MENOPAUSE!???

“a couple years ago, whenever a patient came into the office with questions about a new product for menopause symptoms, Traci Kurtzer, MD, an ob-gyn at Northwestern Medicine’s Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause, would get excited and spend hours investigating it.

These days, she skips the deep dive. “So many products come out so quickly now, it’s just a fad-of-the-year thing,” says Dr. Kurtzer, who is also a clinical assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.

Ten-day, $4,800 hormone-balancing retreats! Supplements! Cooling pajamas! A $1,600 Goop summit featuring Gwyneth Paltrow! Red-light-therapy vibrators! Specialty hot chocolate promising “sweet relief for menopause”! In fact, between January 2020 and December 2023, hundreds of new products mentioned menopause on the label, with 86 percent marked for the beauty and personal care sector, according to Mintel, a global market intelligence agency. “

Right now I am sitting by my wonderful wife…I also endured her change…

1. Once in our other home, with a pool, at 2:00 A.M. I heard a person doing laps? At 2:00 am!!!
2. She would throw things…uh not really…but be angry for no reason at all..except for my jokes.
3. She would snap at the dogs for no reason.
4. She would again, go into the shower for 10 minutes?
5. If I told one of my bad jokes, she would cry for no reason.
6. All sex stopped.
7. I had to get psych help..because it was spreading to me….joke?
8. Finally when we hit 50 the agony stopped…
9. Now I get testy at a moments notice.
10. Oh No it is Happening to me!!!!