Menopause Matters Forum
Menopause Discussion => All things menopause => Topic started by: edelweiss on May 11, 2017, 04:44:12 PM
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Hello ladies, Emma posted this on the boards and I wonder if anyone did the interview? xxx
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Nope.
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Wouldn't really want everyone who knows me to know how bad I am actually feeling, if there was no name or photo then would have seriously thought about it, shame the magic that worked for Carol doesn't work that quick for all of us suffering like she did :'(
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Exactly - same here Dee. Shame isn't it? xxx
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Same for me ladies. I can't share a lot of my symptoms in my daily life with people x
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Edelweiss it is a shame, feel like I am just existing somedays this meno is so unfair :'(
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I don't think the guy would have wanted my story. They'd have to print it in an extra supplement....... :o
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Oh Tempest darling - I know. It's just not fair.
He sounded pretty horrified when I told him my symptoms. I didn't give my real name. I was so torn though as I wanted to represent us all, and yet I didn't want to be 'outed' to people who don't know the half of it.
Shall we all write a joint letter to Cathy Abernathy? What would we want to happen? xxx
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Do we actually beleive what she said.....don't forget she is getting paid for this....
Perhaps I haven't mentioned I really don't like her one little bit.
I take all these Z list celebrity stories with a very large pinch of salt.
As for the Sun newspaper......wouldn't even wrap my chips in it never mind have my name in it. The term Newspaper is a bit of a stretch of the imagination anyway.
Mrs Brown.
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Oh, gosh! Where should we start?!? I think for me the most alarming thing has been that even the most seasoned professionals I have seen did not acknowledge the huge emotional impact that menopause has on women. It's ALL about treating vasomotor symptoms. Aaaaargh!!
Things I have had said to me are 'if your vasomotor symptoms were under control, your mood would be better'. Nope!!!! Hot flushes are NOT the trigger - if it was dealing with copious sweating and that was the only symptom, I don't think many of us would be on this forum. And, 'if your nights sweats were under control, you could share a bed with your husband and intimacy would return'. You. Have. To. Be. Sh##ting . Me.....!!!! >:( >:(
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Hello Mrs Brown, I see your point. I hope you are doing well today. xxx
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Tempest - yes it would be like exams at school 'can I have supplementary sheets please?'
Oh dear Tempest you know I'm there with you in spirit. Every word you say is so true.
Yes if only it were just sweats you're right most of us wouldn't be here on the forum.
Thinking of you so much. Louise seems a very understanding and dedicated doctor.
Intimacy? As you say You. Have. To. Be. Sh##ting . Me.....!!!! ;D But the hardest thing is I really want to want to. xxx
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I was going to say I wouldn't put copies of the media under my chickens to roost over at night :-X ...... and celebrities can get almost instant treatments etc. etc. etc. ........... it's good that meno problems are more 'out there' however .....
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Here it is https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/3540478/menopause-the-change-highs-and-lows-carol-vorderman-ulrika-jonsson/ xxx
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Did I read right that Ulrika got tailor-made hrt according to her blood levels ?
I get resentful of celebs when they boast things with no explanation. That Sarai (sp?) off Loose Women gave an emotional speech how she doesn't want sex etc and I followed her closely for updates, then she went in Celebrity big Brother claiming she's 'cured' and gagging for sex. Well 'hello!' You now owe us a frigging explanation exactly what the cure is !!!
I like Ruth Langsford but if she boasts once more 'this is all my own hair' I'll swing for her, it leaves people like me who meno has destroyed the hair feeling even worse !
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Yes agreed Annie and CLKD. And my hat's off to these brave women who were willing to be interviewed and photographed, I couldn't have done it as much as I want people and medics to acknowledge the problems that can't be fixed.
Who knows about Ulrika but it sounds like Marion Gluck style stuff. Good luck to her anyway and Carol. Every woman deserves a break from this cr*p. xxx
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One of those women lives about 4 miles from me !
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looks far too simplistic for my liking, doesn't tell it like it really is for many women. And, of course, the women represented have clearly had professional styling and make up for the photos.
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looks far too simplistic for my liking, doesn't tell it like it really is for many women. And, of course, the women represented have clearly had professional styling and make up for the photos.
I sometimes wonder if they are 'real' women so I looked up one of them on Facebook and she's posting all about her interview but strangely she says it was about joys of ageing...not the menopause?! It appears she gives quite a lot of interviews and does 'filming'.
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Well ladies I will be out there soon well and truly telling all about the horrors of VA , plus photos of me and my dogs.
We HAVE to start talking about menopause and especially VA , as my life has changed so much because of it , and not for the better.
I am not at all embarrassed, to me it's just another body part that has gone wrong / suffering due to menopause the last taboo.
BTW not a tabloid newspaper / magazine.
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Maryjane - wow well done and THANK YOU so much!!!!!! :-*
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Just read the article, thanks for posting as not a paper I ever read. However, my mum suffered terribly with anxiety & depression when I was around 4 years old. She had me late in life, which may well have kick started her meno journey. Although I was aware of certain things about her at that time, like not being able to take me to school, it wasn't until I was in my mid teens that she told me. I suspect VA was also a problem as she was always searching for savlon for her sore bits.
We are lucky we have this forum & can discuss many of these issues. I often hope that the next generation of women will be so much better informed about the menopause. They are even advertising things like vagisan on tv now. Mind you they've probably been advertising similar things in the US for years, they seem to advertise everything! ;)