“So does mean that I am going to go through pre-menopause too?”
At this point, I didn’t know what to tell her. I felt bad, but at least she has the pair now. Yes, I am a young grandma. I said to her that if it were simply a matter of having more children because that is what she wants, then having them while she is young would be the wise thing to do. She did not seem to be moved with the subject so I moved on and attended to the family.
Who would know that one of the closest people to me went through the same thing? My own daughter! Memory loss? I doubt it, just a misplacement of memory.
Some of my friends talk about menopause like it is nothing. So why am I making such a big deal out of it? I guess it is because of the horror stories that I had heard of in the past and because those stories do not pair with me at all. When I was a little girl, I thought that all menopausal women were mean because of the stories that I had heard. Of course, that changed with time, self-discovery and education.
I talked to some of my male friends about their wives and menopause but it was taboo so I sorted out for my own resources and found Male Menopause? No Myth a CBS News Video.
According to the news video, men’s menopause is slightly different from women’s menopause, meaning that men will still produce testosterone and be able to have babies well into their nineties. When women go through menopause, their estrogen levels not only drop but also diminish in their postmenopausal stage, not being able to bear children. However, for women, once their menopausal stage is over, their symptoms cede completely while men still experience hot flashes and other symptoms up to their sixties, seventies, and eighties. I guess one outweighs the other.
For me, the best way to combat uncomfortable symptoms besides the choice of hormonal replacement therapy or herbal remedies is to go along with it instead of resisting it. Resisting the symptoms and lack of knowledge or education may impose in one’s life a situation that can be havoc to our health, our emotions, daily activities, marriage, relationships with other’s, even at work.
