Menopause - helpful links
Things your husband wants to know, too.

Note: Links were checked on 1-11-2000 using FrontPage's Verification Tool.
Any link with "???" before it wasn't found at that time.
(but that may have been a temporary phenomenon...)

General links for information and support

Interesting and instructional pages

Male menopause, or Andropause

 

If you are married, your husband inevitably has to deal with the changes in your personality which occur during each the month because of hormonal fluctuations. Some women have an extremely hard time during pregnancy, and many have postpartum depression or "the baby blues" which can last from a few weeks to a year, or in some cases never quite goes away. If you experience pre-menstrual mood swings and have difficult menses with physical discomfort such as uterine cramps or bloating, then your husband knows there are days when you are not easy to get along with, and "bitchy" is usually an accurate description of your attitude.

Menopause can be especially hard to deal with, partly because it's not "expected" the way a period or a baby is. You might not realize your hormones are re-balancing until your periods start being unpredictable, and by then you might have had severe emotional distress but you couldn't figure out why. The first hot flash can be very frightening if you don't expect it and is never comfortable, although some women think of it as a Power Surge rather than as an internal thermostat re-setting itself. Your husband can be sympathetic and generally very understanding, but the Change of Life can often seem like a Change of Wife. Unfortunately, sometimes the marriage dissolves during all the turmoil.

My husband has searched for websites which give helpful advice and insight for the husband of a menopausal woman. He found mostly stupid jokes about men and comments from some women [liberated???] who rejoice that men feel uncomfortable around bitchy and "cold" women. Try it yourself: do a search for "menopause" and then search those pages for the word "husband." The Fifty Jokes About Men are all over the place, but there's precious little REAL advice for husbands who care very much about their wives and the physical and emotional distress that this change of life often produces.

I've looked for sites with some kind of positive information for husbands and I couldn't find very much. Most of the ones I did find are about Male Menopause and Impotence, and I've included links to several of them.

If you know of any sites which offer good advice or counsel for husbands,
or if you can offer some helpful comments of your own,
please send e-mail so I can include them.

General links for information and support:

Power Surge
A Virtual Community For Women In Meno-Morphosis
[has background music]

Menopause Matters
We seek to empower women to make conscious decisions about health, by disseminating state of the art information on the treatment of problems arising at menopause.

Menopause: Another Change in Life - from Planned Parenthood Federation of America
choose Women's Health - Women's Health [again] - Menopause

Womens Health - Menopause
Topics: Symptoms of menopause, Hormone Replacement Therapy

Birthing The Crone
Menopause and Aging through an Artist's Eyes

 

Interesting and instructional pages:

??? - Natural Solutions Newsletter
Transitions For Health, Inc. - The Menopause Link
with Terry Norton of The Red Hot Mamas support group

??? - Health & Science Testimonial From Barbara Agle
Natural Progesterone Cream Information

??? - Health & Science Testimonial From Barbara Agle - different site, same letter
Progesterone & Women's Health - A Guide to Understanding & Controlling
Menopause, PMS, Fertility, & Osteoporosis

Menopause
What to expect - with pictures and diagrams

Menopause: For some, it's business as usual
by Susan Reimer - "I AM A WOMAN OF A certain age..."

??? - Confronting the Big "M" and talking about it
by Beth Francis - "Menopause becomes the topic of the moment as more women reach that age of 'the changes'..."

??? - Natural Progesterone, Endometriosis, Osteoporosis, PMS, Menopause, Fybrocystic Breasts, Cramping, Bloating, Depression, Hot Flashes, Yam Cream, Dr John Lee
Natural Progesterone Testimonials

Do you suffer from PMS ? I Don't Anymore Find Out Why !
Staywell Vitamins
"Here are two products that I have found are very helpful for my PMS..."

Is This Menopause?
"Is all natural vitamins and herbs the best way for you?
With HRT you have risks. If you don't take HRT you have risks."

Do you PMS so bad every month your husband and kids think you have turned into a monster!
Progesterone Plus - All Natural Progesterone - "All without any side effects ! ! "

There’s new hope for women with postpartum blues
American Psychological Association

 

Male menopause - a relatively new term
there's lots of debate about whether it's a normal hormonal change
or normal mid-life psychological re-adjustment [might be both]

??? - Menopause and man
"I strongly believe that men go through the stage in their life that has an effect on them, same as a woman..."

Word Hoard: Andropause
World Wide Words

Male Menopause - fact or fiction?
by Dr Malcolm Carruthers, MD, FRCPath, MRCGP

??? - Andropause - from the Men's Equity Network
"Dr Malcolm Carruthers, Consultant Andrologist and a specialist in men's health, has been carrying out research for the past 20 years on the key role of testosterone in keeping men healthy, happy and sexually active from his clinic in London's Harley Street. He has produced a new book titled "Maximising Manhood : Beating the Male Menopause" (Harper Collins, London) in which he summarises the remarkable success of his clinical work."

Dr. J. Soltanoff, Woodstock West Hurley Ulster Catskills
"Do men as well as women go through change of life symptoms? "

MenWeb-Top Ten Warning Signs of Male Menopause
Information from Jed Diamond, author of Male Menopause, plus other articles

Impotence
"The symptoms of male menopause are not as overwhelming as the wholesale changes women experience, and male menopause does not affect all men..."

??? - HealthLink Articles - Impotence
Article by Dr. Zoltan P. Rona MD MSc - "Impotence (erectile dysfunction) affects an estimated 20 million men in North America and is usually defined as the inability to have penile erections sufficient for intercourse..."

??? - Impotence in the male
by Dr Peter H C Lim, AM, MBBS, MMed(Surgery), D.Urol(Lond)., Head & Senior Consultant Urological Surgeon, Division of Urology, Toa Payoh Hospital.

Hormones may help middle-age men, too
"For some men, however, testosterone pills, injections or patches can make a difference..."

Testosterone Supplements for Andropausal Men of No Benefit
"It may be fashionable to give andropausal men testosterone supplements, write Drs Gingell and Burns-Cox, but there is no convincing evidence that such treatment will alleviate their symptoms and may, in fact, be potentially dangerous..."

 

 

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