menopause, anyone?

[mimitabby]

>>While menopause is a very real thing, it is not a disease, and I refuse to blame it on any of my *issues*.<<


It's not a disease, so why should we have to take medication for it?


Did generations of women before Premarin just suffer through? Did they do other things instead? Did they just become stereotypical cranky mothers or what?

I wish I knew more from a historical perspective.

Karen

Welll, Karen, historically, few women lived long enough to reach menopause!
that's the rub. When the average life expectancy of a woman in 1929 was 49(edit; this was black american females but in 1900, this was the average for all american women, black and white
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr53/nvsr53_06.pdf
) years, that means most women never made it to age 55!

I like your idea though; what evolutionary reasons would women have for having hot flashes?

I read an ethnography about the small africans called Bushmen; the women DO NOT have hotflashes. Perhaps if we lived more naturally we wouldn't either?

I agree with you about not medicating, but then i opted for natural childbirth too.