World Menopause Day 18th October 2022

[jimeka]

How does the menopause affect your ms?

World Menopause Day is held every year on 18 October, to raise awareness, break the stigma and highlight the support options available for improving health and wellbeing.Menopause is not just a gender or age issue; it is an organisational issue.  It can impact on colleagues both directly or indirectly. Awareness on this topic is fundamental and reducing the stigma attached to it is vital so that more people will talk openly about it so it can begin to be normalised and people can get the support they need. NHS Employers continues to highlight the importance of this topic and continue to support organisations so they can improve staff experience.   

[Sandydemop]

thanks jimeka this is such a valuable and under represented topic! I don't get why there should be a stigma to this. If we live long enough it happens to 50% of the world's population. I think it's because it's a "women's issue." For me, I had early menopause, age 41. Before i was diagnosed.

[Kit10]

I don't know, they seem to have happened simultaneously. Ask me again in a couple of years .

[falalalala]

It didn't affect my MS at all, just my loved ones.🤣

[jimeka in reply to falalalala]

😂🤣😂🤣

[falalalala in reply to jimeka]

I once saw a therapy pig walk by with it's handler at the exact moment my sister was whining about hot flashes making her "sweat like a pig"😂😂😂😂

Yes, I laughed at her misery😜

[jimeka in reply to falalalala]

I went through it 3x. Once naturally, 2x by hormone intervention, what the doctors will do to try and keep you normal. They finally stopped intervening by giving me a hysterectomy now my family can laugh at me knowing it’s the ms not the hormones 😂🤣

[falalalala in reply to jimeka]

It's good to have clarification.🤪

[jimeka in reply to falalalala]

That’s one thing ms has given me 👍😂🤣

[Kenu]

My grandma and mother never went thur menopause 🤷‍♂️ Grandma passed away at 103 and my mom at 93 and on the pill 😱

[Sandydemop in reply to Kenu]

are you saying they were still menstruating into old age?

[NorasMom]

My family's weird but apparently very lucky. For several generations now, our monthly cycle stops and we just go on the way we were before. No side effects or noticeable changes to anything.