#Medical menopause

[blackbird-brewster]

I keep getting cranky for no apparent reason, then I stop and remember that I'm going through Menopause and I'm just having really bad mood swings.

What a time! 35 and already three months into medical menopause. IT hasn't been an enjoyable experience, that's for sure.

My worst side effects have been the HORRIBLY atrocious hot flashes (so hot that it feels like my skin is molten lava. So uncomfortable that it makes me nauseous from being SO overheated) I basically have an ice pack tucked under my boobs all the time. It's a whole fucking thing. Especially since this past week has seen the hottest temps all summer and this week it's been SO fucking hot. Menopause + Summer = me being miserable.

I also started seeing significant hair loss, which has been emotional. I haven't had hair longer than like 2 inches, in over a decade. But I grew it out enough to have a mullet, the back length nearly hit my shoulders. But due to the distress of losing chunks of hair every time I washed it, plus the fact hair on my neck made me all that much hotter .... I shaved it all off. It wasn't until after I buzzed it that I realised my mullet had really been giving me gender euphoria and even though I've spent years with a shaved head, this time in particular, has felt really difficult for me.

And now, the mood swings. They sneak up on me. I'll be chilling, minding my business, then something small will happen and suddenly I'm on the verge of a meltdown. Mood swings and lowered resilience really do not mix well with my neurodivergent brain.

I've just changed to a higher dose of estrogen which is supposed to help even out all of the symptoms, and I just have to hope and pray it does. Because, this is already gruelling and the prospect that this is my new norm for the foreseeable future really uhhhhh sucks.

#about me 2k23 #trans healthcare #medical menopause #The Menopause™

[meirimerens]

youtube shorts is just tiktok without being on the app the amount of "i'm a [qualification] and [misinformation]" could make one turn their skin inside-out in protest. "i'm a board-certified OB-GYN & it's only been about the last hundred years that women have actually experienced menopause. We didn't live long enough to experience it" how can you be so incredibly wrong about something so integral to your practice. King of the Hittites Hattusilis III was told in 1250 BCE that his sister was too old to reproduce at age 50+. Aristotle wrote in the 4th century BCE that women stopped menstruating between ages 40 to 50, common menopause ages today still. i cannot begin to tell you how 4th century & 1250 BCE don't really count as "the last hundred years" unless that -s is doing a lot of heavy lifting. waiter waiter more misinformation laws.

#do they just be making anybody an ob-gyn these days. #what ''board'' is certifying this. your car's dashboard? #life expectancy for the past millennia was heavily skewed down because surviving infancy was Not Easy #but if you made it past that you could live to your 50s if not later. #we have multiple hypotheses about PREHISTORIC WOMEN'S menopause and how post-reproductive life in humans could have been an #integral part of the life of the tribe with help with child-rearing; gathering; hunting; medicine. like hello. #prehistoric menopausal women GET BEHIND ME [wolf growling] #neigh (blabbers) #sorry. i'm insane. gyno health and everything about periods & menopause is already so little understood & the wider medical body kinda #dgaf about if you keel out in pain from preventable menstrual diseases so if i catch anyone spreading misinformation. i'm going beastmode.

[kthulhu42]

TRAs stop comparing women of colour to men challenge: impossible

#radblr #radical feminism #terfblr #feminism #sexism #gender critical #“Womens bodies are finally being studied and this could mean that mens healthcare will get better” um #Medical misogyny #MENSTRUATION AND MENOPAUSE MAY HAVE THE WORD MEN IN THEM BUT MEN DO NOT SUFFER FROM THEM

[virginstoner666]

get off the battlefield. come play toys w me.

#medic's fine hes just resting his eyes #having a menopausal moment #tf2 medic #tf2 engineer #tf2 demo #tf2 pyro #sniper #im too lazy to edit everyone in the KITTY ZONE (tm) #ill get around to it #tf2 #team fortress two

[observers-journal]

Some healthcare advice for my lovely ladies here..

I was just reading this New York Times article about how women of color experience Perimenopause and Menopause differently from the conventionally established standards according to the White Race.

Clearly, women from different races have very different experiences, duration, and intensity of symptoms. Just a gentle reminder to all my wonderful women here: do not ignore what your body tells you. Healthcare systems are biased to ignore women's pain, doctors have limited understanding of our anatomies, and these issues are far worse when we account race into the equation as well. Speak up if your doctor doesn't take you seriously.

Also, always remember to get scanned for breast and cervical cancers. Keep an eye out for anything unusual. Love y'all! ❤️

The article is behind a paywall. Please message me if you want to read the whole article!

