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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have mixed feelings about this. Women shouldn’t be forced to suffer bc it’s normal. But the social expectation that women stay young and hot forever is harmful too—and it’s also reinforced by a lot of the same HRT/med spa marketing forces that are aimed at alleviating real suffering.

In my ideal world, we would make medicine available to women to alleviate their suffering but also accept that, if you’re lucky, you become an old crone. [/quote]

I resent your conflation of HRT and medspas. I take HRT. I have never had a procedure, an infejection, or anything associated with a medspa. I’ve read abstracts on pubmed and articles and the occasional study as a civilian. I’m not doing anything to fake my age, and I think your kind of post, and OPs, are also harmful. I support anyone who has life-limiting symptoms to talk to a sane and qualified physician.[/quote]

I agree with this. Pretty offensive to assume that all women seeking relief just want to look young again. What I see happening is that women turn to HRT for real relief from symptoms like major depression, anxiety, and insomnia. And then they find, when these things are under control, they actually have the energy to return to their exercise routine, etc.

The only thing that I’ve seen in terms of anti aging is that there’s a fun side effect that if you put a little bit of estrogen cream on your face, it can help your skin a little. But no one is promising a big transformation and let’s face it if that were true we wouldn’t see every celebrity over 35 getting major face lifts.

Vaginal estrogen is pretty magical in that it can actually reverse atrophy and tissue loss. I don’t see that as anti-aging, I just see that as returning to baseline. [b]I really don’t think we were meant to sit around while our vulva disappears and kills us from UTIs, which by the way is a major contributor to mortality in older women.[/b]

Some of the things that I’m seeing that is more MedSpa aren’t even having to do with hormones. There are things like creatine and collagen and other supplements. They are often sold by the same people telling HRT, but they’re not HRT. [/quote]

+1. The “bad” part of menopause is the physical symptoms (which are also part of aging but can be physically harmful, like vaginal atrophy, UTI, prolapse, osteoporosis).[/quote]

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