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Health After Menopause: What Every Woman Needs To Know

There's a lot of focus presently on menopause (thank goodness!) but it's easy to forget, amongst all the chatter, that menopause in itself is a marker, rather than a period of time and there's a whole phase of our lives that comes after that last period. Unlike perimenopause, which can last up to ten years, menopause marks the day that you haven't had a period for 12 months consecutively - and after that day, you are officially 'post-menopause'. But while there is a lot of information about perimenopause symptoms and treatment, there's not the same discussion around post-menopause. And let's remember, that you don't necessarily need to be in your late 50s and 60s to be postmenopausal; women who…

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 Solving the mysteries of menopause, one conversation at a time

The menopause journey brings a menu of seemingly unrelated symptoms that range from minor annoyances such as occasional hot flashes to debilitating, life-altering physical and mental turmoil that can last years, end marriages and careers, and lead to long-term chronic disease. Most women are somewhere in the middle, yet it remains a medical mystery to almost all.

 Supporting Postmenopausal Health

Menopause affects half of the world’s population, yet there remains a lot of uncertainty and misinformation about it. This is especially true for postmenopause, the period following menopause. Thankfully, recent published research provides us with new insights into how the body changes and on supporting postmenopausal health.

Articles of Interest

Breast cancer prevention drug approved for post-menopausal women in the UK – here’s how it works

A drug that can halve the risk of developing breast cancer in post-menopausal women has been approved for use in the UK. This drug, called anastrozole, could benefit an estimated 289,000 women in the UK who are at increased risk of breast cancer. Anastrozole was already approved for use in the UK as a breast cancer treatment. It belongs to a group of drugs called aromatase inhibitors that were first developed to treat breast cancer in women who had undergone menopause. The key to anaztrozole’s success both in treating and preventing breast cancer, is due to its effects on the body’s oestrogen levels.

Life After Menopause

As soon as you’ve officially hit menopause, you jump right into postmenopause. You’re in this stage for the rest of your life, as you’ll no longer get a menstrual cycle. During this stage, you’re at risk for diseases like osteoporosis, due to the decline in your hormones.

Living Your Best Life After Menopause

From common concerns about weight gain to changes in bone health and sexuality, OB/GYN, Susan Lasch, MD, shares how to live your healthiest life after menopause. This insightful discussion covers the latest research and provides actionable strategies to thrive in this new chapter of life.

Post Menopause

1 year with no periods. If you’re officially post menopausal but still having some unwanted symptoms, you’re in the right place. If your periods are long gone, but you’re wondering why you’re not feeling great now you’re ‘out the other side’, you may still have some hormone imbalances.

Post-menopausal bleeding: Why does it happen and what should you do?

In fact, an estimated 10% of women over 55 experience postmenopausal bleeding (PMB).3 So just when you think that’s the end of your menstruating days as you have known them suddenly you are bleeding again - so what’s going on and why?

Postmenopausal syndrome

Menopause is one of the most significant events in a woman's life and brings in a number of physiological changes that affect the life of a woman permanently. There have been a lot of speculations about the symptoms that appear before, during and after the onset of menopause. These symptoms constitute the postmenopausal syndrome; they are impairing to a great extent to the woman and management of these symptoms has become an important field of research lately.

Sex After Menopause? For Many Women, It’s (Much) Better

Menopause has always been painted as the end of your sexual era, the moment when your vagina becomes a dried-up shell of its former self. But in reality, it can be a profoundly liberating period of sexual self-determination.

Staying healthy in postmenopausal life

Menopause specialist Dr Clare Spencer explains how your postmenopausal body might continue to change as your hormone levels adjust to a new normal. Here's what to expect and advice on the things you can do to stay happy and healthy.

Tests Every Postmenopausal Woman Should Do

Postmenopause can have its share of problems and health issues. Tests in time can help you diagnose conditions before it’s out of control. Let your health remain in your control.

The Menopause Belly Is Real - And It’s Not About Willpower

Here’s what I hear in my practice almost daily: “I’m doing everything the same as I always have, but the weight just keeps piling on around my middle. My jeans don’t fit. I look down and see this belly that wasn’t there before. What’s wrong with me?”

Resources

5 Women On Life After Menopause

Making specific self-care changes helped these women reclaim their bodies and their happiness.