#not tenoch related #healthcare systems are racist too #and sexist #womens health #women of color #healthcare racism #medical racism #menopause #perimenopause

[haggishlyhagging]

Another variation on the theme of chemical cures for female impurity is the ritual of estrogen replacement therapy, contemporary gynecology's response to the threat presented to males by menopause. As Emily Culpepper has shown, the history of attitudes toward menstruation from ancient times to the present demonstrates male fear, envy, and hatred of women. The menstruating woman is called filthy, sick, unbalanced, ritually impure. In patriarchy her bloodshed is made into a badge of shame, a sign of her radical ontological impurity. It is consistent with the logic of the woman loathers' doublethink that the cessation of menstruation is also horrifying. Since every woman's entire being is fetishized by men, that is, condensed, displaced, and symbolized in her sexual organs and functions, the cessation of any of these functions implies Female Power of Absence. Since the frustrated "worshipper's" desire for control is threatened, fetishized menopausal and post-menopausal women must be "kicked, stamped on, and dragged through the mud."

When women become free of the possibility of impregnation, one of the time-honored means of imprisoning females is removed. What frustrates The Jailors is the fact that freedom is attained not by the "divine" acts of sadistic surgical castrators but by natural processes of female biology. Freedom from pregnancy is evil/impure in the Gynecological State if it is not "created" by the surgeon's knife or by the doctor's chemicals. The postmenopausal woman is a potential escapee, deviant, Crone. Therefore, she must be cured.

The woman perceived as threatening to become a free/wild Crone is inundated with propaganda to convince her that menopause is a sickness which must be "treated," However, in order to be adequately convincing, the persuaders must first persuade themselves. Thus an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine pontificates that "the unaltered hormonal state of the untreated menopause [is a] possible contributory factor in the causation of cancer (emphasis mine]." Implying that menopause is carcinogenic, the medical messiahs neglect to mention that this is a universal and natural process in women, found in areas of the globe where cancer is unknown. These physicians, who are themselves "contributory factors in the causation of cancer," use a malignant misconception of menopause to support the idea that more "knowledge" (i.e., experimentation upon women) is needed to find a "safe type of hormone replacement therapy."

-Mary Daly, Gyn/Ecology

#mary daly #medical misogyny #menopause #female oppression #woman hating

[ahedderick]

Menopaused

When I was 40 I started having hot flashes. Not too bad, compared to what other people described, but definitely perimenopause. There were ups and downs (which would actually be a whole other post - because at one point my body started producing androgens instead of estrogen), however, at 46 everything shut down for good, and I was formally in menopause.

Not the I could get any doctor to believe that, because apparently nobody, even doctors, can understand that average age for menopause does not mean 'every single woman reaches menopause exactly at age 51.' That is NOT how averages work. I was early. Other people are later. THAT is how averages work.

I felt pretty good about it, though! All done, no more fuss or mess, no problem. Three or four years went by and one day - like a lightswitch - the hot flashes were back. Much worse this time, waking me multiple times every night drenched in sweat. And while there is, technically, medical treatment for that? It just consists of replacing the missing hormones. Which means, if you think it through, that you are just putting off the misery; you will have to go through it later when you go off HRT!! My doctor was sympathetic in explaining that, but we both felt that it would be better to just go through it instead of putting it off.

Unfortunately. I am now 54. And the hotflashes continue, seemingly a permanent misery. Worse in winter than summer, because my body tries to keep me warm and uh, overshoots the mark. By a lot. So I freeze and burn and freeze again. And it's bloody-damned inconvenient! Sweating and swearing, I trudge forward.

#medical #health #women's health #menopause #perimenopause #aging

[cervinelich]

PSA FOR TRANSMASCS

And afab people in general. There's gonna be some TMI here so I apologize in advance.

So, I was using some nipple suction things for sex reasons when I noticed that a tiny bead of sticky fluid had come out of one of my nipples - and, firstly, you should always tell your doctor if you are having nipple discharge.

I told my doctor about it and she referred me to get a mammogram and breast ultrasound because this can be a sign of cancer or infection. It can also be caused by hormone irregularity (for instance, if you are on testosterone).

Due to a bunch of insurance shit I wasn't able to get in to my mammogram/ultrasound until 5 months after the initial discharge and in the meantime I was still using the nipple suction bc 1. I like it and 2. I kind of had a morbid curiosity about the discharge tbh.

Here's the MOST important part.

It wasn't until I spoke to the ultrasound technician 5 months later that she told me under no circumstances should I be intentionally expressing the discharge.

My results all came back negative and it turns out it was just hormonal, however my regular doctor had not told me that expressing the discharge opens up your mammary ducts to infection. The more they open, the more likely they are to get infected. And, according to the technician, it is not easily treated with antibiotics and is extremely painful - and sometimes requires surgery.

Unfortunately for me this means no more suction devices, rip, but since my doctor had neglected to tell me about this I thought it was worth spreading the word.

