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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok. Hear me out please.  I get night sweats.  I get hot flashes during the day.  I can’t sleep though the night.  I have facial hair.  I have belly fat.  I weigh about 10 lbs more lbs more than in my 20s.  My hair is naturally grey.  I have wrinkles.

Is this really all that bad?   Can’t it be a normal part of aging?

I mean. I pluck my facial hair.  I run to combat too much weight gain.  I get facials. I dye my hair.

But I don’t feel devastated that I’m experiencing  symptoms of older age because, well,  that’s just life.

When I get night sweats I kick off my blankets.  Is that really too much of an inconvenience? I mean when I had babies and they woke me up every 2 hours that was much much worse.

I just don’t really understand all the complaining about menopause?

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You’re the one saying other women are just “complaining.” You’re the one talking a lot about appearances (fat, wrinkles, gray hair).

I dunno, all the “acceptance” talk just makes me think women don’t actually value the contributions they make to their family or society or the economy. I don’t think it’s brave. I think it’s borne out of a lack of respect for self and others.

My eyes are going, their function is going/dying ahead of the rest of my body. I don’t think twice about wearing glasses. Why are my ovaries so different from my eyeballs?

Should non symptomatic women take hrt? That’s hard. I’ve been in excellent health my whole life with good diet and love of exercise. But my symptoms were bad enough to scare me even further into giving up alcohol permanently and sugar, changing my job to change my stress levels, and taking the time to try different doses of HRT and educate myself. Will women without symptoms do that extra work? Probably not. And should we be adding hormones to women who are obese, protein deficient, with metabolic disease? Probably yes, but that’s a much harder medical decision for a doc than giving hrt to someone that’s healthy or committed to making life changes to get healthy and be a good candidate for hrt over the long haul.

Am I inspired by your philosophical musings and others desires to be a witch in the woods? Omg no. Grow up now or never and find some non-selfish motivations for what you’re doing (other people, remember?) or else what’s the point of your self-appointed wisdom. [/quote]

Plus a million. Really good points to counter the OP and her sad gang who want to criticize and be btchy but pretend it’s from a place of feminism and support. It isn’t.[/quote]

+1000

That ain’t my brand of feminism.

As they say, my body, my choice. No blame, no shame. 
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