Menopause Your Way

[Toril]

I wonder if QVC will start on male issues because men do have a male menopause (andropause) ……. midlife crisis, buying sports cars, , viagra etc.

On second thoughts, QVC …… please don’t! Just concentrate on clothes, beauty etc etc and let the medical professionals deal with the menopause.

 

[Totally Loopy Lou]

I am with you, never had a rustle! Are we just very, very lucky?

Yes!!

I’ve definitely worn - esp Tesco own brand pads - which rustle as you walk!!
Too much cheapy plastic?!

Always Platinum (ridiculous I know!) which is too expensive is soft and ne’er a ruslte heard

TMI?! Sorry if so!

 

[Grizelda]

My friend wasn't allowed to get anything out of the fridge or prep food(???),shower orcwash her hair.

Old superstitions

 

[donna255]

Yes!!

I’ve definitely worn - esp Tesco own brand pads - which rustle as you walk!!
Too much cheapy plastic?!

Always Platinum (ridiculous I know!) which is too expensive is soft and ne’er a ruslte heard

TMI?! Sorry if so!

I use Sainsbury own brand as panty liners, they do normal and long.

 

[catzrcool]

I remember my granny telling me I shouldn't be having a bath when I was on my period. Thankfully my mum didn't think like that.

I had a hysterectomy early on in my life as I was so poorly every month. I had endometriosis and was full of painkillers just to get myself to school then work. They made me so very sick but I had to take them. Doctors at the hospital wouldn't do the operation as they couldn't guarantee they wouldn't damage my bladder and bowel. Everything inside me was sticking together. Anyway after years of pain a lady surgeon said she could do it. She told me to have faith in her, I believed her.

Husband was having fits as he had to sign a form basically saying we wouldn't sue if anything was damaged.

Anyway thankfully all went well. I went straight into the menopause and hospital said I couldn't have any HRT as my granny had died of breast cancer. So basically was told to suck it up. But after all the years of pain the menopause was nothing. I know some people have bad problems, but I don't think shopping channels should be interfering with it at all. They just want to make money out of women's suffering. It's so wrong.

I have never regretted having the operation and although I couldn't ever have kids, my niece and nephew are wonderful and I love them dearly. They are like my own.

So sadly when I see men wanting to be women, I feel that they have no idea what being female is really like and they will never know and I don't think for a moment they would want the pain I had and the operation I had to have, they only want the nice bits that go with being a woman. Sorry this is a bit of an essay, but sometimes this gender thing and menopause stuff does my head in.

 

[stratobuddy]

I use Sainsbury own brand as panty liners, they do normal and long.

If they were for men, OF COURSE they would ALL buy long

 

[Grizelda]

I remember my granny telling me I shouldn't be having a bath when I was on my period. Thankfully my mum didn't think like that.

I had a hysterectomy early on in my life as I was so poorly every month. I had endometriosis and was full of painkillers just to get myself to school then work. They made me so very sick but I had to take them. Doctors at the hospital wouldn't do the operation as they couldn't guarantee they wouldn't damage my bladder and bowel. Everything inside me was sticking together. Anyway after years of pain a lady surgeon said she could do it. She told me to have faith in her, I believed her.

Husband was having fits as he had to sign a form basically saying we wouldn't sue if anything was damaged.

Anyway thankfully all went well. I went straight into the menopause and hospital said I couldn't have any HRT as my granny had died of breast cancer. So basically was told to suck it up. But after all the years of pain the menopause was nothing. I know some people have bad problems, but I don't think shopping channels should be interfering with it at all. They just want to make money out of women's suffering. It's so wrong.

I have never regretted having the operation and although I couldn't ever have kids, my niece and nephew are wonderful and I love them dearly. They are like my own.

So sadly when I see men wanting to be women, I feel that they have no idea what being female is really like and they will never know and I don't think for a moment they would want the pain I had and the operation I had to have, they only want the nice bits that go with being a woman. Sorry this is a bit of an essay, but sometimes this gender thing and menopause stuff does my head in.

QVC only operate to make money. No emotion is involved. And I am certain that men who have had a sex change operation can never understand or experience what it is to be female.

 

[Grizelda]

If they were for men, OF COURSE they would ALL buy long

Even if they really needed short or extra short!!

 

[stratobuddy]

Even if they really needed short or extra short!!

Exactly

 

[mina]

You could always cut to size so no shame involved. They need only do large in that case.

 

[Patsy]

I quite literally do not.

 

[May]

I didn't see it. I'm glad. I think it would have made me fume. I don't think anyone's being a prude by finding all of this distasteful.

Yeah I was just so shocked … such an intimate bodily function and certainly not something you discuss In front of a male presenter whilst the female model is standing there in her underwear

 

[May]

On tv too ! ( I meant to add )

 

[Battiola73]

Oh joy and bliddy bliss, 2 hours of menopause my way. Then if that’s not enough it’s continuing on Arsebook after that. I expect Lamellar Cleever will be on.

 

[Grizelda]

Oh joy and bliddy bliss, 2 hours of menopause my way. Then if that’s not enough it’s continuing on Arsebook after that. I expect Lamellar Cleever will be on.

They are money grubbers and Cleaver is one if the worst imo.

 

[Battiola73]

Just saw a joke. What do middle aged chickens suffer with? Henopause. Well it made me titter.

 

[Patsy]

Just saw a joke. What do middle aged chickens suffer with? Henopause. Well it made me titter.

I got the cartoon from my neighbour on WhatsApp.

 

[Brissles]

Hells bells, load of budgies twittering away on the sofa talking about "pads". How times have changed when my gran in her pinny with folded arms, would just mouth the word "change". If today's generation are suffering with whatever the perimenopause is, I wonder if a lot of the symptoms can be placed at the door of all the stuff put in their bodies, like botox, fillers, HRT, the pill - because it all appears to be exacerbated than ever before. All the above are manufactured, so who knows ?

 

[Battiola73]

I know it’s difficult to get a doctor’s appointment. If you are really suffering with the the menopause, peri- & post- too, a GPs advice/medication is better. QVC and their brands are in it for one thing. MONEY.

 

[Clothescloth]

I see it’s Pippa’s turn to wear the comedy glasses!! Changed channel as soon as I saw the word menopause. One day last week I inadvertently watched some of the menopause show. I was doing some baking in the kitchen, and half watching the morning show. Without realising, the top of the hour came, and on came menopause your way. I’d left the tv remote on the kitchen table and couldn’t be bothered to walk over to fetch it. Pippa is sat with a ‘panel’ most of who looked too young for the menopause, so just sat nodding wisely. ‘I’m nine years into my peri menopause!’ shrieked Pippa (WHAT??) Admiring looks from her coven. Then she says something about the days when her hormones are ‘raging’. That all ties in nicely with the overpriced supliments she’s flogging. Next comes some sort of heated pad. Apparently since she’s heading into the menopause, she suffers with the most painful and debilitating periods, and needs to sit with a hot water bottle on her stomach,which again ties in nicely with the flogging of the heated pad thing. More admiration from the coven. The next guest appears remotely on the screen behind her, flogging what looks like a cross between a mini pad and an instrument of torture, which when worn against your undercarriage, appears to administer electric shocks to the nether regions. In time, this will stop you pi££ing yourself. None of the panel admits to having this particular problem, not even Pippa herself! At this point I suddenly could be bothered to walk across the kitchen to retrieve the remote, and watched a repeat of Homes under the Hammer instead.