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Archive through January 21, 2008

The TVClubHouse: General Discussions ARCHIVES: Jan. 2008 ~ Mar. 2008: Health Center: Menopause and all that stuff: Archive through January 21, 2008 users admin

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Wargod
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07-16-2001

Friday, November 30, 2007 - 10:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Not near menopause yet, but I'm with Juju! I've been taking calcium for years and still don't sleep more than 4-5 hours a night. Need to change my schedule on that!

Beekindpleez
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07-18-2006

Friday, November 30, 2007 - 10:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beekindpleez a private message Print Post    
I'll try it, Tex...though I've gotten quite used to my late night prowlings. Occasionally DH wakes up and prowls with me for a bit. But it's really quite still and peaceful. Outside of the bags under my eyes, it's not entirely unpleasant.
lol

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Saturday, December 01, 2007 - 5:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
it's why they suggest a glass of warm milk at bedtime!
all i know is that before my hysterectomy, i had peri and insomnia so bad for years that i only slept maybe 3 hours a night. when i went in for my 12 weeks post op visit, i mentioned that i wasn't sleeping and hadn't been for years. she told me to take my dose of calcium at bedtime. i did and it works! i sleep at least 7 hours a night.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Saturday, December 01, 2007 - 7:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Well, I'll be dipped!!! I never even heard of that before.

Now, the only thing is I thought I read somewhere that your body can only absorb about 500 Mg at a time and the rest is wasted. I guess one of us should research that one. I have been taking 600 at breakfast and 600 at lunch.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Saturday, December 01, 2007 - 7:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
i had heard that too, but figured if it's working, don't mess with it! LOL
lots of times i will take 500 mg midday. i don't take it in the am cause of my thyriod meds.
maybe try lunch and bedtime

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Saturday, December 01, 2007 - 8:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Okay, I found it on this page:

http://cals.arizona.edu/pubs/health/az1296.html

Maybe I will go to breakfast and bedtime.

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Saturday, December 01, 2007 - 9:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
I've been taking 600 mg Calcium at noon and bedtime (because I can't take it in the morning together with th thyroid meds). And here I thought I was falling asleep quickly because I was tired.LOL

BTW, my doctor told me that in order for Calcium to be fully absorbed, one also needs 1,000 mg of Vitamin D a day. A study apparently also showed that taking the Vit D has helped fight off cancer in women. Just in case some of you didn't realise that either. It sure was news to me.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Saturday, December 01, 2007 - 1:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
My calcium pills come with the Vitamin D combined in the same pill. I get mine at Costco, which probably means Kirkland brand.

On that link I posted above, it also talks about vitamin D and calcium, as well as a whole bunch of other calcium info.

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Monday, December 03, 2007 - 8:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Just heard about this on the radio -- hot flash clinical study. Never paid much attention to clinical studies until I was diagnosed with DCIS. Now I may at least check them out. There's one I would probably have liked to join, but I was not eligible.

Crzndeb
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07-26-2004

Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 1:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Crzndeb a private message Print Post    
I take a liquid calcium....One capful has 1,000 mg Calcium, 500 mg Magnesium and 400 IU of Vit D3...I have been a slacker taking it, though. I need to get back on routine. I haven't been sleeping well. Haven't had a period in 2 years, but still get the hot flashes. Too bad it's just me and the dog...he doesn't really appreciate my stripping routine.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 9:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
LOL, Crzndeb!!!

Crzndeb
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07-26-2004

Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 8:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Crzndeb a private message Print Post    
I signed up for the Clinical study. The clinic is only 10 miles away, so I'll let you all know when they contact me.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Sunday, December 09, 2007 - 8:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
well, i couldn't do it. the hot flashes were awful but liveable. the night sweats that woke me up at 4 am were hard. my heart felt like it was pounding out of my chest, my muscles felt like i had just finished pumping about 100 lbs of weight.
i slapped a patch on last night!

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Sunday, December 09, 2007 - 11:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
I hear ya, Texannie. I didn't even let it get to that level of pain before I went back to meds.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Sunday, December 09, 2007 - 4:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
i was doing ok and then it seem like it was all the sudden that i went down hill!!

