Women only please reply-if a cure for menopause is discovered would you take it?

You know my post where I believe that it must be made a crime to do tubal ligations & vasectomies. Sex change mutilations are the worst abominations.
I as you know support birth control such as pills, condoms & the Rhythm Method & am pro-choice on abortion. Science must be about raising fertility & support IVF, etc. This topic is for women only & it's about curing menopause. If a cure is discovered for menopause, then would you women take it Please give views.

 

What symptoms are you having?? I wonder if I'm going through preMenaopause symptoms---and then I wonder if I'm simply going crazy.

I am horrible at being responsible with my birth control--and ultimately it will be a relief not to worry about having a baby at 48. But I worry about bone density after menopause--I'm pretty small boned. Will probably look into hormone replacement.

 

The idea is that when a girl is 12 years old & has her first period, it's often a frightening experience for her. Yet after a woman is 50 & has her last period, she misses this. Menopause is old age. Yes, most people want to have kids when they want to but they don't want to lose the ability to have them. A woman would like to look like how she was when she was 25 years old until she dies. A woman finds the monthly times a pain but when they're gone, then she misses them.

 

Bulldust she does - not every woman is upset by menopause -many are relieved

There is a REASON for menopause - the eggs themselves start to age and more and more errors occur which is why there is a greater risk of genetic anomalieshttp://php.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php?title=Genetic_risk_maternal_age

Plus reproduction at an older age carries much much much higher risks for women - google up "elderly primipara"

 

i'f you're going, it's gonna be a short trip.

(j/k, you know i <3 you. now could you put that knife down please?)

it probably would be a good idea to watch that stuff. there's been a blitz of radio ads for OTC low testosterone pills for older men, maybe there's a female version? (i just haven't been paying attention to those ads)

 

And how exactly do you know what a woman wants? Or misses?

 

Because menopause is old age-the crone years. A cure for menopause has not been found & yes, menopause is normal. What would answer this is if a cure is discovered for menopause-there would be many women taking the cure, not all but enough would. For men if a cure were found for old age where a man would look the same way as he did when he was 25 years od, many men would take this. So no surprise if it turns out many women would take menopause cure if it were discovered as menopause is old age or the crone years.

 

Menopause is NOT necessarily old age.

 

Yes it is because a woman fertile years have passed. Early menopause can sometimes happen such as if a woman has had a disease & the medicines cause menopause, then that would be getting old early. Menopause, wrinkles (both men & women) & white hairs (both men & women) are old age. Finding a cure for menopause if it ever is discovered would be reversing the aging process. Finally, young is the first 30 years of life. After 30, it's old & older. When people turn 40, they're old enough to become grandparents for the first time (yes people can become grandparents @ 36 but using 40 as best eg.). 40 is old.

 

Menopause is not a disease so there will never be a cure for such a thing. If a woman who is post-menopausal wants a child well she will have to do what this one sixty year old woman did to have a child, invitro fertilization. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/woman-birth-1st-time-age-61-twins-article-1.1193666

I can't imagine why anyone would want to have a child past 40-45 though as children born around this time in life are much more prone to down syndrome and late age pregnancy is much more risky than pregnancy for a younger woman.

Also for women who have already had their fair share of children, for example my mother, she has decided she is quite finished with raising kids and as she is still raising my youngest brother who just turned 16 and she is 50 she has admitted that she is even tired of being a parent.

 

If you are relieved because of your period, then you are not responsible during sex. plus, I don't trust anything that bleeds for a week and doesn't die.

 

I'm almost fifty and have an 11 and 13 year old still in the home. When they are out---my husband and I will be doing a lot of adjusting.

 

A "cure" for menopause?....you say that like it's a disease.

You bleed once a month for 40 years or so and then suggest it's bad when it stops.

Women today make a huge big deal out of it....they blame everything under the sun on their periods....and then everything else on MENOPAUSE. My Mother went through menopause and never felt like she had to run to the doctors over it.....and never did. It's as natural as child birth. I'm 48....it hasn't started yet but I will be (*)(*)(*)(*) glad when it does and I'm done.

