Round Two!

2006-08-22T15:34:00.000-07:00

Had you know idea that today was going to pretty much be like the other?

Yes, I asked myself this. I was actually feeling pretty good. Took my bottle of herbal get-a-grip with me to work and I was on my way. Boy, I was going to be great. This was going to work and I was going to zip right through this. It was going to be smooth ride now, I got my herbies.

Then the second thought, I'll do a little research on that there herbie (black cohosh) and see what is says.

Oh this can't be good. First of all, I'm a risk for breast cancer due to an minor health issue I had a few years back, so even the discussion of future hormone therapy was not attractive to my dr or myself.

Now I'm reading, this herb can attack the liver and cause a malfunction leading to hepatitis. OH JOY!!! I think we hit a bump in the road, a big bump.

Now relax, think it through, gotta be an alternate action plan here.....see my dr was not in the other day when I went, so the sub I had, perhaps she didn't in my chart where my history labeled me as a risk to such things because....

Hmm, where is that alternate plan........a trip to the health food store. Yep, that's it.

I searched every aisle, every menopausal madness creation there was, reading every bottle, every label, checking for how many did NOT have that risky ingredient................AH HA! Found one! "Women's Liberty!"

Ok, ok, so it's tea.....still.....help is help no matter what form it comes in, right! And what's this....an under-the-tongue-dissolve-as-you-go pill as well that help alleviate the hot flashes, irritability (hubby will love this) and... all that stuff. Ok, I'll take that too.

I'm set. Got my herbies, now I can have lunch and feel at ease right? Well, you'd think so. But honestly, guess we'll just have to see how this all pans out. Tonight another night, tomorrow another day.

I have fun projects to do, a keyboard to learn, a crochet project to finish, reading to do, an house to organize and loving grandkids to spend time with.

I don't have time for a journey with lots of bumps in the road. I've always driven fast, maybe if I do just that, I won't feel the bumps.......LOL!

I've got a life to live and I don't plan on stopping any time soon, so....forward ho!!

In the Beginning...

2006-08-22T15:16:00.000-07:00

Hold onto your seats and prepare for a bumpy ride....at least that is what I think at this point. (and this is only the beginning)

If Eve only knew what she was getting us women into when she ate that doggone apple!

First your body temp rises without provication. Then you're needing to wear a sweater cause you're so cold. But oh well, maybe that is just because you work in an AC office or the AC in your home is set low, well, high, well.....it's set to where it comes on when you are not ready for it to come on.

Then one day....while relaxing in the evening, after work, you start getting chills, then body aches...."oh my gosh!" I must be coming down with the flu! I can't be sick, I don't have time to be sick! Ok, here comes the stress.

That night, you wake up at a God awful time of the morning, before the alarm, sweating like a duck (I don't like pigs) and you wonder what that is all about.

Maybe hubby shut off the AC auto and it just needs to be turned on.

That ain't it!

After a week of this, you begin to wonder and become Dr....Research. Researching every type of virus, disease and oh yes.....age related transitional disease that you can think of. When it comes right down to it, you symptoms could be related to anyone of several diseases, but when you weigh the majority of yes' with your age.......bottom line........it's gotta be time for the journey.

So you go to the dr, tell her/him all the complaints you have about how crummy you feel; this hurts, this aches, I feel hot, I'm getting chills, night sweats, blahblahblah.....and then she says it........."considering your age, I tend to believe you are going through...meno......menap......menopause" (it wasn't hard for her to say it, it was hard for me to print it). Try this first and lets see how this works.

Oh goodie, an herbal remedy, versus hormonal adjustment shots or whatever.

But she says, we'll draw blood just to rule out and be sure we didn't overlook something.

No biggie, a visit to the lab, prick, bandage and I'm outta there. Happy go lucky that I got answers. Not that I'm happy to say that I'm on this challenging journey, but I'm always happy with answers versus feeling crummy and the diagnosis being unknown.

So the journey begins......I have no idea what's in store, hopefully the ride won't be too rough and moreso insightful or awakening, or something real positive like that. We'll see.

And we'll see how my loving husband and my one child left at home can withstand the ride with me.

The Menopausal Journey

Round Two!

In the Beginning...