"..???..ya might wanna explain that one over the phone"
Well that explains i....
Wait, what were we talking about? (And here I thought is was the Chardonnay)
The 40s and 50s are when many people peak in their careers. I wonder if menopause-related cognitive decline could explain why women are “under-represented” at the top of many professions. Of couse, even asking this question is very un-PC. According to the article, the cognitive decline can be treated with estrogen, which is good news.
When any given individual in any mammalian species ceases to be fertile, nature has a way of saying goodbye.
I went with my wife to see “Menopause”, and while I wasn’t looking forward to it (I figured it would be a strictly man-bashing thing) I was pleasantly surprised to find it really wasn’t.
I found it humorous, because there is a scene where a high-powered professional woman has her mind go completely blank, her eyes and her face go completely empty!
It was funny to me, because I work with a woman who is a close friend, a few years older than me, and we were in an important meeting one day. I was sitting across the table from her in this big meeting, and someone asked her a question. As I watched her face as she prepared to answer, I saw that look that actress in “Menopause” had...
She opened her mouth to speak, and as if a switch had been turned off, her mouth froze, her bright blue eyes suddenly became completely vacant, and she had the appearance of a PC that was in need of a reboot!
Like a fish out of water, her mouth twitched a little, opened a little like she was going to say something, closed, opened again, then she shook her head and said quickly “Could you repeat that question?”
I don’t think anyone noticed but me, but when I saw “Menopause” some years later, the look was exactly the same that my friend had on her face!
I told her about it, and the funny thing was, she remembered that incident perfectly, and was amazed that I did too. She rolled her eyes,and admitted in retrospect she thought it was pretty funny! She said her mind went completely blank in mid thought.
Sigh. At least women have something to blame it on. That happens to me all the time, and I just have to blame it on me.
A simple estrogen patch applied every three days should clear this up.
“60 percent of women go through menopause-related cognitive impairment”
I thought that menopause hit women a lot later than their first year of college (particularly the private ones, where they live on campus).
Really wonder how long in hunter/gatherer clans women who did not have children and were no longer fertile survived. If they did, suspect they were little more than slaves. Well given the embrace of feminism, which at its core is an anti fertility cult, and the actual scarcity of live births especially among young white women, look to the past and the future will become clear.
Any male divorcee in his 40's or 50's already knew this and didn't need a doctor to tell us this.
In addition to brain fog from menopause there is “fibro fog” from stress and fibromyalgia. I bet they are all linked. Thyroid and epstein barr virus (which many many people have) are also culprits.
I blame mine on stress. The more stress the more we are easily distracted by what is stressful. Concentration is really hard...focus focus focus. As I procrastinate
"..???..ya might wanna explain that one over the phone"
I sense a push for more prescription drugs coming.
I had a real problem word-finding during menopause.
How bad?
When I was done and things were much better, my supervisor and some of my co-workers half-joked that they thought they would have to start me on Aricept (an Alzheimer drug). But they thought since I DID find my way to work every day, that it was better to just do watchful waiting. LOL
Now I occasionally cannot find a word, and need to substitute. I can always find it eventually and I am much more alert and less foggy. I did go on estradiol for a few years. Miss it terribly. People stopped saying how I looked 15 years younger than my age about three years after I stopped.
Vain? Me? Absolutely!
It’s weird that it’s not called Womenopause.