 

OMG...God Bless you......I'm 48 and my baby just turned 19. I planned that.....no kids after 30.

 

Some people experience it differently I suppose. My mom just said she's had enough, she's raised the three of us, dealt with all our teenage BS (and now my 16 year old brother gets to back-talking and saying nasty things to her) and she's just ready to be done. lol

 

Heck, I can totally understand. My husband and I actually have it MUCH easier then when we were raising our boys (now 28 and 29). Our younger two are in a stable environment (one mom and one dad as opposed to mom, stepmom, step dads(several), chaos, tension and court custady fights). It has been an education for me on the difference---for the experience of the kids. We had a hard time raising the two boy amongst all the craziness. Bad grades, back talking, manipulation etc.

Our younger ones have been a joy to raise as we have control over the process and its been healthy for them. Hard to explain...hopefully you will get the jest. But--my girl has gotten a mouth---that is a fact.

 

In none of my posts did I write that menopause is a disease. Menopause is natural & normal-but it's a woman's crone years. Finding a cure for menopause if it's discovered would be finding youth. That's what curing menopause is-reversing old age.

 

Well then you'd just have to reverse old age in general. As a woman I am comfortable with and accept the fact that I will experience menopause someday and even look forward to not having a period ever again (so tired of those occasional surprise periods with vomit-inducing pain! But not looking forward to hot flashes.) We all get old and age and eventually die. Nothing wrong with it, it's just a fact of life. If you do find the Fountain of Youth though do please share with the rest of us.

 

Pasithea, finding a cure for old age is the main idea of my post to finding a cure for menopause. Menopause is just 1. For men, if a cure for male patterned baldness is found, many bald men would take this though baldness is normal. Yes, old age such as wrinkles, white hairs, menopause are normal. But if a cure for old age which again includes menopause is discovered, many to most people would take the cure because it's youth that most people want.

 

Menopause doesn't cause old age...just as baldness doesn't cause old age....

....old age causes old age...and there's only one cure for that....

 

Menopause is a sign of old age-again it's the crone years. Youth is the first 30 years of life. From then on, it's getting older. If a woman has suffered cancer, then it's possible the cancer medicines could cause menopause or early aging. Main point is menopause is getting old because a woman can't get pregnant anymore. Menopause is old age and finding a cure for menopause, wrinkles, white hairs, and so on is finding youth.

 

Nope, all humans grow older, even men, who don't go through menopause.

There is no fountain of youth, no miracles, no anti-aging drugs....as time passes all humans grow older...or die.

And "old" is in the eye of the beholder....if a woman goes through menopause at 45 YOU may think she's old but 70-year-olds think she's a young pup. SHE may think she's young....your definition of old isn't the law.

 

Of course there is no cure for aging. Old age happens and is normal and natural. But finding a cure for old age would be a nice thing. A 40 year old is old enough to be a grandparent, so 40 is old. It's truth that the 1st 30 years of life is what has the most impact in life, good or bad-the 1st 30 years of life is the novel. Yes 70 is older than 45, but 45 is older than 25 & a 45 year old is old enough to be a 25 year old's mom or dad. Finding a cure for menopause, old age and making people look like how they did when they were 25 makes it better. After a man turns 36, he is too old to be accepted into the military as 35 is the last year he can join.

 

Male pattern baldness is not a symptom of old age. My 22 year old cousin is almost completely bald now. Most MPB is caused by genetics and testosterone being converted to DHT. The same way you inherit eye color, you can inherit MPB.

 

Yes Wolfsgirl, male patterned baldness can start as early as teens and there are bald 20 year olds. Most men lose 30% of their hair (thickness) & most 35 year old men will have less hair on their head vs. when they were 15 years old. Most men will have thinning hair in life, so hair loss in men is a sign of old age. Menopause in women usually starts @ 50 though it could start as early as late 40s. Menopause is a sign of old age, so they should find cure for this and find a cure for old age.