Is This Menopause?

Pick the Journey!
It's your body!
It's your life!

It's your choice!

Did your mother tell you about the birds and bees?
Do you have to enter this new journey in the dark? NO!
Reading, studying, and with some help of others you can learn that this is "NO BIG DEAL" Estrogen was first discovered in 1926. What about the women before that? Every woman will journey down this road. Now doesn't that make you feel better? I hope so! I want to personally tell you how scared I became.NO NOT ME!Yes, YOU!Then realization set in, it took a year. Not knowing what is going to happen to you can put all kinds of things in your mind. And yes my husband was the first to know, the first to notice the changes. The physical migraine headaches, severe uterine cramps, painful breasts, water retention, easy weight gain, hot flashes, osteoporosis, broken hips and more. The emotional problems of hopelessness, frustration, irritability, extreme sensitivity, panic, PMS, anxiety, depression and mood swings. "AN EMOTIONAL ROLLER COASTER"

THERE IS HELP!

Exercises to prepare for your mammogram:

  1. Refrigerate two bookends overnight. Lay one of your breastas (either will do) between the two bookends and smash the bookends together as hard as you can. Repeat three times daily.
  2. Locate a pasta maker or old wringer washer. Feed the breast into the machine and start cranking Repeat twice daily.
  3. (Advanced) Situate yourself comfortably on your side on the garage floor. Place one of your breasts snugly behind the rear tire of the family vehicle. When you give the signal, hubby will slowly ease the car into reverse. Hold for five seconds. Repeat on the other side.
  4. Put right breast in a vice. Hold breath for 5 seconds and release. Then repeat on left breast.
After these exercises you should be well prepared for the real experience of the mammogram. Be sure to do this each year prior to your appointment if you have not kept up the routine!
Taken from "And How Are We Feeling Today?" by Kathryn Hammer published by Contemporary Books.