by Laura Bogush | Jan 7, 2025 | Article, Laura Bogush, Menopause, Women's Health & Wellness
I’ve been taking hormone replacement therapy for nearly 30 years. It’s improved my quality of life and physical health. I wouldn’t want to live without it. At age 37, my periods stopped abruptly. I would awaken at night, hot and drenched in sweat. These episodes...
by Lakota | Jan 7, 2025 | Article, Lakota Fredette, Menopause, Women's Health & Wellness
When I was 17 I decided I was ready to have penetrative sex with my then boyfriend. I went to planned parenthood with my mom and they put me on the pill. I gave it a good try for a few months and the mood swings were not working for me. I went back in, told them and...
by Grace Oasis | Jan 7, 2025 | Article, Grace Oasis, Menopause, Women's Health & Wellness
Revisiting Menopausal Hormone Therapy When I was a new Nurse Practitioner (NP), the Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) evidence-based medicine guidelines scared the sh * t out of many prescribers. I was one of them. HRT went from being the miracle drugs for treating...
by Lincoln | Jan 7, 2025 | Article, Lincoln, Menopause, Women's Health & Wellness
Menopause is a Life Process not a medical condition. And it’s not something that’s unfortunately wrong with 51% of the human population and toothed whales. I’m still learning how to menopause in a good way. The last four years have been the hardest health years of my...
by Lincoln | Jan 7, 2025 | Article, Lincoln, Menopause, Women's Health & Wellness
As wild as they are, the hot flashes I’ve started having the past couple months are easier than the hemorrhaging I was experiencing the last couple years. Depending on who you talk to, hemorrhaging is a sign of perimenopause and also caused by environmental factors....
by Carlin Ross | Jan 7, 2025 | Article, Carlin Ross, Menopause, Women's Health & Wellness
The only information I had about menopause came from vaginal dryness commercials, sit com punchlines, and Betty’s description of her “heat orgasms”. At the stroke of 50, I started to feel like I was losing my grip on reality. I felt angry all the time. I woke up...
