Gosh. So many of us would love to have the answer to that question!
Your "menopause" symptoms actually began when you came off the HRT, correct? How long ago did you stop taking it?
Generally, even though we are all different, the process of menopause takes a few years. It takes that long for all our hormones to adjust themselves. Your experience was intensified by your surgery, of course, and later by coming off your HRT. I hope your temperature issues at night will resolve themselves sooner rather than later. It sounds like they are not hot flashes but you are just hot? Or do you wake up sweating?
There are some natural products that can help with such symptoms. Black cohosh and natural progesterone cream (made from wild yams) may alleviate the night sweats especially.
The weight gain is harder. Our metabolism slows, and it takes less to gain a pound and more to lose one. However, from the way you wrote, you have been successful in losing some of it. Is that right? What have you been doing? Are you an active exerciser? Have you changed your diet?
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Hi, Buddha2310,
Gosh. So many of us would love to have the answer to that question!
Your "menopause" symptoms actually began when you came off the HRT, correct? How long ago did you stop taking it?
Generally, even though we are all different, the process of menopause takes a few years. It takes that long for all our hormones to adjust themselves. Your experience was intensified by your surgery, of course, and later by coming off your HRT. I hope your temperature issues at night will resolve themselves sooner rather than later. It sounds like they are not hot flashes but you are just hot? Or do you wake up sweating?
There are some natural products that can help with such symptoms. Black cohosh and natural progesterone cream (made from wild yams) may alleviate the night sweats especially.
The weight gain is harder. Our metabolism slows, and it takes less to gain a pound and more to lose one. However, from the way you wrote, you have been successful in losing some of it. Is that right? What have you been doing? Are you an active exerciser? Have you changed your diet?
October 19, 2009 - 9:33amThis Comment
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