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No one wants to take this one on? Hmmphh. Okay, here's my spin.
When I was in my late thirties, I'd been through a year or so of night sweats when a conversation struck up with my 60-some-year old co-worker who had a daughter just a few years older than me. She told me her daughter began to take Promensil (a soy-based natural attack) in her late thirties. They were natural and wouldn't harm me so I began taking them regularly after I did some research. I took them faithfully until I was in my mid-40s. They did help and my symptoms lessened, but somewhere just before that, the symptoms became more severe again and I began to purchase progesterone, using the cream 2 or 3 times per week.
Other than night sweats and occasional mild flashes, I never had much in the way of symptoms. Moody? Ha. I'm always moody, always been moody. Sexually, my appetite's never ever waned. Somehow I just think that's me, personality overpowering hormones, ya know?
My period stopped at some point in my mid 40s for 3 or 4 months, then I had one final period and that was that. I had visited a gynecologist during that timeframe who told me that according to my bloodwork, I was in the early stages of menopause. Maybe my blood didn't know what my body had been through, but I really haven't had much, if anything, in the way of symptoms within a few months of that last period.
I know I didn't want to take any prescription medications, so I chose to go all-natural and have been fine with the results. For me, it wasn't very dramatic. Maybe the red clover for all that time really helped, who knows? I still have the same desires and still think I'm 17 at times.
Your experience may differ. We're all different and have different experiences that just may influence how it goes.
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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
Mark Twain
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