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Tips for Managing Perimenopause
First let me explain my system.
Before I ever decided to make this website I purchased almost
all my "personal" products (and a lot of other stuff!) from
Drugstore.com. I love it. Why?
- Anonymity. I live in a
small town and there are definitely things that I don’t want
to go into our local drugstore and buy.
- Free shipping if you spend 49 bucks on eligible
products. What could be better than that?
- They let you keep your own list of favorites. When you
need something, up pops your list. You check the items you
need and away you go.
- Lastly, they give you back 5 percent of almost
everything you buy. Every few months they send you an
email with the drugstore.com dollars amount you’ve
accrued, and you can go on the website and spend your
savings. What a deal.
That’s why most of the products I recommend
are offered through Drugstore.com. I use it. I like it. I
think you will too.
How to Manage the
Symptoms of Perimenopause and
Take Control of Your Life
Aren’t we the lucky generation? At the first sign of hot
flashes, our mothers made a beeline to the OB/GYN and started on
Hormone Replacement Therapy. No hot flashes, no night
sweats and none of the other troublesome little symptoms that
accompany perimenopause. Unfortunately, we now know that
HRT isn’t really all that great for a lot of reasons that I
won’t go into here. So, how does the Baby Boomer
generation cope with perimenopause? Here are a few things
I’ve found that help make perimenopause more bearable.
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Always wear layers. You’ll find
that your body has lost its ability to regulate temperature.
If you wear a lot of clothes you will almost certainly
become overheated and stay that way all day long. By wearing
layers, you can regulate your own temperature. If you
feel yourself getting overheated, immediately remove your
jacket. Still getting warm, take off your sweater.
Getting cool, put the sweater back on. You get the idea.
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Always have a good book handy.
You will find that you often wake up in the middle of the
night and the best way to fall back to sleep is reading a
good book. Even if you don’t get back to sleep, it is
a great way to make the night go by faster.
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Take vitamins every day,
especially calcium. Without Hormone Replacement
Therapy you require at least 1500 mg. daily to prevent
osteoporosis.
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Consume mass quantities of soy.
Did you know that soy isoflavones are plant based estrogens
(phytoestrogens)? Not only do isoflavones give us back
some of the estrogen we are rapidly losing, but they also
have been shown to prevent heart disease, lower cholesterol
and even prevent some cancers. I can’t attest to any
of the other benefits, but I was miserable for the first
couple years of perimenopause. Hot flashes, night sweats,
insomnia. The whole nine yards. Cranky to beat
he**. I did some research and came across a
concentrated soy product named “Revival®
Doctor-Formulated Soy Protein.” I started taking
it a few years ago and it has definitely lessened my
symptoms appreciably. Plus, I really feel like I’m
doing something good for myself. I order the
unsweetened “Vanilla Pleasure” flavor and then add it to
plain Silk® organic
Soymilk. The Revival has 20 grams of
soy protein, 160 mg isoflavones and 500 mg calcium and the
Silk Soymilk, 7 grams soy protein, 20 to 35 mg isoflavones
and 300 mg calcium, plus all kinds of other vitamins.
One vanilla shake and I’ve started the day with a huge jolt
of natural estrogen and over half of my daily allowance of
calcium. It’s a win-win.
Get more information on Revival® here.
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Find a good dermatologist.
I suffered from cystic acne when I was a teenager and I had
a major outbreak again when I started perimenopause.
I’m told it is actually quite common, in fact, that is how
they discovered that Retin-A helped make wrinkles less
noticeable. It was all of us perimenopausal women with bad
zits! So that’s the good news. Even if you do break-out, you
have a great excuse to use Retin-A.
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