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Tag Archives: menopause

Dec212016Dec 21 2016

How to Lose Weight When the Odds Are Stacked Against You

by KatieP, in category Health | Midlife

I have experienced the double whammy of weight gain – quitting smoking and entering full-blown menopause. Now, while just ‘eating less and moving more’ or ‘mindful eating’ might have worked when I was younger, at a certain age, losing weight gets harder and harder. I  needed to do something more than simply count calories. In the… Read More

Jul312015Oct 12 2015

7 Things No One Tells You About Your Fifties

by KatieP, in category Health | Midlife
Midlife isn't a downward spiral to the grave, it's a time of freedom and awakening.

The only thing more talked about on women’s blogs than children is The Change. Somewhere around your fifties, you stop having your period and start having things that they call Symptoms. These are physical and psychological changes that seem to have the power to wreck lives and signal the start of a downward spiral into… Read More

Jul152014Jul 27 2015

The Mermaid

by KatieP, in category Health | Sexuality

You, who are approaching the end of your fertile years, hear the call of the sea.
You ache for the cool water to ease the hot blush on your face, to soften your dry elbows and erase the lines around your eyes.

Oct252013Oct 25 2013

Using my imagination

by KatieP, in category Health | Midlife

How telling myself stories, which may or may not be true, has changed me.

Oct242013Oct 24 2013

I’m HOT [but not in a good way]

by KatieP, in category Health | Midlife

The dreaded hot flushes are back. This is the third time I’ve been afflicted. The other two times they disappeared when my period came back.

Feb252013Feb 25 2013

Bikram Bonus?

by KatieP, in category Health | Midlife

I haven’t been to class since Friday. Having three days off is not what I planned. Saturday, raining and windy, was my allocated day off and I expected to be back in the hot room on Sunday. But then the last thing I imagined happened …

Dec112012

perry.meno.paws

by KatieP, in category Health | Midlife
menopause

My period has disappeared again. It happened once before for three months and then it came back. I know it isn’t coming back any time soon because my boobs aren’t sore (PMT). But it seems that the price of smaller, happier breasts is the dreaded hot flushes. It is hard to explain how weird a… Read More

Sep242012Sep 24 2012

Connection to Me

by KatieP, in category Health | Midlife
statue

What amazes me is this connection with my body. When I was dieting, I tried so hard to ignore the biological impulse of hunger that I blocked everything else out.

Sep272011Sep 27 2011

Menopause IV : The Doctor Fucks Up

by KatieP, in category Health | Midlife
First-Signs-Of-Menopause

So today I got the results of my blood test back from Thursday and my FSH is a whopping 50! Last Monday it was 10. So I am menopausal after all. The whole iron thing was a crock too — she says I must have “eaten something”.

Sep232011Sep 23 2011

Menopause Part III : The Visit to the Real Doctor

by KatieP, in category Health | Midlife

I went to the doctor on Monday because I wasn’t sleeping. The hot flushes wake me up at least twice a night. As I have now missed two periods I self-diagnosed myself as having peri-menopause/menopause.

Sep122011Sep 12 2011

Menopause Part II : The visit to the Chinese Doctor

by KatieP, in category Health | Midlife
massage suite

I sit in the small consulting room barely big enough for the massage table in the middle on a small green vinyl stool which looks like it came from my parents’ kitchen. On the other side of the room sits a Chinese man peering at me.
“It’s menopause,” I say, “I haven’t slept for two weeks because the hot flushes keep waking me up at night.”

Sep42011Sep 12 2011

And so it begins — welcome to *the change*

by KatieP, in category Health | Midlife
menopause

So ladies, it appears that one month short of my 47th birthday I am heading into the unchartered territory of menopause (or peri-menopause to be precise). After two years of periods like clockwork after I gave up dieting, this month I skipped it.

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