Meme9
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07-30-2001

Sunday, December 09, 2007 - 9:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Meme9 a private message Print Post    
Something that might help some. When you feel the hot flashes start the wave, take a moment to close your eyes, breathe deeply and slowly(in the nose, out the mouth), shake off the stress. I know it sounds odd, but it helped me to do the minny pause thingy(LOL) without hormones. Once I made the connection between the emotional stresses to the hot flashes it made it so much easier to manage.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Monday, December 10, 2007 - 6:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
I am sound asleep when most of them happen! The daytime ones aren't that bad. I don't think for me there is an emotion connection, they happen at too random of times. Besides, they were the least of the problems.

Meme9
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07-30-2001

Monday, December 10, 2007 - 8:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Meme9 a private message Print Post    
Yeah, I know, I thought mine your random too, at least until I started paying very close attention. Sometimes the stress, I didn't notice until the flash. Well, it's heck to go through, and if you can find anything that helps and works...use it.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Monday, December 10, 2007 - 10:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
that's just too depressing to consider that i am stressing in my sleep! LOL

Crzndeb
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07-26-2004

Friday, December 21, 2007 - 2:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Crzndeb a private message Print Post    
I started the clinical study this week and so far I am just keeping a diary of the hot flashes..I go back on Jan 10th. That's when they do the big stuff...Pap, TVU (Transvaginal ultrasound), Endometrial Biopsy and Blood/Urine Samples. I won't be assigned medication until visit 3 and it will be random. I am supposed to rate my flashes as mild, moderate or severe...none are mild and I am a bit sporatic...the day counts from when I get up in the morning, until I get up the next morning. Tues was 9, Wed. was 4 and yesterday was 8. It's all very interesting and very detailed. I'll be back as I progress thru the 18 weeks

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Friday, December 21, 2007 - 8:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
I am glad they are finally doing studies on these things in the TWENTY-FIRST century. When I started researching this stuff in the late 20th century I was just astounded that there was so little information, when women have been going through menopause forever (or perhaps not; perhaps in earlier centuries they died before reaching menopause).

At the time it struck me that perhaps the reason was that it did not happen to men and therefore it was not particularly important.

Yesitsme
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08-24-2004

Friday, January 18, 2008 - 6:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yesitsme a private message Print Post    
OK, need to see if I am crazy here. I am in that peri-stage and have noticed quite a few changes in myself like hormonal migraines. On Christmas Day I all of a sudden developed lower back pain. I treated with a heating pad, but didn't get rid of it. The pain in the next few weeks was weird...it almost seemed to jump around. Then a couple of weeks ago I woke up with back spasms. Went to a chiropractor for the first time, and between that and muscle relaxers got the back spasms to stop, but the pain continued. The pain itself and its location would shift a bit. Then early this week I started my period (first one since October) and the back pain goes away completely. Now I am totally fine with no residual pain. So, was it coincidence or could they be related? Anyone else experience it and if so, did you find anything that treated or, even better, prevented it?

Beekindpleez
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07-18-2006

Friday, January 18, 2008 - 8:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beekindpleez a private message Print Post    
I've experienced similar things, Yes. Before I completely stopped, I also went for periods of months without, then experienced all sorts of weird pain in weird places, then, bam, got another period.

It's been over a year since I have had one now, so while I have to attack chin hair every day, I no longer experience such very odd pains.

And the up and down of emotions seems to have evened out, too. (which pleases DH)

Overall, I'm enjoying the post stage quite a bit expecially when compared to how odd and unpredictable the peri stage was.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Saturday, January 19, 2008 - 1:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Negative here, Yesitsme.

Yesitsme
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08-24-2004

Monday, January 21, 2008 - 3:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yesitsme a private message Print Post    
Thanks you guys. I will ask my nurse practitioner at my physical in March. And I will keep an eye on things until then.

I'm actually thrilled to skip periods. I was having two a month for a while and that was miserable!