The patient-doctor relationship is part of the healing process. This relationship requires both a “a good fit” and takes time to develop. Doctors need to listen to the patient’s story and understand that not all gynecological problems are diagnosed by ordering tests or doing procedures.
If you’re convinced that you’ll be tortured by hot flashes and temperature disruptions, then you certainly will be. But if you’re disciplined about taking the steps described, you’ll have non-medical tools to diminish the impact of the hot flashes.
May is National Mental Health Awareness Month. This one month of Mental Health Awareness helps to increase education, focus on cause and treatment, and encourages evaluation of those with symptoms that can be associated with mental illness.
Should you stop taking Proton Pump Inhibitor (PPI)? This commonly prescribed class of drugs has again been in the news this year with concerns raised about associations with dementia and renal (kidney) impairment. While PPI may promote the problems reported, they may also be more of a marker of other high-risk behaviors rather than the cause of the conditions discussed.
Women are now bombarded about the symptoms of menopause and the options for its management. Here is a lesson plan for a summer of reinvention, based on goals, age, current lifestyle, health issues, and interest in managing the symptoms of the often decade-long menopausal transition in a positive way.
There’s good news: New studies indicate that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy may provide drug-free management of the distressing hot flashes and night sweats that often occur after breast cancer treatment and during the menopausal transition.
The Husband and I love coming here every year at this time. We enjoy the peace and freedom from no longer having to entertain others for a long week. The weather is always perfect. The area where the house is located has been nicely maintained. The palm trees at the entrance are decorated with hundreds of tiny white lights. Our stress levels diminish as soon as we begin the two mile drive from the main road to our house.
If you have not begun to think about brain health, forty is the age to create a strategy that works for your life so that you can sustain cognitive function for the long haul.
The truth is that we can be better at managing everything else if we recharge our batteries with time for sexual intimacy. The “use it or lose it” mantra does apply here. At 40, put your sex life on the schedule and keep it there.
