One Woman's Thoughts: July 2009

Thursday, July 9, 2009

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It's the middle of the night my love, and I find myself lying in bed hurting for your touch, hurting to feel you, hurting to be with you. You have become a part of the essense of who I am. It's like being a tree with no leaves, a bird with no wings, or a heart with no beat. I cannot be complete without you.

Menopause Tips

I have found that while going through the change there are many of us suffering from symptoms in silence. And I don't mean the obvious things. So I would like to share with you things about menopause I have learned on my journey and while asking frank questions of others.

So this weeks tip 11/21/08: If you have a problem with your "headlights" always showing through your clothes and would like to not always appear cold....I have found these wonderful little pads you slide into your bra that hide the problem. I got mine from QVC.com. They look like little bra cups. You just slip them into your bra and they instantly smooth out the probelm and help you to "fill out" a poor fitting bra! The great part is you don't even know they are there and they don't slide out!

Week 11/25/08: Sometimes for no reason you will find that soap, lubricant, or your sanitary products can iritate our most sensative area. Do not be alarmed. Sometimes the skin in that most delicate area can become very sensative to man made chemicals. If this happens, switch to a natural olive oil based soap, cotton undies, and when "that" time comes use all cotton "rags." (Bar rags that you can purchase at your local "mart" store work best - very absorbant) This sensation won't last very long, and will come and go for no reason. So just get back to natural living and your body and skin will balance out the issue on it's own.

Week of 12/20/08: Hot Flashes - One of life's great pleasures is being able to self combust at a moments notice. I have found incoporating soy into my diet helped alot with the number of spontaneous combustion moments I was having. For the times that nothing else helps - I have found these neat little wraps for your neck. You soak them in water for a few hours, they swell up, and then you tie them around your neck to help keep you cool. They stay cold for about 4 to 5 hours, and then all you do is re-soak them for about 30 minutes and they are good to go again. I got mine on QVC, but I am sure any sporting goods store will have them.

Week of 12/30/08: Hairy Chin Syndrome - I have found this great thing called a "Tweezie." It works wonderful for chin hair. Sometimes I will check myself in the morning for stray chin hairs, find none, but then come home and find a two inch strand of chin hair. I wonder - did it just bust out all at once that length, or am I going blind. With the "Tweezie" you can carry it in your purse so that if you do have a hair emergency during the day, you can take care of it. I don't recommend using this for the all important mustache hair, as it is to rough on that skin. For that hair I use an electric razor. Just a quick hit a few times a week leave you looking more like your young self, and less like the Frito Bandito. Final note: Eye brows are best left to the professionals that know how to shape them. You don't need to always look "scared" at our age.

01/16/09 - Heavy Bleeding - Every now and again you will get a period that is very heavy (soaking a pad or tampon in an hour or two). After checking with your doctor to make sure there is no underlying medical cause - other than old age - I find using a poise pad or a depends a life saver to keep your bleeding from spotting your trousers. I always keep some in my purse because you never know when spotting will turn into a waterfall. But armed with the poise pads or depends, will keep your private issue private.

02/26/09 - Emotional Re-birthing. Going through these changes physically can and will make old unresolved emotional issues come back to be dealt with. For no reason you will be just zooming along one day, and and unresolved conflict that you had with your Mom, sister, Dad, really anyone that was in your life, will come back up and insist on being dealt with. Now not every one of this issues will be epic. Some can be dealt with with a phone call or lunch. But other will require some journaling, some couseling by a friend or trained professional. Don't be afraid to face these issues. I used to refer to the little (sometimes big) shelf in my closet. Every now and again the shelve gets overloaded, and would come crashing down, boxes opening and spilling onto the floor in a big mess. As a great therapist once asked me....did I want to just fix the shelf, or spend some time emptying out the boxes that caused the collapse. Only you can decide which to do, but I promise you, for each box you empty, your life becomes more in balance. So go and empty out those boxes. If you don't, the shelf will break and you will have to start to pick up the mess anyway.

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