Menopause Support Group
Menopause is the physiological cessation of menstrual cycles associated with advancing age. It normally occurs in women between the ages of 45 and 55, when the body begins to slow and stop the production of eggs, estrogen and progesterone production decreases, and menstruation diminishes, eventually stopping altogether.
If any of you guys get these, you know what I mean. If you don't get them, consider yourself lucky. (I forgot to put this on dech's list of symptoms!)
I could always feel mine starting around 4 A.M. whether I slept at all or not at all that night.
I'd feel a disturbance in my lowerback and I'd start to pray, "Please let it stop." But it would grow and surge up my spine and then spread out across my arms and into my fingers, which would become swollen and stiff.
Docs only know terms like Hot Flash or Night Sweat. And they think one is like a flash bulb going off, and the other is at worse like a sudden fever.
In my case, i found that fortunately the adrenal surges responded almost immediately to ERT (estrogen replacement). I believe it was my brain putting out a signal for estrogen to my adrenals (which should produce the hormone), but my adrenals being shot couldn't do it.
Besides the ERT I am doing everything I can to be naturally healthy. I am feeding my adrenals herbs specifically for them. There are products in the health food store (capsules mainly .We like capsules) that are vegetarian (no animal adrenal in it) that I find really help.
I could always feel mine starting around 4 A.M. whether I slept at all or not at all that night.
I'd feel a disturbance in my lowerback and I'd start to pray, "Please let it stop." But it would grow and surge up my spine and then spread out across my arms and into my fingers, which would become swollen and stiff.
Docs only know terms like Hot Flash or Night Sweat. And they think one is like a flash bulb going off, and the other is at worse like a sudden fever.
In my case, i found that fortunately the adrenal surges responded almost immediately to ERT (estrogen replacement). I believe it was my brain putting out a signal for estrogen to my adrenals (which should produce the hormone), but my adrenals being shot couldn't do it.
Besides the ERT I am doing everything I can to be naturally healthy. I am feeding my adrenals herbs specifically for them. There are products in the health food store (capsules mainly .We like capsules) that are vegetarian (no animal adrenal in it) that I find really help.
I did experience adrenal fatigue though in the worst of my symptoms and it left me horribly drained and exhausted. I too took supplements to boost them and I guess it helped. Truthfully, it's been a number of years now so I can't exactly remember.
Magnolia
www.theperimenopauseblog.com
Vegetarian adrenal supplements did help.
It's a shame that many of us let the stress nearly kill us before we figure out that "stress is a killer".
OK, everyone relax and breathe now! :-)
Magnolia
www.theperimenopauseblog.com