Survive Menopause Without Losing Your Mind
First let me say that I am fifty years old and have been going through menopause since I was forty-two. My doctors have said that menopause can last as long as fifteen years. You can either laugh or cry and at times you will do both.
Instructions
1. The first thing you need to know about menopause is it is no laughing matter. I have had hot flashes at work, in my car, at funerals, in church and of course in the middle of an intimate moment with my husband. The worst ones can make you feel like a marshmallow in a girl scout camp. At best you will just look like you just swallowed a very hot pepper and everyone will ask you what's wrong. I am fortunate to work in an environment with a walk in refrigerator. I haven't managed to melt anything important yet. Ha! If you do not have such a luxury try sticking your face into your refrigerator or applying a cold cloth. This will really help.
2. Be sure you have plenty of clean pajamas for when the night sweats or as I like to call them "the night floods" hit. You will wake up hot(see hot flashes above) and dripping. You will naturally kick off and take off everything you can get your hands on and fall back to sleep only to wake up freezing a half hour later. Oh yeah your spouse will learn real fast that you are not stripping to get intimate with him. The snarling and clenched teeth will give it away.
3. Avoid too much caffeine as this can irritate your nerves, as if they needed any help. Take a deep breath and count to ten when you feel like exploding and then go ahead and explode, because you will anyway.
You can apologize later. When you feel like crying as you will about fifty times a day just let the tears pour. Oh yes people will look at you funny but again the snarling and clenched teeth will discourage them. All in all just take it one day at a time and know that you will get through it eventually.
4. This last step is for the few lucky women who do not experience menopause symptoms and just slide right through it. Lie, lie ,lie to the rest of us or take your chances. It will not be pretty!
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