#medical #afab #transmasc #psa #its always weird to me the way that every PCP who learns I'm on testosterone gives me weird condescending lectures #about how hormones affect the body and do I really know what I am doing #and yet there are constant never ending stories of doctors simply not telling afab people really basic warning signs about their bodies #I'm thinking of course about that one post by the doctor about menopausal symptoms of cancer #anyway if you are on testosterone this might happen to you and even if it is caused by hormones you should still tell your doctor #just in case

[holocene-sims]

five oc facts

@sparkiekong tagged me a VERY veryyyyy long time ago and i'm just now getting to this tag months later (i'm so sorry 😭)

i'll tag: @thebramblewood @mangosimoothie @queeniecook @stargazer-sims @dandylion240 @jonquilyst 🤍

i just did a similar prompt for áine, who is this sim's niece, so how about facts for cathal? he's also a newbie to my sims universe, and i adore him and his personality tbh, but canon reasons make it hard for him to be included too much outside of random simblr posts like this

he is WILDLY younger than all his other siblings (like by 20 years) and was a total surprise baby. really, he's kind of a medical miracle because he was born after his mother went into menopause and was in her 40s, and no one knew he even existed until he randomly sprang into the world one august morning lmfao 💀

i think i mentioned it in one post but he's been a vegetarian for most of his life! actually, he declared himself a vegan when he was, like, six years old; he figured out what eggs and meat really were and then refused to eat animal products for decades. much to his dismay, he did have to introduce eggs and milk and whatnot back into his diet when he ran into a few nutritional deficiencies from veganism, but he's made his peace with being a vegetarian instead 🥦

he 100% does not remember his father outside of what he looked like. his dad (and aoife's younger brother) died very abruptly and super young of a heart attack when cathal was maybe three or so, and it's something that really nags at him. he's well aware there's nothing he can do about it, but he feels some strange mix of bad emotions that he never experienced a father-son bond, and that makes him 100x as serious about being a good father who'll be around a LONG time and just generally treating anyone younger than him well. he doesn't want anyone else feeling that type of loss 🥲

he actually writes an agricultural column in the local online newspaper and contributes to the county farmer's almanac lol. his big shtick is sustainability in agriculture and how new green technologies should be combined with traditional cultural approaches to the land so the earth doesn't die in, like, 10 years from excessive carbon emissions 🍃💚

he met his wife yvonne in a ballroom dance class! he was just bored one day in college and went to the class to do something new, and he immediately developed the biggest crush on the instructor. he just kept going back every week until he was brave enough to ask her out, and when he did, they hit it off. oh, and this is totally their thing - he has quite literally taken her dancing every weekend since they got together 😭😭😭

#SORRY THIS WAS SO MUCH #i ended up giving way more info for him than aine but cathal actually had a bunch of speaking parts in the story so i had more inspo #btw ngl i didn't even realize there was such an age gap between even him and eimear until like last week #at which point i had to come up with a way to explain it and i'm totally ripping some inspo from an episode of chicago med #where this exact thing happened: a lady had a kid after menopause lmao which is somehow technically possible #yes i did go on a rabbit hole reading real medical cases of this #also *keeps talking* yes he is supposed to be a sort of reflection/foil/something of grant #obviously not the same person and difference experiences but there is supposed to be a concurrent theme here of growth and goodness #and the fact that they were surprise youngest kids but one was treated well despite some life problems and one was not #tag games #hlcn: cathal #hlcn: oc info #hlcn: story extras

[aprofessionalwithoutstandards]

i need to knock up medic NOW (i have a pussy but that won't stop me from impregnating this man)

He's arguably the most menopausal tf2 guy so good luck with that anon. Least horny tf2 fan

#i LIKE the menopause actually. i can keep cumming in my milfy ziploc bag to no recourse #ask #anon #medic #mick dicks

[isaksbestpillow]

Guess who just spent five hours with phone in hand anxiously waiting for a call that lasted two minutes

#i'm back in special healthcare baby #next steps are medical menopause and surgery number two #so time to get nervous about that now i guess

[murderousink23]

10/18/2023 is National Necktie Day 👔🇭🇷, World Menopause Day 🌎, Spiritual Consent Day 🇰🇿, National Chocolate Cupcake Say 🧁🇺🇲, National No Beard Day 🧔🇺🇲, National Exascale Day 🇺🇲, BRA Day USA 👙🇺🇲, Hagfish Day 🐟🇺🇲, Medical Assistants Recognition Day 🇺🇲, Support Your Local Chamber of Commerce 🇺🇲

#national necktie day #world menopause day #spiritual consent day #national chocolate cupcake day #national exascale day #bra day usa #hagfish day #medical assistants recognition day #support your local chamber of commerce

[deathbypufferfish]

So basically a little PSA that tomorrow I'm starting the process to medically induce menopause and shut down my ovaries (a series of shots). The first month of this is likely to be really rough emotionally and physically because I'm going to be speedrunning menopause and in the process dumping a whole lot of hormones at once 😎 This is a very good thing to be happening for me!

