World Menopause Day

Eileen is the founder of lunarradiance.com and a regular advertiser at BWS. Just wanted to share her discount with everyone for World Menopause Day.

World Menopause Day is not a new event. It was started way back in 1984, though it is still relatively unheard of. Started by the International Menopause Society and the World Health Organization, World Menopause Day's original purpose was to bring increased awareness to menopause.

Menopause changes a woman's quality of life and more importantly puts her at increased risk for osteoporosis, breast cancer, heart disease, and stroke. Let's not forget hot flashes, night sweats, weight gain, depression, sleep problems, itchiness and a host of other symptoms that were once thought to be only "in the head" of the transitional woman. It is important to understand the risk factors associated with these conditions and how these conditions can be treated.
This once undiscussed topic has now come into focus and is open for discussion for more and more women with each other, and their physicians as well. Just Google "menopause" and you will find an abundance of websites and information.
In honor of World Menopause Day, Lunar Radiance is offering $5.00 off all wicking sleepwear purchases of $20.00 or more. NO PROMO CODE NEEDED!! We are doing our part to help you say "Nightie, night" to night sweats!!

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We have a holiday exclusively for us? Weeeeeeeell...YEHEY!!! When is this? Do we have a pin to wear? I must, must find a pin to wear and celebrate it happily. Afterall, I have a holiday celebrating a stage in my life. Raising a cup of coffee along with Anne and singing "Take my Sweat Awaaay" (to the tune of Take My Breath Away).

If you like holidays, then you'll love my recent column for Dotsie....

The Fact of the Matter is . . .

JJ, I truly believe you could find humor in just about anything. Not everything because you have good sense and class but in most things, you are a real nut!!!

Chatty shouts, "back you ravenous squirrels, get back...!!!!!

I surely did, JJ! I've just declared by own holiday...for the sleep deprived. I'm skiving work today. Insomnia ceases to be funny when one seeks sleep and cannot.

Oh you poor kid. I'm so sorry. I've never had that problem except when one of my kids were ill. I believe I could go to sleep standing up. I wish for you delicious slumber and wonderful dreams!

Lola, what's keeping you up at night? Anything in particular? How about a nice hot bath before bedtime? Might relax you and help you sleep better.

Thanks, JJ and Dotsie. I slept for over an hour this morning and managed a long siesta in the afternoon. I've caught up with much needed sleep.

Plain menopause, Dotsie. I've done everything in the manual which helps but...occasionally, it does'nt. And, when it does not, I simply take a day off from work so I can catch up on sleep.

Love your poem, Anne.

The funny thing is, my sisters who live in NYC and the South Pacific think I have a normal pattern of sleep...by their respective time zones. LOL!

I'm just glad I do not work with heavy machinery...or even fly a plane or any of that sort. Can you just imagine the threat I'd pose to the public? I'd be a fine babysitter though. I'd sleep when the child does. And...he better nap!

With as bad a case of sleep apnea as I have and thinking i slept soundly, I would actually fall asleep standing at the sink doing dishes. It was terrible. Once I took the sleep study test and found out the problem, I got a CPAP machine and was able to actually sleep spoundly and never fell asleep agsin standing up, geesh!

Sometimes I do have insomnia, I think we all might from time to time, and everything I've read says: If you don't fall asleep in the first half hour, get up, walk around, have some warm liquid (not caffeine) read awhile and then try again.

Lola, I get it. I sleep well 2-3 nights in a row and then miss 2-3 nights. I'm keeping a log, not that it will help, but I'm looking for a (great, I forgot the word).

I'm post-menopause and miss the menopause days. At least I could remember things.

I usually get by on 5 to 6-hour sleep when I am in London, Anne. But, I nap on the weekends when I am home.

I actually thought I have got my sleeping pattern down to pat, Saundra. Until fairly recently...it's similar to yours. I'd have nights which are fine and then, there are nights when I'd have only two hours of sleep. I get so physically sapped when those two-hour sleeptime come in succession. So, I just take home work so I can nap when sleep comes in the daytime. This menopause malarkey is such a bummer. I'm hot flushing/flashing as well. I was over all this business for a few months but, doggone it...iiiiiit's baaaaaack!

That's what I do, Chatty. I get up from bed and read until my eyes tire or, turn the telly on.

I am in a non sleeping period right now....it is so frustrating. I have been taking Tylenol PM to get me through so I can at least function at work. Along with that are a host of other symptoms..my body feels like a volcano heating on the inside with periodic eruptions. My hands and feet are hot, and my skin is itchy. Yuck!!

You're sleepless in NJ as well, Eileen? Yep. Went through that itchy skin immediately after my TAH/BSO. It was actually the first symptom that manifested surgical menopause. Aveeno lotion and E45 helped.

I'm on the pill for perimenopausal symptoms. I sleep well except for the week I'm on the blanks. Towards the end of that week I'm a little restless throughout the night.

This post is screaming hormonal imbalance!

Lola, what is E45? Wonder if we have it here in the states.

Hotflashgal, are you exercising? I think that helps.

E45 is an aqueous cream, Dotsie.

Lola,

I had a lot of trouble with sleeping with menopause related symptoms. I just mentioned to another "poster" that I now sleep like a baby using new sleepwear and that is it- and I love to tell everyone I can who can't sleep- goodnighties pajamas are the ticket. They are made with an ionization fabric that induces sleep. I thought it was hocus pocus- but it worked for me!

Ok.. Megchat -- I guess I'm following you!:) tee hee... It's my mission to help other women through this horrendous night sweat thing! OMG I was a wreck in every part of my life until I found Goodnighties...-- now I can cope... we need to ban together to tell others! Lisamomto4