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According
to my physician Dr Katty, very rarely women have difficult or challenging time
during on-set of menopause to the extend that she cannot handle the process and
spiral out of control psychologically and physically.
Well
I am one of them. HRT or Hormone Replacement Therapy has been in place with
initial smaller dosage has been increase double but yet the burning BBQ
sensation, feverish feel are almost 24 hours a day experience. You may on full
blast the air-conditioning but all you cool is your skin but not the inside
oven like heat that make you tear out your hair and run for cold showers every
3 to 4 hours a day.
Targeting
a peaceful night sleep is my everyday objective. Many of the techniques that I
employed will be read until your eyelid has no more energy to hold it up and
sleep meditation; of course pray to GOD to come to your rescue and bring peace
to your sleep.
Not
only menopause deprived me of my wonderful sleep nightly, it too decided to
make my heart beat in a angry and fast manner. I fell my heart will pop out
from my chest anytime. With the double dosage of HRT, luckily my heart go back
to it normal function of beating softly.
Suddenly
one morning, I felt my neck is stiff, my head is heavy and pounding and the
room seems to move like the earth on obit. Ending up in the hospital with blood
pressure 180/98, the doctor quickly put me on a small dosage of hypertension
medication which he assured me that with proper rest, cool my mind and body I
should be out and going in 5 days time.
Hypertension
is a word that worried most people and according to the doctor 30% of Malaysia
population are living with hypertension. Again I am worried and went for ECG
and more test. Even though all the tests signed me a clean bill of health but
somehow I don’t really fell well.
We
now tend to run through the internet for facial product, cream, lotion and
ampoule to make the skin smoother and supple. We loom at the mirror everyday to
check on wrinkles and drop of the cheeck. We run though the kitchen for quick
DIY on heal the skin the natural way.
Psychologically
I am sensitive, you know too emotional and jump to conclusion in less then one
second and create volcano eruption in the family. Again I design method to calm
the mind by having meditation, qigong, gardening, tons of reading and of course
pray to GOD that hold my hand and please let this phase quickly be gone and done
with.
It
is pretty frightening that no one doctor that
can diagnosed menopause and can advice the patient of what to expect next but
always what already happened and how to mend it. Malaysia women has taken
menopause lightly as most of us see our mother and we fell that our mother went
though it without much funfare and
we
should too. We women rarely wanted to talk about it and take it as part and
parcel of aging and life. If we women wanted a better and quality life ; a good
and effective program should be in place for us to aged with comfort and
confident.
