DEEP Thoughts on menopause.

Currently I am going through reverse adolescence, that is menopause. Usually this is not something that women run around screaming at the top of their lungs. It's more likely that we all go through it rather quietly. Everyone around us knows before we do, because they see all the changes that are going on with us before we see it ourselves.

And you know what? I don't feel like being quiet about going through menopause. For one thing it's not a disease. It is the most difficult time in a woman's life, and it's a time of major change and even stress.

Even social diseases have become more of a mainstream topic nowadays with pharmaceutical companies mass marketing pills for people to take. You know the advertisements where the young good looking frisky couple are walking down a beach hand in hand, saying that his social disease doesn't bother their relationship because he takes some drug to alleviate the symptoms.

How does this all tie in with menopause ? Because social diseases do not carry the shame and horror they used to carry. Years ago when people contracted a social disease they had to call all their sexual partners and then re-think their actions and not have sex for awhile until the symptoms cleared up.

Becoming a menopausal woman carries a certain shame in today's society.
Essentially with social diseases becoming an okay thing in society then why can't older women become a welcome part of life. When a woman ages and loses her beauty, and she gains weight, and her hair turns gray, why is it that society as a whole doesn't notice that woman anymore? When a woman reaches that menopausal age she should be celebrated for all she has accomplished. Men should lust after her, because she has lived life and knows how to do things that younger women don't know how to do. Hint Hint!

A menopausal woman should be celebrated in our society and lifted up to feel like she is million bucks! She gave birth to children that are becoming or have become terrific people. She has contributed to society by working , making money and creating a life. And people should be informed of this life change that happens to every woman. You mean to tell me that someone out there has not figured out a way to make millions of dollars from some pill or health aid for women to help them with menopause?

More recently older women have been more in the spotlight, and are getting more roles in movies. But that is because women such as Demi Moore and even Helena Christensen have done something about it. You could say they are aging gracefully, but wouldn't all of us age gracefully with millions of dollars to spend on every surgery, diet guru, and health aid available for an aging woman? I wouldn't mind running around with someone half my age if I could afford to buy myself a great face lift, major hair extensions, and have a ton of people yell accolades at me like , "We love you." "Your last movie was great!"

When I went to my family doctor years ago with symptoms of menopause, that I found out later were symptoms of peri menopause, he did nothing to help me. Even my gynecologist really has not helped, all she did was prescribe pills. Other women know something about menopause, but they just warn you about terrible things that could happen if you take that pill and how they felt during the entire thing.

I don't want other women warning me about how I could die from not taking a slew of vitamins and working out every day. The Internet has provided a slew of information about menopause. But, most of that information is just a re-working of information from other websites. And some of the information is not correct. It just seems like everybody has decided to get a website today and many of those websites are very poorly done.

So what does a hot flashing, hair thinning, stomach bulging woman do about menopause?

Me personally, I'm not going quietly. I'm not going to start going to bars and picking up men half my age either. No, I'm going to what society won't do for us women. I am going to take care of myself, by eating healthy foods, and working out, and all of that. But, I am going to respect myself. I am going to hold my head high with the knowledge that I am a smart, wonderful person. And I will not let this menopuase thing get the best of me. And that's what all women should do. Feel respect for themselves because they have reached a milestone not a death.

This can be the best time of our lives!