out,” said Molly, 59. Molly is far from alone.…
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Do Transgender Women Experience Menopause?
Read More: Do Transgender Women Experience Menopause?Medically reviewed by Dr. Sarah Pickle. Lisa Scheps, an activist and artistic director, experienced menopause-like hot flashes after going off estrogen for 10 days before a surgery. “I wouldn’t say that I’ve experienced perimenopause or menopause like a cis woman would have, but I certainly know what a hot flash feels like,” said Scheps, 62,…
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Osteoporosis Isn’t a Given
Read More: Osteoporosis Isn’t a GivenOctober 20 is World Osteoporosis Day When Sherry Morse fell off a horse in 2015, she broke a lot of bones and suffered a “hanging shoulder injury,” typically the result of a high-speed car accident. An orthopedist said he might expect that level of severity if someone fell out of an airplane. “I came off…
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The Different Stages of Menstruation
Read More: The Different Stages of MenstruationThough the average woman has her period for 40 years, the way it affects her body and the way she feels about it often change as she ages. As with everything else related to health, a menstrual cycle is not static; it evolves over a woman’s lifetime. How does our period change as we age?…
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Menopausal and Feeling Forgetful? Brain Fog Might Be to Blame
Read More: Menopausal and Feeling Forgetful? Brain Fog Might Be to BlameMenofog. Mentalpause. Perifog. Menobrain. Brain fog has plenty of nicknames, but whatever you call it, this menopause symptom causes distress for women who suffer from it. “I find it frustrating. I feel stupid,” Tania Wastney, 52, told HealthyWomen. Wastney described her brain fog as simple mix-ups — putting milk in her coffee instead of cream…
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We Need to Raise Awareness of Women’s Migraine Disease in the Workplace
Read More: We Need to Raise Awareness of Women’s Migraine Disease in the WorkplaceI have a nursing colleague who works in the hospital nursery. She loves caring for the babies and their mothers, but going to work used to literally make her sick. That’s because she suffers from migraine disease, and the fluorescent lights in the nursery trigger her headaches. Before she was diagnosed and found a treatment…
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Anxiety, Depression, Estrogen, healthy aging, Hormones, Menopause, mental health, Perimenopause, Stress
Dealing With Rage During the Perimenopause Transition and Beyond
Read More: Dealing With Rage During the Perimenopause Transition and BeyondThe rage hit Juliet Doherty like a train. At 48 years old, Doherty had been in perimenopause for two years, living with daily headaches, sore breasts and irregular periods. But it had been manageable. “Naively, I believed that if that was all it was, I would be fine,” Doherty said. That suddenly changed when she…
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Aging well, Ceo blog, healthy aging, Hormones, Menopause, mental health, Perimenopause, Sexual health
Menopause Goes Beyond Reproductive Issues
Read More: Menopause Goes Beyond Reproductive IssuesSmall stepsEvery week, I go running with a group of women. We’re all about the same age and over the years we’ve compared notes on everything from parenting to gardening. Lately, our conversations have turned to signs of perimenopause — who’s having hot flashes or trouble sleeping, when we had our last period and whether…
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The Secret to Combating Perimenopause Weight Gain
Read More: The Secret to Combating Perimenopause Weight GainFor most of my mother’s life, she was able to keep to a healthy weight with little effort, but perimenopause changed that. She was surprised to see that she was gaining weight. My mom wasn’t alone in this. Weight gain during perimenopause is a concern for a lot of women. So I reached out to…
