I'm a baby boomer back to school at 60 working on my doctoral dissertation. I'm conducting a research project that might have interesting insight to women's human sexual response cycle.

If you know a post-menopausal baby boomer (1946-1964) please have them access my on-line anonymous question. Thank you. http://tinyurl.com/brjqy8

Good for you for going back to school at 60. I keep hearing more and more about boomers going back to school. I love the idea of intergenerational classes. Young and old (not that we're old) have so much to learn from one another.

Can't take the survey. Not post menopausal yet. I feel left out. Is that a good thing?

Don't feel bad Dotsie, I am post-menopausal but too old to be a boomer, yet again!!!

I believe peri-menopausal women should prepare themselves for menopause by getting a dexa-scan (bone-density) and having hormonal levels checked. If you decide to have these tests done post-menopause you will need a marker so that your numbers are not being compared to other women but your own levels pre- menopause.

Well at least when you go through menopause you will have a forum filled with women who will offer advice. Great forum!

I'm not sure I believe all the bone density stuff. I understand that women are being diagnosed with porous bones, then being prescribed medication that supposedly makes them denser, but the dense bone isn't any stronger, so just as breakable.

Bone density is complicated stuff. Osteopenia is the new word for women who have lost a lot of estrogen just following menopause. They had to coin this new word because of the high tech machinery that has noted finer changes. Thank goodness for Osteopenia, if you had high estrogen levels that is a marker for women who are more likely to get breast cancer. We can't seem to win this game of a healthy life.

There is actually a very small % of women that get severe osteoporosis, the kind that is usually inherited. But for the rest of us there is eating well and some herbal remedies. Until I get another dexa scan done in three months I really don't want to mention the name of the product I use. After the first year of using it the reports came back, 'keep using the medicines you have been prescribed, they are working" Well I never took the Fosomax but this non-prescript one. But it has been several years and I want to be tested again and then I will share my results.

Susana

I agree. I should have a bone density test now so I can compare it in a few years. Good advice.

Hope you'll share what you're using if you have good results. Wondering if it's FDA approved...

I am almost certain it is not FDA approved, most herbal remedies are not. The expense and hoops they make you jump through is outrageous and the pharmaceutical companies have turned this into a political game. They had to change the content of their website because the FDA made them take out all the studies done in China.

Most certainly will give you more details and name after my dexa-scan.
Susana

Thanks Susana.

Please go and read my latest blog WEIRD TV ADS, if you want to know how useful the FDA is when licensing products and refusing others. Follow the MONEY trail...

Chatty lady I enjoyed reading your blog on WEIRD TV ADS. You mention 'more fun', not always. I wrote a polemic on PED's (penile enhancement drugs) several years ago when there was only one tiny psychological study done in New Zealand. Bottom line, men ingest this drug, women are impacted by it - literally. After the pharmaceutical companies realized only 50% of all prescriptions were being refilled, and only then, did they start studying women's responses in the U.S.

Hopefully this will be the last week my survey will be posted. I am still in need of responses, they have been slow in coming. The sampling size is small but I'm hoping the data is rich in content and supports my hypotheses.
Thank you to all women who have taken the time to respond and/or passed it on to other women.
Susana

Ladies, if you know soemone who might be interested in answering, feel free to pass this link on to friends.

Thanks for reading my blog Panasusana, I appreciate that.
I would love to take part in the survey but with the restricted age limit it makes it impossible. We older gals are a good market as well don't you think? Especially since women are living into their late 80's and 90's and are still vital and active. My mom's will be 89 this coming April 9th. lives alone, drives, goes dancing and dates.
Like she told my sister about sex, "I ain't dead yet!"

Sorry Chatty Lady, had to restrict age for several reasons. Primarily, it is a tiny study, also the impact of historical context of women and the sexual revolution of the 60&70's. there were a lot of restrictions that probably would have been dealt with differently if my numbers were higher.

BTW, my branding is The Ageless Sex Life, hopefully within the next month or so I will have a website on line geared to everything to do with ageless sexuality. I live part of the year with my chosen mom, we adopted each other 6 years ago and now she is 92. At 89 and widowed she found a new love after 64 years of marriage. I taught her to Zydeco dance at 88, unfortunately still drives (I've asked her to limit this to the compound she lives in when in Florida). I learned this year age is but a number when I turned 60.

I do agree, sexual expression doesn't stop it changes. And from listening to a lot of stories, it gets better. More about the journey then the goal of expressing oneself sexually. All about sexual prime not genital prime - terms coined by David Scharch, "Passionate Marriage" - great book.

Enjoy!

I can't wait to read your study results. Boomers have made changes to every life stage we've entered. We're doing it again with our sex lives. Go figure. No surprise here since we were children of the 60s and 70s.

I look forward to seeing your site. Please keep us posted.

Ladies today, May 5th is the last day I shall be collecting data. So if you know any women who might be interested please pass on this information.

I want to thank all you women who have participated or sent this message to others. Much appreciated.

Susana