But I wanted to let y'all know in case I am less active and not to worry if I am acting less puffer-y. But I don't expect to take a break and even if I do the queue is filled up.

Anyways rip my ovaries you will not be missed! Party at my place to celebrate its death!

#puffer talks #tw medical #not like I'll post vents i dont really do that anyways #it could go fine but im being cautious #setting up a gameplan to keep myself emotionally level #menopause speedrun!!!!! #hot flashes time!!!! #going to put up a piece of paper in my room to remind myself i am menopausing and the world isnt ending

[mermazeablaze]

So I went to my gyno visit today at the Indian Clinic. I have been having issues hemorrhaging during my periods, off & on since 2013 (23yrs old, now 33). I already have children & my tubes are tied. I want a hysterectomy. My gyno is refusing.

Some Backstory:

A male gyno specialist (2013) refused hysterectomy & kept saying, "Tubals can be reversed. You might want more children. Hysterectomies are permanent."

I have three children & due to a hereditary disorder anesthesia increases my chances of seizures. I almost DIED during my last child's birth, C-section including tubal **AND** sedated.

When I told him I was firm on not having anymore biological children because of that. He kept pushing for 'uterine/endometrial ablation'. Which is where they burn off your uterine lining to pause your periods or can do it enough where you don't have another period. I told him no & sought a second opinion.

My second opinion was a female gyno who tested my hormone levels, ultrasounds, MRI &EKGs even to rule out pregnancy &/or hormone imbalance. Everything came back fine. Yet I was still hemorrhaging.

Female gyno insinuated I was either exaggerating or lying about the bleeding. So I saved a day's worth of saturated feminine products & brought them to her. She was grossed out, but realized I was telling the truth.

Female gyno placed me on Seasonique. A birth control pill which gives you four periods a year, to see if it would help regulate the bleeding. It did for almost a year, by then 2014. But it started giving me intense depression & irrational thoughts.

Female gyno told me to stop taking it & wait a month before trying something else.

During that time my right arm not my left would tingle off & on. I would get woozy & nauseous. Cold sweats & feel clammy. One night all of those symptoms descended upon me except with the addition of my heart racing. Not hurting just racing. & my body was screaming something wasn't right. It's one of the few times I can consciously say I knew I could be dying. It was scary.

I went to the ER & after testing I was having a cardiac event from a blood clot forcing itself through my heart. My white blood cell count was almost FOUR TIMES the amount a person usually has during a heart attack.

I was in the hospital for a little over a week, angiogram & making sure another blood clot didn't develop. They believe the Seasonique was the cause.

Since then I've just been suffering with the sporadic hemorrhaging since then. Which is now including debilitating & excruciating pain.

Which is why I went to the gyno today, different from the previous two. Only to be told that she wasn't going to give me an updated hormone screening, ultrasound, MRI, etc. She offered me ablation or birth control.

I told her I don't see the point in ablation. It has so many horrendous possible side effects, including hemorrhaging! Plus, she would want to do the type of ablation where it rids you of a period. But a hysterectomy does the same fucking thing.

& I'm not taking birth control. Not gonna to risk either exacerbating my depression or another heart attack.

She was trying to say: But you'll need hormones after a hysterectomy!

Me: & birth control isn't hormones?!

& that I want a second opinion on the hysterectomy. I am 33, my mind has been made up since I was 23, I have kids, I have a tubal & I'm basically praying for menopause the past five years. So I don't have to keep dealing with this bullshit.

She put in a referral for the second opinion & didn't bother to talk to me about pain management. She was too busy feeling butthurt that I know what I want & need & she couldn't give me a good enough reason why aside from, "Because!"

Sidenote: When I get my hysterectomy & I will. I want a shirt made that says:

"Ask me why I'm no longer hysterical, I'm just hilarious now."

#period #menstruation #menopause #hysterectomy #hysteria #women's health #sciblr #medblr #science #medical #gynocologist #IHS #Indian Health Services #mental health #birth control #Seasonique #heart attack #cardiac event #angiogram #hormones #HRT #depression

[overtlydinosaurian]

aw hell yeah

Crazy how something 50% of the population will experience is barely funded, barely researched and hardly ever talked about. Almost like.. nah, couldn't be.

#almost like medical misogyny exists #medical misogyny #halle berry #menopause

[kimbearablykute]

My doc prescribed me a new hrt yesterday to see if it would help my insomnia. I think it made my insomnia worse. My body is so tired but my mind has never been more wide awake in my life.

#medically complex #menopause #neurospicy #I genuinely hate my body and brain #who will save me from this body of death?