The Old Folks Home

[ronott1]

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.

Niacin flush is a bit different? Do menopause hot flashes come with very bad itching too?

 

[drumstick diva]

No itching for me but, that maybe it doesn't come with cold flashes.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I went through mental pause in 85 due to bilateral hysterectomy to keep me alive
25 and crying over mikey on life cereal boxes .. Estroven and me black helicopters boy was that a kick Not ... hot flashes mood swings all gone in my 59th year and bonus buy google assistant is not living in my home either 1 hour on the phone to dish

 

[trumpeting_angel]

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

Interesting. Technically the issue in menopause is the loss of the body’s ability to regulate temperature, so cold flashes could fit that nicely.

now anyone with medical training should feel free to contradict me. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing!

 

[Cynthia12]

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

Glad I had a hysterectomy when I did because of the misery I was going through. My mother and a Sister both got uterine cancer. This was after I had my surgery. Whew, don't have to worry about that one.

 

[Cynthia12]

. I had fun back in the day helping this become a thing. Now, pink has pretty much taken over the month for awareness. Breast cancer. Had my yearly mamo last week. Because it is October...got to pick out a pink fingernail polish.

 

[trumpeting_angel]

My phone upgraded yesterday and it’s driving me nuts. I couldn’t get the Map app to work because I “wasn’t connected to the internet.” Well, I’m driving! My internet is at
home. The darn thing worked before. It showed a map but wouldn’t give directions. I had to pull over several times to
Mess with the map.

A dozen other things have changed. if I wanted this much change, I would have gotten a new phone! Ok, no
More complaints. Please forgive typos and weird formatting!

 

[microchick]

I remember reading somewhere about the hormonal imbalances playing merry you know what with the hypothalamus causing the body's temperature control to go haywire resulting in hot flashes.

Alright ladies, after me....I enjoy being a girl....!

We hauled ourselves out to the pasture today and dropped the remaining cross fencing barbed wire down from the posts. Our property is 1000 by about a quarter mile in depth and had cross fencing throughout the pastures. When we decided that we weren't going to run livestock, and in order to dissuade our Amish neighbors from coming to us and asking to rent out our pasture, we figured the only way to get that message across was by tearing out all the fencing with the exception of the parameter fencing. After 10 years this month, we got the last of the cross fencing broken down.

Now all DH has to do is drag the barbed wire down to the nearest ravine where it will become erosion control.

It barely got to 47 outside today. Just gray and fall like. I took my camera along to take some foliage pics and discovered that....there isn't any...foliage that is. 2 out of 3 trees have dropped their leaves. 2 are still green and one has a little color to it but not enough to waste the space on my camera's card.

Very disappointing.

 

[drumstick diva]

I know the feeling Micro, like being all dressed up and nowhere to go. I liked being dressed up but many years ago, was too scared to go out.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Well hey there old folks watched PBS for awhile ya got love modern technology they wanted me to activate a new remote with google assistant and I said no so now I have no music channels get call them tomorrow again so why does my blood pressure go up ?
I am going to bed now goodnight all hope to see you back tomorrow also