The Old Folks Home

[CapricornFarm]

Cap, that is darling. I wish our winters here were mild enough that I could pull something like that off with my birds.

@trumpeting_angel, when I was working clinical, the nurse I worked with and I were both suffering from hot flashes. We kept a bottle of Black Cohosh in the bottom drawer of our desk and passed it back and forth during our shift. It does work, or at least it did for me until they discovered that I was 'estrogen sensitive' and the low dose hormone therapy they put me on OD'd me on estrogen. The only cure was to go cold turkey. It wasn't fun. I was driving back and forth to work and sometimes couldn't remember how I got there. It's not getting old it's being a woman and getting old.

I went to have a portrait done at one of those photo shops in Walmart and the photographer kept wanting to retake my picture using different camera filters. When I asked her what was going on she showed me my proofs and said she couldn't understand why my face and neck were coming out so red. I just laughed and told her she had just captured a hot flash on film. The next time I went to the doctor I showed him the pictures. No more arguing with me about the severity of my hot flashes.

That was back in 2005. I'm still having hot flashes 14 years later.

Thanks Micro, I think it will be pretty snug for them. I do need to install ventilation. We do get snow and cold, but at least the walls are double thickness and the shutters cover two of the windows. I think they will be fine.

 

[trumpeting_angel]

It is adorable! I searched around for one of those before I had a coop. I figured I’d put HW cloth over the windows for ventilation. But they turned out to be too small and venting with the windows would have been too cold. But they look so cute!

Micro, aren’t we lucky to feel hot in the winter? Yeah. Me neither. I hope the black cohosh helps. No response so far. I’ve been taking it a week or 10 days. I bought a different brand, made only from the roots. I’ll try that.

My doctor said I could also try adding more soy to my diet. but one intervention at a time, so I know what’s working!

 

[microchick]

It is adorable! I searched around for one of those before I had a coop. I figured I’d put HW cloth over the windows for ventilation. But they turned out to be too small and venting with the windows would have been too cold. But they look so cute!

Micro, aren’t we lucky to feel hot in the winter? Yeah. Me neither. I hope the black cohosh helps. No response so far. I’ve been taking it a week or 10 days. I bought a different brand, made only from the roots. I’ll try that.

My doctor said I could also try adding more soy to my diet. but one intervention at a time, so I know what’s working!

You might want to try estroven or one of the other vitamin/herbal supplements also at some point. I didn't find eating estrogen rich foods like sweet potatoes to be much help. As for always feeling warm, I used to sleep with a fan on me even in winter and still can't stand to sleep without having my arms and neck uncovered. Some things never change.

Morning all old folk and not so old folk. Bright sunny and chilly here in beautiful north central-ish Missouri. We had always been told that our county was north eastern MO but recently discovered that it was now being categorized as 'north central'. Gee, nobody asked me before changing it...

 

[drumstick diva]

When I went through menopause, I had COLD flashes. No joke. I told my doctor and he acted non phased .

 

[perchie.girl]

Hey my jar lids all sealed... all twenty seven of them. Three half pints and twenty four quarter pints... My kitchen looks like something out of Dr Seuss.



deb

 

[bruceha2000]

That was back in 2005. I'm still having hot flashes 14 years later.

Can't like that for you or @trumpeting_angel!

My kitchen looks like something out of Dr Seuss.

Oh the places you'll go! Maybe we need pictures.

 

[ronott1]

Hey my jar lids all sealed... all twenty seven of them. Three half pints and twenty four quarter pints... My kitchen looks like something out of Dr Seuss.



deb

Nice Job!

 

[perchie.girl]

I started menopause around fifty years old.... Not really hot flashes but dang I sure did sleep alot. Then i had cancer and a Full historectomy... at sixty I started having major hot flashes. Took about half a year.... Then they were gone.

so my guess 14-15 years or more is the norm? Mom and grandma had hysterectomies when they were in their thirties... So family experience couldnt help me there.

deb

 

[microchick]

I used to tell my husband that every man should experience hot flashes. It's easy to do, just take a dose of OTC Niacin that doesn't say 'non flushing' on the label.

He did one day and had 24 hours of non stop hot flashes. He was miserable. I think my response was 'welcome to being a woman in menopause'. Needless to say he didn't want niacin any more for cholesterol control.

Perchie-that would have been heartbreaking if all 27 of those jars hadn't sealed.

I spent the morning outside winterizing the coop....fun....not.

 

[drumstick diva]

I bet the puppies didn't even help you.