Comments on: Phantom Period

By: Judy Haney

Judy Haney — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:04:34 +0000

Robin,
I’ve been inundated with visitors from California staying with us for the CWS and watching a grandchild too so haven’t had a lot of spare time to read your blog until today. I like the way you use humor to reach people and how the information about meno ( as I call it) is well researched and helps make it less intimidating. I too had my unit yanked ( as I called my hysterectomy) and had real problems with regulating the HRT afterwards. I took hormones for several years until “the Study” came out . At that point I told my doctor I wanted to stop, but she said keep on taking it because “the Study” wasn’t definitive and the plusses equaled more than the minuses. When the next, even bigger, study came out ,I just told her I was quitting. Period. She didn’t hassle me at all at that point. It amazed me though how I had to go through the hot flashes and night sweats all over again. Things are fine now and it really wasn’t that bad. I count my blessings to not have to go through monthly periods anymore!
The blog is great.
I like the links…that’s one of the things that makes a good blog, in my opinion.
Judy H

By: Carol

Carol — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:34:00 +0000

I don’t miss my period at all! I didn’t have a hysterectomy. I was perimenopausal when I ended up with breast cancer and a cyst on my ovary. My gyno took out my ovaries because sometimes breast cancer and ovarian cancer are connected – it was just a precaution. So between the chemo and then the loss of the ovaries, I never had a period again. Yay! I donated all my sanitary napkins and tampons to the girls in my office. And when the younger co-workers tell me they think they are starting menopause, I tell them that’s wonderful. I seem to be doing all right with menopause. The night sweats have subsided and all I am left with is an occasional hot flash. The hot flashes are more frequent when I drink red wine. And I love red wine!

By: Gloria

Gloria — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:25:41 +0000

Hit me if you want but I never hated “my period”. I loved to curl up with a good book and relax. No pain – for me that is. My husband said if menopause was anything like the week before my period he was going to shoot himself.