In Pre-Mature Menopause: Part I, I discussed my discovery of a premature condition of menopause. In the last few weeks, I have been doing research on the internet, talking to friends, asking questions to women, (yes all of sudden I feel empathy for other women), and noting my own experiences. Yes, I have done my homework.
While it has not been easy for me to do this research as I have been busy with work, school, and travel, I still found the time to allocate my resources. Not only am I curious of the changes that are occurring to my body, but I am also an inquisitive human being by nature. Anything that has to do with the senses and changes to the physical, emotional, and spiritual well being shape me to be the person that I am today that will eventually affect and mold me for tomorrow.
In conducting a thorough search on the Internet, I found a report (Kaufert and Gilbert 1986) that said that in 1981the World Health Organization defined menopause as an estrogen deficiency disease… as a complex and natural life transition that officially conceptualized as a pathological process.
Menopause a disease? Menopause is a natural process that every woman goes through. It could happen to you if you are in your forties, fifties, or sixties. The average age for a woman to go through menopause is fifty-one.
So what would cause me to be a preemie?
I remember going to the doctor to get an examination because I thought that I could be pregnant about two and a half years ago. I was feeling nauseated, I was late two weeks for my period and I was very nervous. Kids after eighteen years and to do it all over again? If I was pregnant I was happy but if I wasn’t I would be happier.
When the nurse came in to give me the test results, she told me that I was not pregnant. Oh too bad, I thought, I was beginning to think of baby names. The nurse also asked me if I was under any stress, to calm down and to take things easy. But the one question she did ask me and I did not pay any mind to until now was, “Are you going through menopause? Because your estrogen levels are seemingly low.” Who me? No way! How could I? Why should I?
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