Menopause Matters Forum
Menopause Discussion => All things menopause => Topic started by: 20032003 on July 13, 2015, 10:08:45 AM
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Age of menopause I understand is hereditary, but what about specific symptoms? I don't, unfortunately, talk to my mom about stuff like this. We never have. But there have been little things that I've been putting together. Could, for instance, stomach/digestive issues be hereditary? My mom has always been gassy (I don't have to ask her to know... ;) ). When I brought up the other day that I might have become sensitive to lactose, she said that for a while she was not able to eat anything like pancakes or waffles because she would get terrible diarreah. So either the milk or the gluten maybe? A few years back she switched from regular brewed coffee to instant coffee, because the coffee gave her a stomach ache. She loves fresh strawberries, but cannot eat many before she gets a stomach upset.
For years and years she suffered terrible migraines (she spent many weekends in a cool dark bedroom...), but she doesn't have those anymore. I have had what I've considered "migraine light". Nothing like what my mom went through, but nagging headaches, fatigue and some vision problems. That has stopped now.
I see similarities....
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Yep, me too 20032003! Digestive issues and headaches/migraines are a definitely family trait - four generations and counting! Also fibroids and breast lumps (mum and me, hopefully my DD's wont suffer but looking at how things are going, who knows!)
S x
Interesting...
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I think there are heredity factors for many ailments but just because your mum suffered with certain meno symptoms doesn't mean you will. I am one of 3 girls and whilst my meno has followed the same pattern as my mother my sisters have not suffered the same fate. My mother had a premature meno and didn't tell me until I was diagnosed!!!!!
I certainly have the nasty headaches as one of my many meno symptoms but my mother didn't get headaches - I just remember her being extremely tetchy, short tempered and complaining about being hot all the time. She didn't have HRT so she has shrunk by at least 4 inches!. DG x
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I wish my mum was here to ask. But I remember seeing in her cupboard pills for sleeping and pills for anxiety when she would have been mid 50's. She never ever discussed personal stuff but I know she never got a hot flush as she was allways cold.
She suffered most of her life with migraine which I remember had gone in her 50's, I too am a migraine sufferer, though not like hers.
She suffered lots of bloating and tummy stuff. I too have just given up tea as I felt it was giving me stomach ache, I just have hot water now.
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My mother had hot flushes.....tick
Panic attacks........................tick
Anxiety................................tick.
I've have had all of the above.
But so do a lot of menopausal women.
My mother never sought any help. She did say the doctor once gave her a big green pill but it made her sick so she never took any more. ::)
She never had HRT and has shrunk so very much. She does not have a dowagers hump though. At nearly 93 she is a bit of a miracle to be honest.
Honeyb
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